boras smith has lips the size of michelin tires. then the floodgates open with the new york times report showing emails of gruden using offensive language to assault commissioner roger goodell, also calling the league s first openly player michael sam a queer, panning the hiring of female referees and mocking league efforts to reduce concussions. it wasn t just something that crossed his mind, which is bad, but that he then took that thought, formalized it in a writing and hit send. people say all sorts of things sort of on the cuff that they shouldn t. this is more than that. reporter: according to the times, gruden also exchanged email photos with other men showing women only wearing bikini bottoms, including nfl cheerleaders. in his statement the league slammed gruden s actions calling them appalling, abhorrent and
while gruden was an analyst for espn. and last week, it was learned gruden used a racist trope to describe demaurice smith in a 2011 email writing that i has lips the seize of might be lynn tire measure lin might be lin tires. and he also called michael sam a queer, disparaging players who protested during the national anthem, panning the hiring of female referees and mocking league efforts to reduce concussions. it wasn t just something that crossed his mind, but he formalized it in a writing and hit send. people say all sorts of things sort of on the cuff that they shouldn t. this is more than that. reporter: according to the times, gruden also exchanged
Marquis Lupton was tired of what he was seeing, and what he wasnât seeing. Lupton, 37, of Lancaster, was working as a broadcast news reporter in Atlantic City and Philadelphia when he found himself covering stories that often skewed to the negative side of the Black and Brown communities. âI was pulled off a bunch of great human interest stories to cover another fire, another shooting, another police involved incident, and the majority of the time I was covering men that looked like me,â Lupton says.
Lupton says often, when heâd pitch positive stories about the Black community to his editors, heâd receive replies like, âWeâll get to those kinds of stories during Black History Month.â
their demands in writing, e-mailed them, hit send, to the richest man in the world. he s going to get fired hoe owns the company. now you he owns the company. now you have journalists, ronan farrow, who said, i and at least one other prominent journalist involved in breaking stories about the national enquirer s arrangement with trump, meaning the catch-and-kill arrangement, fielded similar stop digging or we ll ruin you emails from ami. did not engage as i do not cut deals with subjects of ongoing reportin repo reporting. he got a reply from the former a.p. editor who says, we were warned explicitly by insiders, his name is ted beardis, ami hired investigators to dig into the backgrounds of a.p. journalists looking into the tabloid s efforts on behalf of trump. never saw evidence of this either way, and it didn t stopt our reporting.
i m a bser, that s what i do. i can understand him mournting that for the defense for the things he was saying publicly. what it begs for me as a lawyer is the question of why go under oath when called before a congressional committee or the grand jury for mueller, why say something that s clearly at odds with the paper trail? what insight do you have on that? that s what s so surprising to me about this whole thing is that roger was so uncareful about his threats and his alleged lies. even in the nixon days, everybody knew you had to meet in a dark alley and weren t recorded. if these allegations were true, roger wrote some things that would obviously backfire on him and hit send. for someone so savvy, this is the part that s so shocking to me. are you going as far as to say i insinuated in my commentary that maybe roger has been angling for exactly this