ESPN doesn't seem to care that Jon Gruden's bigoted emails were sent when he was the network's highest-paid on-air talen

https://www.sfgate.com/sports-columns/article/Jon-Gruden-and-his-emails-say-a-lot-about-ESPN-16527065.php

"Gruden was the color guy for Monday Night Football when he sent all of those emails," says Drew Magary. "He sent many of them FROM his ESPN work address. He was ESPN’s highest paid on-air talent. His boothmate at ESPN, Mike Tirico, was himself no stranger to wanton lechery and mounted a hollow 'well I never saw him be racist' defense of Gruden on Sunday night that looks even more hollow right now. And what has been ESPN’s reaction to this news? See for yourself": “The comments are clearly repugnant under any circumstance," ESPN said in a statement. "That’s it," says Magary. "That weaka** statement represents the entirety of ESPN’s due diligence on Gruden, without a second thought, reducing DeMaurice Smith to a racial caricature, accusing Roger Goodell of forcing the Rams to draft 'queers' like Michael Sam, calling Joe Biden a 'p*ssy,' dumping on female refs and trading topless photos of WFT cheerleaders with the dude who ran that team." Magary adds: "This has been a pattern at ESPN for a good long time now. Nothing all that bad happens to a lot of their worst talent, because the people who employ that on-air talent enjoy similar, shall we say, ethical vices. Current network president Jimmy Pitaro is a man who’s gutted the production side of the operation while also infamously enforcing an internal policy prohibiting ESPN stars from venturing too far afield when commenting on issues outside of sports. But really, Pitaro’s ascent is symptomatic of the network’s perpetual coziness with the leagues they cover, the NFL in particular."