ESPN offered two statements on the Frontline/League of Denial controversy between Thursday and Friday. Now, president of the network John Skipper has offered his own personal statement.
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We have been leaders in reporting on the concussion issue, dating back to the mid-1990s. Most recently, we aired a lengthy, thorough, well-reported segment on Outside the Lines on Sunday, and re-aired it Tuesday.
I want to be clear about ESPN’s commitment to journalism and the work of our award-winning enterprise team. We will continue to report this story and will continue to support the work of Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru.
We have respect as well for the efforts of the people at Frontline.
League of Denial was slated to be a collaboration between Frontline and Outside the Lines. It was announced Thursday that ESPN would have no further involvement with the project, which premieres Oct. 8. The movie has a tie-in to a book by the aforementioned Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru, both investigative reporters for ESPN.
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