Accuracy in Media

Former Major League baseball player and ESPN analyst Curt Schilling will join conservative news website Breitbart on Monday, according to a report by New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman. Schilling is best remembered for pitching game 6 of the 2004 American League Championship Series for the Boston Red Sox, against the New York Yankees, with a […]

This week Brian and I discuss Donald Trump’s primary victory in Indiana, the end of Ted Cruz’s campaign, Can the GOP unify behind Trump, the Obama economy, Hillary Clinton’s apology to coal miners and ESPN’s editing out of Curt Schilling’s bloody sock performance and his firing from the network after he defended the NC bathroom […]

ESPN, which calls itself the “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” did not air footage of Curt Schilling and his bloody sock during a documentary covering the pivotal 2004 playoff series comeback win. ESPN fired Schilling over his social media comments on transgenders and bathrooms a few weeks ago.

Curt Schilling minced no words about his time at ESPN: “It was apparent to me early on that if you wanted to go off topic as a sports person, you had to go off topic left, or you were going to get in trouble,” Schilling said during a radio appearance on SiriusXM’s “Breitbart News Patriot […]

An interesting piece by Ryan Anderson at the Heritage Foundation, comparing the firing of Curt Schilling at ESPN to religious people’s stance on traditional marriage and faith: The bigger issue is that ESPN, like any other company, has a right to control its message, which means it should be generally free to make employment decisions […]

ESPN, which is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, fired Curt Schilling, a former All-Star pitcher and a conservative Republican who has often unabashedly expressed his private opinions on social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. In a press release, ESPN said: “ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct […]

Political correctness runs amok in Bristol, Connecticut yet again: ESPN says commentator Curt Schilling won’t appear on the air for the next month in the wake of his anti-Muslim tweet. ESPN said Thursday that Schilling won’t be on telecasts for the rest of the regular season or the American League wild-card game on Oct. 6. […]