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FAIL: Reuters Runs Headline Claiming ESPN Dropped ‘Confederate General Doppelganger’ Robert Lee

Emily Zanotti

International news organization Reuters may be in the market for a dictionary very soon.

Faced with having to report on ESPN’s bizarre decision to drop a sportscaster named Robert Lee from a University of Virgnia football broadcast because his name too closely resembled that of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, Reuters, apparently, tried to take ESPN’s side.

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