ESPN president John Skipper addressed Chris Broussard's comments on Outside The Lines with a handful of reporters. Here's the transcript:

(On how ESPN's platforms did on the Jason Collins announcement)
"I think we did great other than we made one mistake: The mistake was not being more careful with Chris Broussard, and there is a collective responsibility there. Chris Broussard's job was to come on and talk about the news of the league, how the league was representing it, and through a series of events he made personal comments which was a mistake.

I asked Skipper if he spoke to Broussard and the producers of Outside The Lines:

"I had a discussion with everybody. They said, 'Look, we brought [ESPN.com columnist] LZ Granderson on to talk from a personal point of view, and we brought Chris on as a reporter and it was a mistake for him to cross the line into a personal point of view there.' We don't quarrel with his right to have any personal point of view, although we do assert as a company that we have a tolerant point of view, we are a diverse company, and that does not represent what our company thinks."

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