SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Shortly after ESPN broke the story about child-molesting allegations against Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, a network executive criticized the decision to publish. Patrick Stiegman, then editor-in-chief at ESPN.com, said at an editorial board meeting in December 2011 that the reporting on the Fine case failed the network's internal guidelines on when to publish allegations of crimes when no one's been charged. "We really lowered the bar," Stiegman said at the meeting, according to minutes disclosed today in federal court. Another executive, Jed Stark,...
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