Roger Goodell speaks as emails detail how team\u2019s owner helped to spin coverage of clergy sexual abuse scandal<\/p>\n
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the New Orleans Saints \u201care great corporate citizens\u201d despite revelations in unearthed emails detailing how the football team\u2019s owner and other top executives coordinated with the city\u2019s Roman Catholic archdiocese in a campaign to soften media coverage<\/a> of a decades-old clergy-abuse scandal engulfing the church.<\/p>\n Saints owner Gayle Benson and other key lieutenants \u201care very involved in this community, and they are great corporate citizens\u201d, Goodell said after media outlets provided the most complete accounts yet detailing the team\u2019s decision to help the New Orleans church\u2019s messaging about a scandal that has prompted state police and federal agents to jointly open a child sex-trafficking investigation into the archdiocese.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roger Goodell speaks as emails detail how team\u2019s owner helped to spin coverage of clergy sexual abuse scandal NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said the New Orleans Saints \u201care great corporate citizens\u201d despite revelations in unearthed emails detailing how the football team\u2019s owner and other top executives coordinated with the city\u2019s Roman Catholic archdiocese in a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}