Final week, the Ladies’s Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation (WNBPA) known as out USA Immediately’s Christine Brennan, saying she fueled “racist, homophobic and misogynistic vitriol” on-line following an interview with Connecticut Solar guard Dijonai Carrington.
Brennan requested Carrington if she supposed to hit Caitlin Clark within the eye throughout a playoff collection after which requested if she was laughing about it afterward.Â
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Christine Brennan speaks on the SiriusXM Enterprise Radio Broadcasts “Past The Sport: Tackling Race” on Feb. 5, 2016, in San Francisco. (Kimberly White/Getty Photographs for SiriusXM)
The incident led to a scathing assertion from the WNBPA, particularly mentioning Brennan and accusing her of “abus[ing] your privileges,” including she does “not deserve the credentials issued to you.”Â
The union additionally known as on USA Immediately to take motion, nevertheless it’s clear she has no regrets about her dialogue with Carrington.
“The perfect factor I can do as a journalist is to attempt to give the athlete a possibility, which I’ve executed tens of 1000’s of instances, to reply the query and inform us what she believes occurred. That was actually it,” Brennan stated Monday on CNN.
USA Immediately columnist Christine Brennan asks a query at a Staff USA press convention through the 2018 Olympic Winter Video games. (Shanna Lockwood-USA Immediately Sports activities)
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“And as you already know, initially I’d ask that query 100 instances out of 100, I’d ask it at the moment, the athlete has each alternative to then take that query and go together with it any method she needs. And clearly she did. In order that’s the chance that I believe any journalist offers an athlete while you’re overlaying a narrative, to offer them the chance to offer their facet of it.”
Brennan even challenged the WNBA, questioning if the league is “able to deal with a few of this scrutiny.”
“That’s a query I might ask and say ‘sure they’re,’ as a result of these are fantastic girls who’ve been on this highlight for a very long time,” Brennan continued. “However for some cause this has touched a nerve and I might say the opposite query I might ask, is that I might ask that query of a person and have for 1000’s of instances in my profession, requested robust questions of Tiger Woods and Michael Phelps and also you identify it.Â
“Are they saying we can’t ask robust questions or on this case, not even a troublesome query, only a honest query of a feminine athlete?”
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark drives to the basket as Solar guard DiJonai Carrington defends, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Uncasville, Connecticut. (AP Photograph/Jessica Hill)
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Brennan’s employer defended her in an announcement, as nicely.
“Journalists ask questions and search reality. At USA Immediately, our mission is to report in an unbiased method,” the corporate wrote. “We reject the notion that the interview perpetuated any narrative apart from to get the participant’s perspective straight. Christine Brennan is nicely considered an advocate for ladies and athletes, however before everything, she’s a journalist.”
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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