Final week, the Girls’s Nationwide Basketball Gamers Affiliation (WNBPA) known as out USA In the present day’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 meant to hit Caitlin Clark within the eye throughout a playoff collection after which requested if she was laughing about it afterward.
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Christine Brennan speaks on the SiriusXM Enterprise Radio Broadcasts “Past The Recreation: Tackling Race” on Feb. 5, 2016, in San Francisco. (Kimberly White/Getty Pictures 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.”
The union additionally known as on USA In the present day to take motion, however it’s clear she has no regrets about her dialogue with Carrington.
“The very best factor I can do as a journalist is to attempt to give the athlete a chance, which I’ve carried out tens of hundreds of instances, to reply the query and inform us what she believes occurred. That was actually it,” Brennan mentioned Monday on CNN.
USA In the present day columnist Christine Brennan asks a query at a Group USA press convention in the course of the 2018 Olympic Winter Video games. (Shanna Lockwood-USA In the present day Sports activities)
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“And as you understand, initially I’d ask that query 100 instances out of 100, I’d ask it right this moment, the athlete has each alternative to then take that query and go along with it any method she needs. And clearly she did. In order that’s the chance that I feel any journalist provides 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 great girls who’ve been on this highlight for a very long time,” Brennan continued. “However for some motive 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 hundreds of instances in my profession, requested powerful questions of Tiger Woods and Michael Phelps and also you identify it.
“Are they saying we can not ask powerful questions or on this case, not even a tricky query, only a truthful 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 Picture/Jessica Hill)
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Brennan’s employer defended her in a press release, as effectively.
“Journalists ask questions and search fact. At USA In the present day, our mission is to report in an unbiased method,” the corporate wrote. “We reject the notion that the interview perpetuated any narrative aside from to get the participant’s perspective instantly. Christine Brennan is effectively thought to be an advocate for girls and athletes, however at first, she’s a journalist.”
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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