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- From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)
- Subject: Re: Women Sports Reporters
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.171731.2704@adobe.com>
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- References: <1993Jan25.171916.16426@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1993Jan26.001040.17179@adobe.com> <1993Jan26.032855.22345@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:17:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.032855.22345@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> bhv@areaplg2.corp.mot.com (Bronis Vidugiris) writes:
- >Here's the long version - in case there still is a disagreement on the
- >facts. Next come the interpretations.
- >
- >
- >1) Wyche had been fined in 2 previous incidents dealing with
- >reporters - once for punching one, and another for not allowing reporters
- >access to the players after a loss.
- >
- >2) The comission's inflexible rules were that all reporters were to
- >be allowed access to the locker room.
-
- Nope, we don't agree here. It is my recollection that an interview room is
- sufficient, and that the Cowboys (under Landry) had done so. This is
- mentioned in Roger Angell's article on the subject of women in the locker
- room. I don't have the reference handy here, though it has appeared in
- this thread.
-
- >3) Wyche did not allow a female reporter in the locker room. He apparently
- >offered to allow her to interview the players in another area (this
- >come from other net.posters - you have not specifically agreed that this
- >occured as far as I know.)
-
- I agree with this.
-
- >My concern was that There does not seem to be any room in these policies for
- >players to have privacy in the locker room. This bothers me. Hence my
- >comments on the rigidity and inflexibility of 'the commission'. I don't
- >think reporters have any basic right to be in a players locker rooms, and
- >I think the Comission was far too inflexible in this matter.
-
- Once again, there is no Commission. That's not a memory of mine, that's a
- fact. There is a Commissioner, and there are owners of football teams.
-
- >Though I haven't mentioned it specifically, my futher concern is broader
- >than the rights of professional atheletes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I have
- >heard of similar lack of concern for privacy of atheletes in a less prominent
- >and less well paid position than professional ones from random intrusion from
- >members of the opposite sex.
-
- Do you have any specific examples?
-
- >We also seem to have disagreed on whether some players have a generic
- >'bad attitude towards women' (whatever that is).
-
- No, we didn't really discuss that at all.
-
- Sherri Nichols
- snichols@adobe.com
-
-