Washington Examiner
Sage Steele says ESPN celebrating Lia Thomas was a ‘turning point’ for her at company
Ex-ESPN anchor Sage Steele said she was told “not to” discuss certain political topics on social media when working at the network. Steele said that, when the story of athlete Riley Gaines speaking out against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas broke in 2022, she didn’t understand “from a journalistic perspective” why ESPN wasn’t covering the story, […]
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One-sided sourcing - only Steele's perspective presented without ESPN response or alternative viewpointsConservative framing on transgender issues - quotes Steele calling pronouns 'crap' and referring to Lia Thomas as 'he' without editorial distancePlatform bias - prominently features statements made on Sean Hannity's show, a conservative outletselective sourcing from conservative medialoaded language regarding gender identityframing of corporate hypocrisyloaded languagesource selectionframing of issuesLoaded language in quotes from Steele, such as 'all that crap' and 'we know what he is', which reinforces a conservative stanceOmission of perspectives from ESPN or supporters of transgender inclusion, unbalancing the narrativeSource selection from right-leaning outlets like Fox News and the Washington Examiner, framing the story through a sympathetic lens to Steele's views
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