NBC and the Chicago Tribune are being blasted for their sexist coverage of female Olympians
The Chicago Tribune is receiving plenty of flack for a tweet it posted about Corey Cogdell, a trapshooter who won her second bronze medal in women’s trap on Sunday. The article itself now leads with Cogdell’s name, but on Twitter it led with her husband, Chicago Bears lineman Mitch Unrein, while Cogdell was only referred to as “wife of a Bears lineman.”
Some argued that the tweet contextualized Cogdell for the Tribune’s audience, but the tweet appeared online mere hours after Hosszu’s husband was applauded for her accomplishments, and it hit a particularly hard nerve with fans keeping up with coverage over the weekend.
But the Tribune’s reporting was only the beginning of the Olympic coverage that’s being criticized for sexism.
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I love this backlash :)
(via dailydot)