BROADCAST BIAS: Sophie Cunningham takes a hit, but ABC, NBC dodge WNBA’s transgender sports fight

On the morning of Aug.

8, ABC’s "Good Morning America" was celebrating the Women’s National Basketball Association.

ABC is one of several networks that air WNBA games nationwide.

ABC’s Rachel Scott asked: "What's the biggest WNBA story right now that fans should be paying attention to?" ESPN’s Holly Rowe replied, "It’s going to be really hard to make the playoffs." Within hours, a bigger story erupted: Indiana Fever basketball player Sophie Cunningham was brutally whacked in the face going up for a layup after the press decided she was controversial for wanting to keep women's basketball limited to women.

Chicago Sky player DiJonai Carrington was ejected from the game.

She then rushed into the locker room and blamed "White privilege" for the ejection.

The broadcast networks didn’t want to cover this development, either as a sportsmanship or culture-war issue.

There was one network willing to report a few times on the WNBA facing the issue of men in women’s sports: CBS, which might explain why liberals cast aspersions on its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

WNBA MEDIA PREDICTABLY EMBARRASSES ITSELF AGAIN BY IGNORING SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM STORY OVER ALL-STAR WEEKEND On July 29, "CBS Evening News" fill-in anchor Matt Gutman reported on how the WNBA suspended Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton for yelling at two girls supporting Cunningham’s position when the Fever came to town.

The girls said Keaton called them "f---ing insane." Reporter Jan Crawford explained: "Cunningham, known for fearlessly defending teammate Caitlin Clark on the court, is the first active professional female athlete to speak out against transgender females in women's sports.

In an ESPN profile earlier this month, Cunningham says girls in sports shouldn't have to go against biological men." SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM ADDRESSES THE FALLOUT OVER HER STANCE ON TRANS ATHLETES NOT BELONGING IN WOMEN'S SPORTS Then came a sound-bite of Cunningham: "I said what I said.

I think it's kind of common sense.

And I think I'll always believe in that." Crawford added that when Cunningham was asked if her words could sound "anti-transgender," she replied, "I have never once said I hated the trans community.

Like I said, I think there's space for everyone." Men always have the space of men’s sports.