Last week I talked about a woman executive in sports media. This week I am going to talk about one who is an on-air personality. Most sports have sideline reporters but when I think of sideline reporters I always think of football and one in particular. One of the most recognizable women sports personalities is Erin Andrews. She is most known for reporting on Thursday night football. She is also a host of the popular show Dancing with the Stars but even when I see her on there I always associate her with football. Once again this relates back to the first post I wrote about how sports always seem to pick the most attractive women to be associated with them. Someone found Erin Andrews so attractive that she had a whole stalking incident by a man who was obsessed with her. This just proves that men who see attractive women on TV during sports will do anything they can to get in contact and potentially hurt them emotionally and physically. I do not think this is right and that sports media should not be portraying women as icons but rather as women who are interested and into sports.
The past two weeks I have written about how the media portrays women around men's sports. This week I am going to dip into who is running the media outlets and what role women have inside them. Many of the sports news outlets today such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Bleacher Report all have CEOs who are men. Men also dominate the employes inside of each of those companies. Barstool Sports, however, is a little different. Let me start off by giving you a little background on Barstool. Barstool started out as a betting newspaper by Dave Portnoy. Yes, a man started Barstool but when it was time to grow Barstool Dave went out and found a female CEO. The CEO of Barstool today is Erika Nardini. Erika being the CEO of Barstool puts Barstool apart from the other sports media outlets and often speaks openly about being a CEO of a male dominate platform. Many people have given Barstool a hard time for things that bloggers have said about women but they have a women CEO and they have a han
Comments
Post a Comment