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- Title
Sexual Harassment in Sports Media.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the issue of sexual harassment in sports media in the U.S. A Boston Herald sports reporter, Lisa Olson, who was conducting a locker room interview, was allegedly approached by five New England Patriots in various stages of undress who made obscene comments to her and directed lewd gestures toward her. Also, Cincinnati Bengals football coach Sam Wyche denied entry to the locker room to a female reporter of USA Today. These incidences involves the clash of the constitutional privacy rights of male athletes with the constitutional and statutory rights of female reporters. As a frame of reference for the Olson case, the author discusses the matter of Ludtke v. Kuhn, a 1978 federal district court case that addressed major league baseball's official policy of excluding all female reporters from clubhouses and locker rooms. The court acknowledged that there were ways to protect the players' privacy other than barring females from locker rooms, for example, by having the interviewee wear a towel. It has been considered that Olson's claim may be more properly framed as an action in assault and/or battery or based on a state obscenity or lewdness statute.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEXUAL harassment; SPORTS; MASS media; OLSON, Lisa; NEW England Patriots (Football team); CINCINNATI Bengals (Football team); FOOTBALL players
- Publication
Journal of Sport Management, 1992, Vol 6, Issue 1, p72
- ISSN
0888-4773
- Publication type
Article