{"id":1028412,"date":"2021-11-18T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028412"},"modified":"2021-11-18T17:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:13:41","slug":"nba-on-tnt-seeks-black-applicants-only-for-broadcast-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-on-tnt-seeks-black-applicants-only-for-broadcast-role\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA on TNT Seeks Black Applicants Only for Broadcast Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnba-on-tnt-seeks-black-applicants-only-for-broadcast-role%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Michael-Loccisano_Getty-Images-for-TNT-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">You may be young, and you may be gifted, but if you are not young, gifted, and black, you need not apply for a new on-air position at the <em>NBA on TNT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, NBA on TNT Social Strategist Victoria McBryde posted a tweet seeking a \u201cyoung, gifted, and Black\u201d college student for an on-air position connected to the Oscar Pope Lift Every Voice Fellowship.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.813031161473\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Know a journalist who is young, gifted, and Black? \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NBAonTNT<\/a> is looking for a junior\/senior in college to participate in the Oscar Pope Lift Every Voice Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Opportunities:<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f On-Air Interview at NBA All-Star<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f NBA on TNT Social Takeover<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gprY0lhAOK\">https:\/\/t.co\/gprY0lhAOK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4zcpBnQsN1\">pic.twitter.com\/4zcpBnQsN1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 . (@victoriamcbryde) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/victoriamcbryde\/status\/1461075504438648837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lift Every Voice describes itself as&nbsp;\u201ca grassroots initiative centered on empowering the imaginations of Black student journalists.\u201d However, as Outkicks Bobby Burack points out, there\u2019s no shortage of black sports journalists working on TNT\u2019s NBA coverage or in NBA coverage throughout sports journalism.<\/p>\n<p>As Burack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/nba-tnt-black-race\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p>TNT\u2019s top NBA journalist Chris Haynes is black. Three of the four members of TNT\u2019s&nbsp;<i>Inside the NBA<\/i>&nbsp;pregame show are black. In addition, Turner Sports\u2019 Bleacher Report has made Taylor Rook, a black woman, the face of its brand.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile at ESPN, the NBA\u2019s other major partner, seven of the eight members of its pregame program,&nbsp;<i>NBA Countdown<\/i>, are black. In fact, the Worldwide Leader of Sports has just two former journalists working in opinion roles on ESPN\u2019s NBA bumper programming: Stephen A. Smith and Michael Wilbon, both of whom are black. And Malika Andrews, a black female journalist in her 20s, replaced Rachel Nichols, a white woman, to be the host of ESPN\u2019s signature daily NBA show in the fall.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Telling candidates of other races who may be more knowledgable or qualified for the position they need not apply is not only wrong, it\u2019s not how the sports world works. For example, Luka Doncic, a white guy from Slovenia, is arguably the best player in the game. What if NBA teams engaged in the same hiring practices that their broadcast partners did? What if the league said, \u201cSorry, Luka, we\u2019re not really in the market for a white Slovenian right now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The league would be decidedly less great than it is.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing can happen in media. There are plenty of great black broadcasters who cover the NBA. But there are plenty of young and knowledgeable broadcasters in the pipeline who could do just as well. Turning them down because they have the wrong skin color feeds into the same racial division the league and TNT claim to be against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may be young, and you may be gifted, but if you are not young, gifted, and black, you need not apply for a new on-air position at the NBA &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}