{"id":548379,"date":"2021-06-01T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548379"},"modified":"2021-06-01T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T18:35:45","slug":"journalists-cheer-naomi-osaka-for-shunning-journalists-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalists-cheer-naomi-osaka-for-shunning-journalists-at-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Cheer Naomi Osaka for Shunning Journalists at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fjournalists-cheer-naomi-osaka-for-shunning-journalists-at-french-open%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=548379&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 readability=\"31.395744680851\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Multimillionaire tennis celeb withdraws from tournament, says talking to reporters is a mental health hazard<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 June 1, 2021 2:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"96.43495531281\">\n<p>Tennis celebrity Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open on Monday after she was fined $15,000 for refusing to fulfill her media obligations.\u00a0Taking questions from reporters, she wrote in a statement, was a mental health hazard she would rather avoid in the interest of &#8220;self-care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Journalists were quick to applaud Osaka&#8217;s decision to shun their sports media colleagues.\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>\u2018s Sophia Nelson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAmSophiaNelson\/status\/1399717962924412947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">applauded<\/a> Osaka&#8217;s decision, saying the tennis player &#8220;honors her boundaries&#8221; and &#8220;put herself first.&#8221; The<em> Guardian<\/em> published two columns endorsing Osaka&#8217;s claim that speaking to journalists is both pointless and hazardous to one&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[H]ow much can it honestly matter if a 23-year-old does or doesn&#8217;t turn up to them and go through the banalities?&#8221; wrote columnist Marina Hyde. &#8220;This is TENNIS. Watch the match, listen to the commentary, read the analysis, and if there&#8217;s still something you didn&#8217;t understand, then honestly just naff off and read a children&#8217;s book instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em> sportswriter Tumaini Carayol agreed, slamming the French Tennis Federation for forcing Osaka &#8220;to choose between defiance and the possibility of unprecedented punishments or the deep discomfort of facing the media.&#8221; The organization&#8217;s efforts to enforce its own rules, she wrote, were indicative of &#8220;old institutions that are desperate to maintain control, uninterested in the human cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em> sports columnist Barry Svrluga panned his reporter colleagues for asking &#8220;inane and tedious&#8221; questions at press conferences and argued that social media have made sports journalists increasingly irrelevant. &#8220;Osaka can turn to Instagram and TikTok to push the brands that help make her a fortune but also to show her working out with her boyfriend or sightseeing in Rome,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The filter is no longer the press; it&#8217;s the athlete herself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some sports journalists were more critical of her actions. Christopher Clarey of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, for example, wrote that &#8220;facing unwelcome questions, even in defeat, does not seem like too much to ask&#8221; of highly paid athletes. The controversy also raises questions about certain players receiving &#8220;special treatment&#8221; compared with their peers:<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for the Grand Slam tournaments&#8217; hard line with Osaka was the desire for fairness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Naomi has always struggled with public speaking and dealing with the press has always made her anxious and so it&#8217;s finally come to a head,&#8221; said Rennae Stubbs, a former No. 1 doubles player who is now a tour-level coach and ESPN analyst. &#8220;You cannot allow a player to have an unfair advantage by not doing post-match press. It&#8217;s time consuming, so if one player is not doing that and others are, that is not equal. But after this, it&#8217;s time to really take a hard, long look at all of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion who has yet to win the French Open title, raked in more than $55 million in 2020, making her the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/55-million-later-naomi-osaka-133000820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-paid<\/a> female athlete for the second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Multimillionaire tennis celeb withdraws from tournament, says talking to reporters is a mental health hazard  Getty  Andrew Stiles \u2022 June 1, 2021 2:30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278796,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-736x490-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Journalists Cheer Naomi Osaka for Shunning Journalists at French Open","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1146942436-736x490-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Journalists Cheer Naomi Osaka for Shunning Journalists at French Open","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548379","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}