- Joined
- Feb 27, 2012
Kwan to cover Olympics for FOX (ETA: Fox Sports)
Hmmmm ... will be fascinating to see whether Kwan's State Department role will affect her reporting on the Olympics.
Will her journalistic portfolio include the political issues affecting the Games, such as the Russian edict on gays -- or will she recuse herself on those topics??
Updated Aug 5, 2013
5:32 AM ET
(AP)
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/michelle-kwan-to-cover-sochi-olympics-fox-sports-1-080513
5:32 AM ET
(AP)
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/michelle-kwan-to-cover-sochi-olympics-fox-sports-1-080513
Hmmmm ... will be fascinating to see whether Kwan's State Department role will affect her reporting on the Olympics.
Will her journalistic portfolio include the political issues affecting the Games, such as the Russian edict on gays -- or will she recuse herself on those topics??
ETA:
N.B.: Kwan will be working for Fox Sports, not Fox News. Very important distinction. But I think that it would be hard for NBC Sports, Fox Sports, etc. to ignore the elephants in the room -- meaning the political footballs associated with the Sochi Olympics.
ETA, a less important thought re Kwan and Fox:
Only my speculation, but I wonder whether NBC had heard rumblings re Kwan joining Fox. Maybe that is why NBC (as it has acknowledged) had spoken to Kerrigan about possibly hiring her for on-air work in Sochi. And maybe that carrot dangling in front of Kerrigan is why she agreed to give NBC the interview on the topic of Harding.