{"id":858058,"date":"2026-08-14T17:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858058\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:34:10","slug":"fox-news-putting-increased-focus-on-wnba-since-late-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858058\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News putting increased focus on WNBA since late June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News has \u201cdevoted at least 13 hours and 34 minutes of programming to the WNBA\u201d since June 25, much of which \u201ccriticized the league over issues pertaining to race and trans inclusion in women\u2019s sports,\u201d according to Tyler Monroe of MEDIA MATTERS. The coverage started as assertions that Fever G Caitlin Clark \u201chad been targeted for being white, but it has devolved into an argument over trans inclusion in the WNBA, a league which\u202fcurrently\u202fhas no trans players.\u201d The network has \u201cdedicated more than 8 hours of coverage in the past month to the issue of trans athletes in the WNBA,\u201d airing segments on Fever G Sophie Cunningham, her comments about trans inclusion<\/a>, and the fallout. Fox News seized on the June 25 foul by Sun F Alyssa Thomas against Clark<\/a>, \u201cdedicating over 3 hours and 30 minutes of coverage across 62 segments to the foul.\u201d Comments\u202fmade by Cunningham about \u201cprotecting \u2018young girls in sports who shouldn\u2019t have to go against biological men\u2019 further amplified Fox\u2019s focus on the WNBA,\u201d sending the network \u201cinto a frenzy and prompting over 8 hours of coverage focused on issues regarding trans athletes from July 22 through August 11.\u201d Since July 22, Fox has \u201cdedicated at least 130 segments to discussing the possibility of trans athletes in the WNBA, with at least one segment every day except July 28\u201d (MEDIA MATTERS, 8\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News has \u201cdevoted at least 13 hours and 34 minutes of programming to the WNBA\u201d since June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-858058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}