From: gwangung@byron.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: soc.women,soc.men
Subject: Re: Women Sports Reporters
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:17:53 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1993Jan7.042039.12604@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> noraa@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:
>In article <1ifhh1INNcqd@shelley.u.washington.edu> gwangung@byron.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
>>	Hmmmm....according to the news reports >I< have on record, he got
>>fined for specifically banning ONLY female reporters.
>>	However, what Wyche was fined for was banning female reporters
>>and not male reporters.  This is NOT what is being claimed here.
>He did NOT ban them from the locker room,

	Oh?

	See attached article.

HEADLINE  BENGALS JUST SAY NO TO REPORTER'S EQUAL ACCESS
DATE      10/02/90
SOURCE    THE SEATTLE TIMES  (SETL)
          (Copyright 1990)
	Cincinnati Coach Sam Wyche barred a woman reporter from the Bengals'
locker room last night, just hours after NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue 
told media at the Kingdome that equal access for male and female 
reporters would be strictly enforced.
	This morning, Tagliabue said, ``If Sam did what he did, there will 
be a very stiff fine - this week.''
	Tagliabue said he was reserving judgment on whether Wyche, who has 
been involved with reporters in two other incidents over the past several 
years, would be subject to suspension.
	"I have to find out more about it before I talk about suspending 
him. He did what he did and there will at least be a very stiff fine,"
the commissioner said.
	USA Today reporter Denise Tom, who has covered the NFL for six 
years, was not allowed in the Bengals' locker room even though she, 
like her male counterparts, was working on deadline.
	"Sam Wyche was not letting a woman into the locker room with all 
his players naked,'' Wyche told Cincinnati Inquirer reporter Tim Smith.
"I am not doing that to these guys. I'm not doing it to their wives. 
I'll be out of this business before I do that. Our guys don't want a 
woman to walk into a situation like that."
	Tom said a security officer stopped her at the Bengals' locker room.
	"I had just come from the Seahawks' locker room and everything was 
fine," she said. "He stopped me and told me I couldn't go in. He said 
`I don't make the rules and this is a very sensitive time.' "
	The incident follows the controversy surrounding the New England 
Patriots and Boston Herald reporter Lisa Olson. Olson said she was 
sexually harassed by several Patriot players while she was working Sept. 17.
	In a press conference before last night's game between the Bengals 
and Seahawks, Tagliabue said he had appointed Harvard law professor and 
former Watergate investigator Philip Heymann to investigate Olson's 
charges. Tagliabue also contacted all NFL teams this week, reminding 
them of league policy, which he said was "explicit." "All accredited 
media have equal access to the players in the locker room," he said.
	USA Today will file a protest with the league, said Gene Policinski,
the newspaper's managing editor for sports.
	"There is a big irony here in that before the game Denise Tom was 
one of the reporters who sat in with Tagliabue when he reiterated 
league policy and practice," Policinski said. "To be faced with this 
hours later is ridiculous."
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