Jason Whitlock can be a controversial sportswriter. Over the years he has done work for ESPN, AOL, Fox Sports and now Clay Travis’ Outkick.com. Sometimes he pens interesting and compelling work. Other times he blatantly trolls in an irritating way that has become all too common online these days.
On Monday, Whitlock sparked outrage on Twitter when he published a column entitled “KATIE NOLAN REPRESENTS THE ELIMINATION OF AMERICA’S MERITOCRACY AND EXPOSES THE FRAUDULENCE OF HER SUPPORTERS.”
The long and short of his beef with Nolan is that she took issue with an article he wrote this weekend about the Maria Taylor Saga, and so he responded by essentially telling the truth about her.
Whitlock pointed out that over the last few years Nolan has become immensely rich and famous in the sports media world despite doing absolutely nothing of note. She has participated in failed show after failed show, yet somehow there was a bidding war for her services between ESPN and Fox Sports.
When she finally landed at ESPN on a seven-figure deal, she did nothing of interest there either.
Currently she hosts a podcast or a Snapchat show or something for them. The fact that nobody quite knows which one it is speaks to how little she is actually known for doing real work.
And yet she is beloved on Twitter. Nobody is wondering why she is taking up a spot-slash-salary in sports media that could easily be filled by another woman or person of color who, you know, actually does something.
Kevin Durant showed Colby Covington no respect. https://t.co/fpwJssqhSt
— Game 7 (@game7__) September 21, 2020
Whitlock attributed Nolan’s befuddling prominence in sports media to “white privilege.”
“It’s white hot privilege,” he wrote.
“You punch her name into Google and you could spend the next month reading everything you need to know about a TV personality without a single legitimate accomplishment. Oh, that’s right she accepted an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social TV Experience.”
Whether white privilege is or isn’t the root cause of Nolan being where she is today is debatable, but his general point is correct. She has done nothing in sports media to be placed on the pedestal on which she currently resides, or command the paycheck she currently receives.
The backlash to Whitlock’s accurate assessment of her only reinforces his point.
Kevin Durant kept it real. https://t.co/jzIENYPfjD
— Game 7 (@game7__) September 21, 2020
“Social media is the driver of false narratives,” Whitlock wrote.
“Nolan is one of the best examples. She’s White Lives Matter. Over Twitter and Instagram, everyone pretends she’s rip-roaring funny and talented. We pretend she’s a victim of a sexist, male-dominated industry. If you question the narrative, you’re labeled as sexist.’”
Nolan seems like a reasonably nice and funny person, if you don’t get on her bad side. She gives off the vibe that she would be cool to hang out with. But again, she got a seven-figure offer from ESPN for no reason whatsoever.
Love him or hate him, Whitlock is not wrong for pointing that out. And bashing him on Twitter, where he gets bashed daily anyway, doesn’t make his assessment of the situation any less accurate.
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