Would say her probably not getting to go into the closed trial is a great reason, but I'm sure the desire for fondue is too great.
Aren't they banning ALL journalists and non-parties from the hearing? It's kind of the opposite of some systems that believe court proceedings should be public. However, this is a Court for Arbitration, and arbitration doesn't play by the same rules of public-sponsored court systems.
I too love photos of Switzerland in the name of reporting.
Possibly I just have higher standards. And I'm being polite with "possibly" having read loads of American journalism, you could say.
I think journalistic standards wasn't really the topic of this thread because it's been mostly focused on whether Brennan was "sent" by "USA, the country" and then some explanation about why she of all journalist seems to be the only one who is based in the U.S. who bothered to go in person via her three-decades long history of reporting for this sport and her being on top of this story from the beginning.
OK - hope a Russian reporter does that to someone American in the future, so I can say they're being "hard-nosed".
People have opinions. Often times, people will have different opinions. People on FSU have been defending Russian statements in interviews and Russian journalists' takes on situations, and even found them "refreshing". Also, many on FSU used to be entertained at the harder interviews of the past, and would remember situations, like when a reporter made Shae-Lynn Bourne cry during a press conference when it turned out that reporter was like Pasha Grishuk's aunt or something. So not everybody minds the same things.
Further, Brennan and Phil Hersh (who used to cover figure skating extensively for decades) have been the subject of ire from many skating fans who don't find what could be categorized as needlessly hard-boiled questioning to skaters entertaining, especially American ones because that was the majority of their readership.
If it's for the sake of reporting - well what is a bit of harassment between friends, or enemies, or whatever Russia and the US are.
Some saw it as harassment and took in the context that although Davis was an adult, she grew up to be a figure skater and there may not be the same sort of growth and maturity with her as one could expect and she deserved some consideration, especially the sensitive nature of the scandal that involved her actual mother.
There have been others who believe figure skating and figure skaters should be treated the way other sports and athletes are treated and not be given kid gloves with regard to journalism. Many subscribe to this, Dave Lease being one. These folks would argue that categorizing Brennan's line of questioning as "harassment" is purposefully miscategorizing the actual nature of the questioning, and doing so is just a PR move to victimize Diana Davis for an agenda. Others who may be more generous would say it was infantalizing her, and not giving her credit for being mature or grown enough to at least provide a no-comment type of answer to a question some differ about whether it was a "hard-nosed" question.
I personally think it was fair for Brennan to ask the question and to push a bit when Davis was trying to use her partner as a shield. However, I also think Brennan was going after the wrong target, needlessly went after someobody who wasn't shown to be involved in any of th Valieva situation at all other than being the daughter of the coach who may have been a power player, seemed to not understand that Davis may have had hearing issues and didn't give her much accomodation, if any, that seemed to stem from a place of believing she was just using her disability to avoid answering questions (which is super offensive), and some of her expressed frustration with Davis was performative, over-the-top, and revealed some ignorance about "Americans not being able to speak English". That said, I also think that last comment was motivated by accusatory reasons than actual ignorance, which wasn't as clever as Brennan thought it was.
The reporting on Vincent is them being hard-nosed currently. Americans should stop complaining.
Vincent wasn't posed questions directly, so the situation is different as he had no responsibility towards the notable Russian skating figures whose responses that are the subject of people's comments. Nobody said those responding didn't have a right to do so, but rather are finding the hypocrisy of their statement amusing and also have seen the same formulaic responses before and know exactly what these responders are doing. People are also noting the uber defensive is being much more revealing than they want. Also, bringing up pursuing a lawsuit against Vincent gave us another amusing talking point.
As if everyone around the world doesn't know if the tables were turned there would be around a thousand "opinion pieces" about how terrible and inhumane it was.
There certainly were hundreds of posts about it here that has continued more than a year after it happened, and it would be amazing that there would be a "thousand opinion pieces" considering it seems as though there wasn't even a "thousand opinion pieces" from American outlets about this current scandal, the lack of medals awarded, and the IOC appeasing Russia. It's been mostly among the skating fandom.
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