Very unimpressed with Monday’s SC take on Naomi Osaka’s experience at the hands of Roland Garros / the tennis authorities. Not a million miles from the Sonja McLaughlin BBC one, they basically said Osaka’s issues with press conferences shouldn’t be talked about in terms of mental health when the reason Osaka doesn’t like them is they are boring and annoying to her and what’s more she probably thinks of them as giving away her valuable social media content for free. They said that you don’t get to say press conferences are bad for your mental health if you’re on Twitter and Instagram which is surely worse. And the term mental health is applied too broadly these days. These days.
The above is my précis of bits of their discussion, tbf, it’s an 18 minute slot and there’s more depth than that but they’ve pissed me off enough that I’m not going back to get quotes.
― Tim, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 18:43 (two years ago) link