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USA Today forced to issue ‘clarification’ in crusade against Caitlin Clark

A crusade against Caitlin Clark found USA Today issuing a “clarification” in the wake of a non-apology for demonizing the all-star and likening her fans to the lynch mob of Emmett Till.

In case the Indiana Fever point guard doesn’t have enough to worry about with violence on the court, including taking a fist to the throat, corporate media has been taking its own shots from the sidelines. After a columnist accused her fans of being racists, USA Today allowed an editor to publish a bogus claim about Clark missing a WNBA event “to get her hair done.”

Posted Friday morning and still live at the time of this writing — complete with a community note — USA Today shared an article from Heather Burns with the caption, “Caitlin Clark skipped the WNBA Orange Carpet on Thursday, opting to get her hair done in her hometown of Des Moines.”

Included in the piece was an Instagram post from Clark’s hairdresser, now featured beneath the actual reason that she was in Iowa while her fellow all-stars were in Chicago: she was participating in an event for her Caitlin Clark Foundation.

That reality was tacked onto the original post Friday afternoon as USA Today delivered a “clarification” rather than a correction to blatant misrepresentation of the point guard’s priorities, writing, “Caitlin Clark was attending an event for the Caitlin Clark Foundation, which is why she missed the WNBA All-Star Weekend Orange Carpet.”

The knock against Clark came quickly on the heels of an op-ed from columnist Nancy Armour that also needed an update for “further context and clarity” after Armour drew a comparison of the outrage and backlash against the league to Till.

Rather than recognize the failure of the league in addressing the abuse perpetrated against Clark on the court, including a suspension-inducing throat punch that found the Phoenix Mercury scrubbing its own mockery of the Fever player, Armour likened specific fan disapproval of the WNBA and black players to the lynching of the 14-year-old in 1955 Mississippi.

“It seems there is a white nationalist element to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made of predominantly Black women, many of them queer,” wrote the columnist. “When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands.”

Armour provided an anecdote about a fan being fired for allegedly sending a message to a player with a racial slur before adding, “It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of ‘defending’ white women. The WNBA’s All-Star Game this weekend is in Chicago, Emmett Till’s hometown, and a local art gallery is currently hosting an exhibit imagining his life if he hadn’t been lynched.”

“While it’s incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, there also should be an expectation on Clark to recognize the wider consequences of her actions,” she wrote.

Following outrage that included calls for her termination, Armour released a statement that read, “In my recent column, I made an inartful comparison with the murder of Emmett Till. I intended to connect the issues the WNBA is currently facing with its All-Star Game being hosted in Till’s hometown of Chicago. I obviously did not provide enough context for that.”

The non-apology continued, “However, this point stands: There is a history in this country of perceived threats to white women being weaponized against African-Americans, and the danger that poses to Black players in the league. Players have been abused online and have reported receiving death threats. That has to be taken more seriously. I sincerely regret that my lack of appropriate context is overshadowing that important conversation and the action that needs to be taken by the WNBA to address it directly — for the benefit of ALL players.”

Responses to the latest egregious coverage from USA Today went beyond shaming the outlet to include calls for it to “shut down” entirely.

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