Folded conveniently into the narratives about his “complicated past” was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could’ve wrecked him. It was a rape allegation by a 19-year-old employee of a hotel. It happened in 2003.
DENVER -- Folded conveniently into the narratives about his “complicated past” was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could’ve wrecked him.
“We look up to them to win games,” said Miki Turner, a longtime journalist who is now a professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “But we don't really scrutinize their values as closely as we might for politicians or news anchors. I think there's just a different line there.”
Among the central questions in the Bryant story, and how his life is being remembered, is whether the pass he received in the obituaries and tributes was more about the passage of time than any bias toward him, or athletes in general. Allegations of sex abuse are leveled with greater frequency against the rich and famous; more of the accusers, but certainly not all, are increasingly treated with greater respect, and their complaints are being taken more seriously.
“Sometimes, it's OK to not have a right answer,” Cox said. “We're all very morally righteous with our Twitter fingers. The idea of the black-and-whiteness of it all. But it's not that easy. We grieve family members who had problematic pasts. But with athletes, it seems like we need a neat, tidy story even when it's not always there.”
And while nobody sheds any tears about that, there's an argument to be made that, with some exceptions, such as Woody Allen and Donald Trump, the leagues, the law and the public have meted out a different kind of judgment for them than for their brethren in sports.
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