Leslie would have been well within her rights to say the time didn’t feel right to answer the question.
Really good about the interview.
In a clip of an interview with WNBA star Lisa Leslie, "CBS This Morning" anchor Gayle King asked about a 2003 sexual assault allegation against Kobe Bryant.
“Gayle conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with Lisa Leslie about the legacy of Kobe Bryant,” the statement said. She dropped the charges in exchange for an apology for the rape, which Bryant gave. I get compliments from everyone....Items arrived quickly and were as described...#Roommates, many fans are still outraged at Gayle King’s questions about Kobe Bryant during a recent interview with WNBA legend Lisa Leslie. While the criminal complaint against him was dropped, Bryant reached an out-of-court settlement with his 19-year-old accuser and issued a statement acknowledging that their sexual encounter may not have seemed consensual to her. In August of that year, the woman filed a civil lawsuit, which was settled out of court March 2, 2005.
However, Lisa beautifully responded to the rapid fire questions by discussing about how great of a person Kobe was:Roommates, what are your thoughts on this?Since then, Gayle has shifted the blame for the tacky line of questioning to CBS and claimed that the interview that aired was edited in an unfavorable way to focus on the questions about Kobe.
As more TV-news operations turn to digital media to lure younger viewers, they are flooding Twitter and other outlets with short video bursts that contain enough to grab an individual’s attention, and can hopefully push that person to seek out more at a news outlet’s own platform. But if you’re going to ask Leslie this question, there’s no reason it shouldn’t be asked of Bryant’s NBA pals as well—friends who have been vocal about social justice or the power of their platforms.“The case was dismissed because the victim in the case refused to testify,” King pointed out.The rest of us just have what we choose to remember.As Bryant’s friend, Leslie has the right to her memories and recollections of the man.
“The last thing I would want to do is disparage him at this particular time.”Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters“Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview,” she said. What is worth pushing back on is the notion that Leslie has the authority to dictate how Bryant should and should not be remembered. Send us a tip using our annonymous form.A CBS News spokesperson owned up to the network’s role in a statement provided to Deadline. I just don’t believe that. My responsibility is to make sure the three of us have a great show, and I have always looked at it that way,” she said in an interview with Variety published last month. Kobe was never like that.
We are our own worse enemies! A lot was made about it.
The subject: Kobe Bryant and his legacy. But the clips isolate a piece of an interview, or even a longer bit of dialogue – and often contain context-free questions, declarations or on-screen reactions that spur outsize reaction. People who saw the clip were led to believe King had asked only about Bryant’s legal woes.“If I had only seen the clip that you saw, I would be extremely angry with me too. Get Morning Report and other email newsletters“CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King took to Twitter to complain about the way CBS News excerpted her recent interview with former WNBA player Lisa Leslie about basketball great Kobe Bryant – a rare display of a major news personality visibly at odds with her network over editorial judgment.“When the interview aired, we had a great reaction to it.
Gayle King doesn’t have the power to litigate it, nor can any other journalist. You’re a real Superhero!!
Dismissed.Leslie explicitly wants the case to be forgotten.If that equal opportunity reckoning feels gauche, that’s worth examining. A criminal case against Bryant was dropped Sept. 1, 2004, after the accuser declined to testify. Hope you don’t get roasted for it.Ultimately, how we choose to look at Bryant (and it is a choice) is both an open and personal question. But I don’t look at it now that I have re-signed. Gayle King's interview with Lisa Leslie isn't going over well with some viewers.
I just never, have ever seen him being the kind of person that would do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way. When the full interview aired, she added, feedback was positive, including from Leslie.King said Leslie’s perspective on the sexual assault case was important to hear because she is a member of the media, working as an on-air analyst for Fox Sports Florida. No one person, no one article, no one interview can do that.The honest assessment of Bryant’s history involves a rape charge not simply because this act of violence may have happened (and someone very famous and beloved may have done it), but because it had a real impact on real lives.It’s not complicated for me at all. I am mortified, I am embarrassed and I am very angry,” King said. After a video clip of CBS This Morning host Gayle King questioning WNBA great Lisa Leslie about Bryant’s past rape allegation went viral, there has been a very negative backlash toward King. I just don’t believe that things didn’t happen with force.Gayle King became the target of intense and widespread backlash this week after her interview with former WNBA star Lisa Leslie went viral.