CNN spent years celebrating every BLM shirt, Pride march, and social justice gesture the WNBA could produce.
A team co-owner just screamed obscenities at two 16-year-old girls – and CNN ran five shows without mentioning it once.
But Fox News gave it 38 minutes that same evening, and what they found will not surprise you.
A League Owner Crossed the Court to Curse Out Teenagers
On July 28, two teenage girls sat courtside at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, holding a sign that read "Thank you Sophie for speaking up for girls."
They were wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts – the brand aligned with Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who had publicly stated that biological men have no place in women's sports.
Seattle Storm minority co-owner Celeste Keaton crossed the court at halftime and unloaded on them.
She called the 16-year-olds "f—ing insane" and told them to stop their behavior.
One of the girls ended up in tears.
Then it got worse.
A male fan screamed at the girls too – "F*** off, get out of here, garbage, take the trash out" – while their mother stepped in to defend her own daughter.
Storm players threw thumbs-down gestures at the girls' faces.
The WNBA suspended Keaton from five home games and fined her an undisclosed amount.
Sophie Cunningham called it "truly embarrassing" and promised to send the girls gifts.
Fox News Gave It 38 Minutes. CNN Gave It Zero.
Fox News spent 38 minutes on the story across six shows from 5 to 11 pm on Thursday.
The Five opened with a nearly seven-minute segment.
Special Report with Bret Baier aired a full correspondent package, including the video of the mother shielding her daughter from the screaming male fan.
Laura Ingraham made the WNBA her "Angle" and spent ten and a half minutes connecting the Keaton suspension to a separate league scandal – a video of two players placing bets on their own game – that CNN also didn't touch.
Jesse Watters covered it in his "DEI Thursday" segment.
Hannity spent nine minutes on both scandals.
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Even Gutfeld gave it eight minutes.
CNN ran five shows between 5 and 11 pm.
Not a segment. Not a mention. Zero.
This Is a Pattern, Not a Coincidence
The WNBA didn't stumble into activism – it built an entire brand around it, and CNN cheered the whole way.
The league launched an official Pride initiative in 2014.
It marched in the New York City Pride parade.
Players wore Black Lives Matter shirts during games.
The league created a Social Justice Council.
Every one of those stories got wall-to-wall coverage from CNN, MSNBC, and the networks.
The moment the politics runs the other direction – the moment it's two teenage girls with a pro-Cunningham sign and a co-owner cursing at them – CNN goes quiet.
OutKick and Fox News Digital applied for credentials to cover the WNBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago just days after Cunningham first spoke out about biological males in women's sports.
The league denied the credential request.
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Not one reporter in that press room asked a single All-Star or Commissioner Cathy Engelbert whether they agreed with Cunningham.
The media that built the WNBA's activist brand couldn't find 30 seconds for the biggest story the league had produced in years.
The Story CNN Couldn't Afford to Tell
CNN doesn't have a news problem.
They have a permission problem.
The Keaton story doesn't fit the narrative – a wealthy progressive co-owner screaming at teenage girls for supporting a player who believes women's sports should be for women – so the gatekeepers decided America didn't need to know.
That's not journalism.
That's activism with a press badge.
Fox News got called biased for years by the same people who just gave CNN a pass for blacking out a story about a grown woman cursing at 16-year-olds.
The mother on that video said it best: "You leave my daughter alone. She's a minor."
CNN couldn't find 30 seconds for it.
That tells you everything you need to know about who's covering the news – and who's protecting the narrative.
Sources:
- Fox News Digital, "Storm co-owner suspended after incident with Sophie Cunningham fans," OutKick, July 30, 2026.
- Washington Times, "Seattle Storm owner suspended after cursing at teens supporting Sophie Cunningham," July 30, 2026.
- USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports, "WNBA suspends Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton," July 30, 2026.
- CBS Sports, "WNBA suspends Storm co-owner for confronting fans supporting Sophie Cunningham," July 29, 2026.
- NewsBusters, "CBS Covers Suspension of WNBA Owner for Yelling at Sophie Cunningham Fans," Media Research Center, July 31, 2026.
- OutKick, "WNBA media predictably embarrasses itself again by ignoring Sophie Cunningham story over All-Star Weekend," July 28, 2026.