{"id":39726,"date":"2021-03-01T01:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T02:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39726"},"modified":"2021-03-01T03:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T03:12:00","slug":"bbc-fires-back-after-presenter-left-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39726","title":{"rendered":"BBC fires back after presenter left in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has condemned online abuse of Six Nations rugby presenter Sonja McLaughlan after she was reduced to tears by trolls.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlan conducted robust post-match interviews with England captain Owen Farrell and coach Eddie Jones after a Test defeat to Wales over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Far from the soft interviews often produced on-field straight after the final whistle, McLaughlan asked assertive questions about poor refereeing and England&#x27;s ill-discipline. Farrell in particular appeared uncomfortable with the questions and became increasingly evasive with his answers.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlan was met with a torrent of abuse on social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/sonja-mclaughlan-owen-farrell-interview-england-wales-six-nations-test\/49db288f-20a3-4a0f-97ad-de16de306144\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"which she said had left her in tears\">which she said had left her in tears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sonjamclaughlan\/status\/1365757473462829066?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sonjamclaughlan\/status\/1365757473462829066?s=20<\/a><img data-id=\"e69e8646-2900-40e1-9366-85357ec34611\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e69e8646-2900-40e1-9366-85357ec34611\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport responded with a statement supporting McLaughlan and denouncing her abusers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;BBC Sport strongly condemns the online abuse experienced by Sonja McLaughlan after the Wales v England match,&quot; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sonja has long been a key member of our Six Nations team and she absolutely has our full support.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>England Rugby also released a statement of support for McLaughlan, saying, &quot;Abuse for doing your job is not OK and we stand with you&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby\/status\/1365899635982753792?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby\/status\/1365899635982753792?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former England international Ugo Monye quickly offered <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/sonja-mclaughlan-owen-farrell-interview-england-wales-six-nations-test\/49db288f-20a3-4a0f-97ad-de16de306144\" title=\"McLaughlan a message of support\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McLaughlan a message of support<\/a>, as did the official Twitter account of Six Nations Rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Leading sports broadcaster Alison Mitchell has backed McLaughlan, as has high-profile sports writer Oliver Holt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonMitchell\/status\/1366129852273758209?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonMitchell\/status\/1366129852273758209?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OllieHolt22\/status\/1365832151120424965?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/OllieHolt22\/status\/1365832151120424965?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is McLaughlan&#x27;s interview with Farrell in the wake of a 40-024 defeat, launched with the question: &quot;Owen, were England robbed by some poor officiating tonight?&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1365738073556987906?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSport\/status\/1365738073556987906?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The BBC has condemned online abuse of Six Nations rugby presenter Sonja McLaughlan after she was reduced to tears by trolls. McLaughlan conducted robust post-match <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=39726\" title=\"BBC fires back after presenter left in tears\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39728,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39726\/revisions\/39728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}