After Sterling Fracas Passes, What Are We Left With?

KUT 90.5 | By Emily Donahue,

Published April 30, 2014 at 3:36 PM CDT

The news that the NBA is going to try to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers and ban him for for life has reverberated around the world.

The blowup over his racist remarks has been one of the hottest stories of the week. That makes sense from an historic perspective: race has been a prominent and persistent subplot in the American narrative.

But after this story falls off the news media's agenda, will anything be different?

Texas Standard host David Brown spoke with Michael J. Cramer, executive director of the Texas Program in Sports and Media and former president of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars.

Emily Donahue

Emily Donahue is KUT’s news director. She has spent more than two decades in broadcast journalism and launched KUT’s news department in 2001. Previously, Emily was part of the Peabody-award winning team at Marketplace as producer of the Marketplace Morning Report. Since coming to KUT, Emily has overseen a doubling of the news staff and content, the accumulation of more than 50 local, national and international awards for journalistic excellence and served on several boards, including the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters and as a member of the 2011 Texas Association of Broadcasters Open Government Task Force. Emily lives in Austin and is currently working on her Master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

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David Brown

David entered radio journalism thanks to a love of storytelling, an obsession with news, and a desire to keep his hair long and play in rock bands. An...

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