The Baseball Night in America logo, alongside the Yankee and Red Sox logo, superimposed onto an image of the 9/11 memorial pools
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Fox Sports used the 9/11 memorial as the background for a baseball night graphics.
The visual prompted criticism online, including from the 9/11 Day memorial organization.
Fox Sports is facing criticism after using a the 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero in Manhattan as the background for their baseball night graphics.
In the Saturday night showing of a game between the Yankees and Red Sox, the channel superimposed the team’s logos and the network’s “Baseball Night in America” logo onto an image of the memorial pools at the World Trade Center.
The pools mark the locations of the North and South Towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed 2977 people and shook the world.
Writing on Twitter, the 9/11 Day organization, which organizes memorial services for the terrorist attacks, said that “Fox Sports owes the 9/11 community an apology. On air”
The imagery prompted criticism on social media as well. Steve Scott, a local radio anchor, called the decisions “horrible.”
—Steve Scott (@SteveScottNEWS) July 17, 2022
Carol Eggers, a former NBC News producer, called the decision “beyond offensive” in a message reposted more than 3,000 times.
—Carol Eggers (@ceggersmidwest) July 17, 2022
Fox Sports did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment, which was sent outside of US working hours on Sunday.