Sideline reporter gave fake news

Lisa Guerrero is a real reporter who took her job on the sidelines seriously, despite horrific backlash and in spite of colleagues who tried to undermine her. Don't loop her in with this!

 

Thinking of all the women who have been breaking the glass ceiling and moving into the booth over the last few years. This isn't going to make the job of those following in their footsteps easier.

 

She's hardly dumb, most sideline reporters are very useful doing and reporting things that viewers don't often immediately see or hear, and the pre-game prep can be brutal for those who take the job seriously.
If other journalists don't "give a shit" when quotes and facts are made up, well, that sure says something about us.

 

Thompson having a deservedly hard night on social media.

 

I'm kind of astonished that she thought this was some kind of funny/interesting/wacky anecdote she could share publicly. She has absolutely earned the grief she's getting for this, and I can't imagine she was expecting it or she wouldn't have said what she said. It's a remarkable lack of judgment, beyond the transgression she's admitting to.

 

You could make the case that her admitting it was a dumber fucking move than her doing it in the first place.

Does she do a podcast with Erin Andrews, or am I thinking of someone else? If so, I wonder if Andrews will distance herself from Thompson.

At the very least, her sideline reporting days have to be over, right?

 

I thought they ended more than a decade ago.

 

True. The interesting thing about this game is that it compels a sideline reporter. Both QBs have been dinged up. She is getting ample opportunity to do a job.

 

They do have a podcast together. Apparently Thompson shared a version of this story on that podcast two years ago, saying she sometimes paraphrases coaches so they don’t sound dumb. The story has now been upgraded to making stuff up.

 

Charissa is dumb b/c she said the soft part out loud. Maybe it's arrogance, but here, dumb is a good synonym for arrogance. Regardless of industry, nobody likes people who admit to being lazy on the clock.

Most of this particular brand of sideline reporting isn't journalism. How many sideline reporters have chops? Lisa Salters was terrific the night of the Damar Hamlin injury (so was everyone associated w/the broadcast). Pam Oliver & Tom Rinaldi are good. Maybe I'm forgetting someone, but I doubt it. Salters, Oliver & Rinaldi are older and came or age when the ink-stained likes of Will McDonough and Peter Gammons (each of whom had their own flaws, but that's a topic for another time) were the sideline reporters.

Today, we're generally talking about the lowest of lowest common denominator stuff. "Coach why are you losing?" These in-game and post-game interviews are utterly useless bits of information that add nothing to the broadcast. No one would miss these segments if they disappeared. That no one could tell she made shit up tells you how useless this is. The way broadcasts have evolved, in terms of camera angels and replay, we can tell pretty much in real time when a guy is done for the day. And when it's a serious injury, the yes men for teams & agents are going to be the ones to break that shortly after the game ends. Ian Rapoport had the Cam Akers Achilles injury at 5:20 PM EST on Nov. 5.

I'm much madder about White House reporters sitting on stuff about the fascist in charge from 2017-21 so it could make for a good book, or the both sides-ism bullshit, or the fact that nobody in print or television seems to be doing a good job of explaining that the 2024 election isn't reality television. Here in our lane, I get much madder about Manish Mehta going off the deep end and terrorizing everyone with and around the Jets for way too long (he only got fired in 2020, I would have guessed it was years before that), or Kevin Manahan bullying his writers to ask the dumb shit he wants so he can get more clicks at his click factory. I have higher expectations for print journalists and I get furious when they do things that make us and the business look bad. I have no expectations for almost anyone on a sideline.