Sideline reporter gave fake news

It was unfair to throw Guerrero under the bus like that - wasn't aware of her solid rep. I also have to applaud the other sideline reporters for speaking out against the admission - I think they often feel they have to "protect" each other being some of the few women in sports journalism. I'll also say I think sideline reporters are underutilized - they are obviously on the job, prep for the broadcast and hear and observe things that are relevant, but are too often limited to "what did the coach say" and injury update hits. Why not ask them questions about how they think a team's gameplan is working or if a team seems frustrated?

 

Also never heard of Festivus:

 

Invoking the Mark Meadows defense.

 

Quick to stress the “I don’t do THAT work any more, I’m a higher-paid host now” approach.

 

Hope she saved her money and invested.

 

Sorry not sorry makes it worse.

 

Imagine typing these words back-to-back and thinking that will help your cause ...



She badly needs a PR firm's help.

 

I mean, this stuff is all on tape, right? If not in the official Fox archives then on some obscure YouTube channel. All it takes is one coach or ex-coach to say “I never said that” when she attributed to them and this is blown to bits.

 

Guaranteed her producers knew what was going on. When do they get thrown under the bus?

 

I'm sure this is true in every market. In mine, we've got YES Network, where the Yankees are fucking impossible to deal with and you'd better have some chops to handle that never-ending minefield. Kimberly Jones (who has so many chops, she's back in print now w/Newsday) & Meredith Marakovits have always done a terrific job. Kevin Burkhardt penned maybe the greatest rags to riches story in American broadcasting history by going from selling cars to taking the right approach to SNY's in-game Mets reporter and parlaying it into a dream gig as Fox's baseball studio host & no. 1 football PBP guy. He's terrific and an even better guy to boot. The rest of SNY is....................meh is too generous a term, across ages and aisles and genders. Doesn't matter. You get what you pay for.

 

You know there's an outlet rolling three-deep, frantically pulling up any and every Charissa Thompson sideline report to find any patterns. If not, there should be. What a world.

 

Co-sign all this. Especially with Marakavoitz. She is one of the best, IMO.