ESPN fires MLB reporter Marly Rivera for calling fellow reporter ‘f–king c–t’

[Mr. X]

ESPN fires Marly Rivera for calling reporter 'f--king c--t' (nypost.com)

 

[HanSenSE]

Well, she doesn't have to worry about the pay cuts [/crossthread]

 

[Deskgrunt50]

And not just a fellow reporter. She's married to MLB's VP of communications.

Perhaps just a suspension if not for that.

 

[HanSenSE]

Perhaps she's been drinking with Britt McHenry?

 

[MeanGreenATO]

There is *so* much going on in that NY Post story. The wife of the MLB VP of comms crashing an exclusive?!?

 

[cake in the rain]

There is *so* much going on in that NY Post story. The wife of the MLB VP of comms crashing an exclusive?!?

She's a very well respected and well known freelance baseball journalist from Venezuela. She wasn't there because she was married to an MLB executive. She was doing her job.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

She's a very well respected and well known freelance baseball journalist from Venezuela. She wasn't there because she was married to an MLB executive. She was doing her job.

Crashing somebody else's interview is doing her job?

 

[MeanGreenATO]

She's a very well respected and well known freelance baseball journalist from Venezuela. She wasn't there because she was married to an MLB executive. She was doing her job.

This makes it even worse. If she's been in the business for a while then she should absolutely know that crashing an exclusive interview -- with the team's biggest star, no less -- is atop the list of biggest no-no's in sports writing.

 

[cake in the rain]

1. I have no idea what happened, and the only version of what precipitated this incident is being disseminated by the person who was fired.
2. It's a little unseemly that you think that failing to properly genuflect to ESPN is "among the biggest no-no's in sports writing."

 

[Azrael]

1. I have no idea what happened, and the only version of what precipitated this incident is being disseminated by the person who was fired.
2. It's a little unseemly that you think that failing to properly genuflect to ESPN is "among the biggest no-no's in sports writing."

Wouldn't matter if it was ESPN or the Penny Saver, sticking your nose into another reporter's pre-arranged exclusive is bad form. Absolutely bush league.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I can't believe someone HERE would argue otherwise. Jesucristo.

 

[cake in the rain]

I can't believe someone HERE would argue otherwise. Jesucristo.

I know. But it's incredible the amount of people who see ESPN or reporters from big outlets as their "betters" and are very subservient to them. It's like sucking up to the popular kids in the school lunch room. Sort of sad really.