Gregg Doyel suspended

[justgladtobehere]

What exactly did Doyel do off-camera?
Can't see it in the video clip above.

He made a heart with his hands.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Is that a union shop? I'm just trying to think how you'd write up that suspension. "Being cringe" is probably not covered in the CBA.

I dont know how you suspend a guy for being cringe. Re-assign him. Happens all the time, guys hopping beats because one team's sick of him. As a columnist that's imperfect but. Nevertheless. Like others I've seen a heck of a lot worse

 

[MisterCreosote]

I remember covering Carmelo Anthony's press conference when he signed with the Knicks. The behavior of a reporter asking him questions and blatantly flirting with him while his wife stood off to the side disturbed everyone present -- journalists, team execs, PR folks. Nothing happened to her; nobody wrote about it, we all just rolled our eyes.

And yes, I'm sure the Fever made their concerns known. As they should! If the Knicks ever voiced their concerns, it went unnoticed, because the reporter mentioned went on to have a fine career. Different times, different faces, different standards.

Forget suspensions. I'm old enough to have heard horny, creepy reporters say things about females they covered that should've gotten them arrested.

 

[PaperClip529]

Is that a union shop? I'm just trying to think how you'd write up that suspension. "Being cringe" is probably not covered in the CBA.

I dont know how you suspend a guy for being cringe. Re-assign him. Happens all the time, guys hopping beats because one team's sick of him. As a columnist that's imperfect but. Nevertheless. Like others I've seen a heck of a lot worse

Indy is a union shop. I assume there was some sort of negotiation/agreement, which is why nobody heard about this until the suspension was almost over. To be honest, I thought that punishment was a slap of the wrist and this will all be forgotten by football season.

 

[Songbird]

A bit strange considering the years' worth of good work he has done there though this will likely get him booted from the 250-influential list.

Doyel has won 16 APSE Top 10 awards since 2007, eight for columns, including firsts in 2014, '17, '19 and '22. In 2023 he was named one of the 250 most influential business leaders in Indiana by the Indianapolis Business Journal.​

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...na-250-list-ibj-business-journal/70438957007/

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Forget suspensions. I'm old enough to have heard horny, creepy reporters say things about females they covered that should've gotten them arrested.

Many times about high school-aged girls.

 

[wheels89]

A bit strange considering the years' worth of good work he has done there though this will likely get him booted from the 250-influential list.

Doyel has won 16 APSE Top 10 awards since 2007, eight for columns, including firsts in 2014, '17, '19 and '22. In 2023 he was named one of the 250 most influential business leaders in Indiana by the Indianapolis Business Journal.​

https://www.indystar.com/story/news...na-250-list-ibj-business-journal/70438957007/

Wouldn't be the first time someone has had years of good work blown to heck over doing something stupid.

 

[playthrough]

Maybe I'm overthinking but I don't know how he survives this. He's very possibly been blackballed by a pro team in his town, social media will never let him off the hook and it wouldn't be hard at all to find a columnist younger/cheaper/less cringey. Infact isn't that the Gannett way?

 

[wicked]

Many times about high school-aged girls.

There's always the photog who takes scandalous shots and sits there trying to find evidence of a gymnast's erect nipples.

Seems like the creeps were usually the ones whose kids, if they had them, had aged out of high school, so they felt like they had a free pass to ogle to their heart's content.

Then there was the colleague of mine who, purportedly, had a way with the athletes' moms and tagged a few. He was probably around their age, or maybe just a bit younger, by that point.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Maybe I'm overthinking but I don't know how he survives this. He's very possibly been blackballed by a pro team in his town, social media will never let him off the hook and it wouldn't be hard at all to find a columnist younger/cheaper/less cringey. Infact isn't that the Gannett way?

I don't think things go that far. Because frankly, I don't think people were all that surprised that Doyel is a bit of a creep.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Really? His actions at the press conference were cheesy and kind of gross, but in my 30 years in this business I've witnessed far too many reporters "flirting" with people they cover, and not one has been suspended.

The difference is that every major press conference is broadcast these days. If this episode hadn't been on tv and/or internet, it would have been unknown outside the room.

 

[PaperClip529]

Maybe I'm overthinking but I don't know how he survives this. He's very possibly been blackballed by a pro team in his town, social media will never let him off the hook and it wouldn't be hard at all to find a columnist younger/cheaper/less cringey. Infact isn't that the Gannett way?

He's still allowed to cover the Colts and Pacers, and he can technically cover the Fever (just from afar). There are still plenty of ways for him to be a columnist for that newspaper, and I really doubt his readers will care about this issue with Caitlin in a few months when they are pissed off about some in-game decision made by Shane Steichen. I think you are overthinking this.