Sideline reporter gave fake news

[wicked]

I've seen the Charissa video mentioned here in a couple posts... heard of the Andrews ones, but not this.

 

[Junkie]

Another one in need of a new PR firm ...

Erin Andrews's Spokesperson Addresses Whether She Made Up Sideline Reports - Sports Illustrated

If this is the best you can do, you're better off saying nothing, IMO.

Why does someone who makes $2 million a year for speaking to people need a spokesperson?

 

[dixiehack]

So they can keep making $2 million. Same reason lawyers hire other lawyers when they get in a fix.

 

[playthrough]

Why does someone who makes $2 million a year for speaking to people need a spokesperson?

In her defense, maybe she started using one several years ago around the peeping tom case.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Because I found this article when I read a link posted here and it involves making stuff up.

Did ESPN really think nobody would care that they deepfaked a Damian Lillard interview?

The video, which features Lillard fiddling with his Bucks jersey while an ESPN mic is extended out in front of him, was actually recorded in the NBA Bubble back in 2020 when Lillard was still with the Trailblazers. Turns out, ESPN digitally altered the video — replacing the reporter interviewing Dame with an ESPN mic and putting Lillard in a Bucks uni — and then tweeted it out after the game as if it had just happened.
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Sorry if posted before.

 

[spikechiquet]

Because I found this article when I read a link posted here and it involves making stuff up.

Did ESPN really think nobody would care that they deepfaked a Damian Lillard interview?

Holy shirt! I never saw that! forking awful.

 

[OscarMadison]

Honestly, the first thing that popped into my head when reading this thread was a time when I approached a coach post-game and he didn't feel like talking. He said, "What do you think I would say? Just write that." And walked away.

I didn't directly quote him saying something I made up, but did write a sentence along the lines of "Coach Bippity was impressed by his team's ability to run the ball and outgain shirtsville 223-45 on the ground."

"I'm not paid to talk."
-Tired people asked for those magical sound bites they're supposed to dole out after games.

I witnessed this once in a great while. Sympathies to both sides, but the more I hear about and from Thompson and now Andrews, the madder it makes me on behalf of the women I encountered who -excuse me for being crass this morning- busted their butts to get where they are.

 

[wicked]

Especially when women already have people whispering about them.

I know Erin Andrews never covered the NHL, but the fact that she's married to a guy who plays/played in the league will be held against her by some.

 

[spikechiquet]

Especially when women already have people whispering about them.

I know Erin Andrews never covered the NHL, but the fact that she's married to a guy who plays/played in the league will be held against her by some.

I seemed to recall the first time I saw Erin on ESPN, it was covering a Lightning game.

 

[goalmouth]

Because no legitimate media would alter a video, or, I dunno, fake pickup trucks blowing up, in order to advance their agendas.

 

[CD Boogie]

Especially when women already have people whispering about them.

I know Erin Andrews never covered the NHL, but the fact that she's married to a guy who plays/played in the league will be held against her by some.

Not me. He was muling my drugs into the pool in Las Vegas when he got nabbed. But that it were true.

 

[Vombatus]

Because no legitimate media would alter a video, or, I dunno, fake pickup trucks blowing up, in order to advance their agendas.

Pickup trucks blowing up? Where can I see this?