Stephen A. Smith new low

[Pendleton]

So, Stephen A. Smith posts breaking news of Iverson's retirement on his OWN web site, www.stephena.com, thus scooping the newspaper and web site that he works for.

He should get canned on Thanksgiving Day

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Who does Stephen A. Smith work for these days?

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Aprapos of nothing: Stephena.com sounds like it'd be an Eastern European porn site.

Maybe this was a condition of Iverson issuing the press release? Not sure why, but maybe he wanted to give to to Screamin' A for his own site because he thought the other media were keeping him down.

 

[Pendleton]

Who does Stephen A. Smith work for these days?

Philadelphia Inquirer

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Who does Stephen A. Smith work for these days?

Philadelphia Inquirer

I thought he was out of there.... for at least a year.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

He's been gone from the Inquirer for awhile and he's been gone from ESPN for about six months.

 

[beanpole]

the Inquirer was ordered a month ago to reinstate him and give him back pay after Smith sued them for wrongful termination. But I don't know if he ever restarted there.

 

[funky_mountain]

here was the guild note regarding smith's return. the letter is dated nov. 12, 2009.
http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=14002
can't find a recent column though, so maybe he hasn't officially re-started.

 

[Pendleton]

Takes a while to ease back onto the job, ya know

 

[Joe Williams]

If he posted it on his personal site first, even though he's on the Inky's payroll again, then he should be fired. And this time, the Guild ought to hold the door open for him. By serving his personal agenda and Web site first, over his employer's, he's doing his little part to put mainstream journalists out of work, something the Guild surely cares about.

 

[ReyHeath]

From Richard Prince's "Journal-isms:"

Stephen A. Smith broke news Wednesday — that 10-time NBA All-Star Allen Iverson plans to retire from the National Basketball Association after a 14-year career — but the story did not appear in the Philadelphia Inquirer, which has been forced by an arbitrator to take Smith back.

Instead, the story appeared on Smith's Web site and was picked up by several news outlets, including the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse wire services. Moreover, Smith, who covered the All-Star guard during his heyday with Philadelphia 76ers, wrote a column about Iverson's decision for FoxSports.com and discussed it on a number of broadcast outlets.

"Inquirer Editors Bill Marimow and Mike Leary should be embarrassed at having forced Stephen A. Smith to break such big news on his own Web site rather than philly.com," the Inquirer Web site, Dan Gross, president of the Newspaper Guild of Philadelphia, told Journal-isms. Marimow is editor and Leary is managing editor.

"The Inquirer continues to refuse to publish any work by Stephen until he agrees to policies and regulations that management has not subjected other members to. On this Thanksgiving, I am thankful to work at the Philadelphia Daily News, where employees and their work are respected by our editors."

Not only did the Inquirer refuse Smith's story, but philly.com later published a version attributed to "staff and wire reports" that left out Smith's name, which was in the wire stories.

 

[Suicide Squeezer]

I hope ESPN had to go through the process of booking Stephen A. for a speaking engagement to have him on Sportscenter.