Before Carissa Thompson hosted by Fox Sports and Amazon. Admitted that he had previously fabricated a side job report.she said, “I’ve said this before,” and “I’m not fired.” [for] That’s what I’m saying. ”
She actually said that in a conversation with Fox’s Erin Andrews. As explained by Jenny Vrentas and Kevin Draper, new york timesThompson and Andrews discussed about them Calm down podcast.
This comment was made in early 2022. At the time, it didn’t cause much of a fuss, so many people probably thought it didn’t get any attention.But as Vrentas and Draper discovered, that statement Featured by Brandon Contes of Mediate.com.
Thompson explained on his podcast that he had a hard time getting anything important out of former Lions coach Rod Marinelli during the team’s ill-fated 0-16 season in 2008.
“I was like, ‘Oh, coach, what adjustments are we going to make at halftime?'” Thompson said via Contes. “He said, ‘That perfume you’re wearing looks amazing.’ I thought, ‘Oh my God, this isn’t going to work.’ I’m not kidding, I wrote a report. ”
Mr. Andrews replied: He didn’t want to throw a coach under the bus because he kept saying the wrong things. ”
Mr. Vrentas and Mr. Draper linked to the Contesse article (links to the full podcast episode at the bottom) and added a statement from Andrews’ publicist Jill Frizzo. Public relations staff ensures that her reporting is accurate. ”
Frizzo added that Andrews wanted to say “she gathered information from meetings with previous coaches to include in her report and was always ‘clear’ on air about where her information came from.” .
thompson issued a statement on social media However, nothing else has been said publicly. Both Fox Sports and Amazon persistently and consistently refuse to comment (except for Dan Kaplan’s now-deleted tweet posted by Amazon). I ignored it as a habit from when I was 15 years old.), and Amazon declined to make Thompson available for an interview. new york times.
As another football Sunday approaches, and as more and more bright, shiny objects emerge that bring new stories and perhaps new controversies, the most important question is: Will it disappear or will it stick around? is.
In this case, the lingering fallout would be, at the very least, in the form of random fans on social media questioning the legitimacy of every in-game report by every NFL side reporter. This is certainly one of the reasons why many sideline reporters have expressed disappointment with the situation.
As Peter King said on Friday, PFT Live, journalism is still under attack. Acknowledging fabrications intensifies people who don’t want journalists to be held accountable or who don’t want their reporting to undermine their preferred view of how things are or should be.