Fired over a "tremendous amount of sex"

Well then that really sucks.

Again, I just see this more like an actress that was in a movie with low brow humor. Do you really hold it against her?

And, while Rolling Stone might be a little "cutting edge" it's not like they hold Matt Taibbi's work at the Exile against him. What kind of journalistic reputation is CSN Chicago trying to preserve?

 

So since this was unrelated to the other night, the station is in effect taking the stance that if she hadn't referenced the Blackhawks having a "tremendous amount of sex" on the air, they would still be firing her because of this series that they already knew about when they hired her?

That's believable. :

 

In an interview that appeared somewhere last month, she mentioned her first job came from a producer with NFL Network or some such place noticing the YouTube clips. So it at least got her her first bite. And CSN could not have been that naive. Sounds like they panicked when people put the dots together.

 

A tremendous amount of sex? Patrick Kane sees nothing wrong with this assertion.



Besides, captain serious has got away with far worse

 

And now, the rest of the story...

 

Lots of folks here breaking into a sweat at the thought of the Koch brothers buying Tribune, and meddling in the decision making.

LA Times employees ready to quit if they buy the paper.

So, what do we think of the cowardly folks at Comcast, who didn't have the guts to tell their partner Rocky Wirtz to go fuck himself when he demanded they remove a reporter from covering his team?

I assume resignation letters are being written all over the country at this very moment.

Some big names at 30 Rock are surely concerned by this lack of journalistic integrity.

 

In journalism, as anywhere: You are only as good as your leaders.

 

Holy crap, YF, she's so not worth giving up a job over

 

A team broadcast isn't journalism and she wasn't a journalist.

 

Surely you realize it's not about her, but about the principle.

If it's not journalism, then there is even less reason to fire her.

But, Comcast doesn't deserve to be let of the hook here. They own NBC, which has a news division. Surely they have company wide standards.

And, they created a conflict of interest the moment they entered into a partnership with Wirtz & the Blackhawks. That conflict is supposed to be mitigated by giving the folks who run CSN full authority over hiring and firing.

But, the moment CSN gets a letter from Rocky, this chick is shown the door. That's bullshit. That's cowardice.

Would NBC pull someone off the White House beat if they got a call from someone in the Obama administration?

You can't say that they wouldn't. You might want to argue that position, but if they won't stand up for this reporter, you don't know who they would stand up for.

 

It's just as well. She was due to call them the Blackcocks soon.

 

Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox own 70 percent of the station. Hawks are known for being control freaks. Collins said in a ChicagoNow blog interview that a Showtime exec saw her Sports Nutz videos and put her on Inside the NFL doing feature (fluff) pieces. Then she got work at WCBS or some NYC station, which led to a return home to Comcast.

The funny part is this is a completely manufactured PR crisis. No one was talking, or even looking for, those videos, until she was fired.