Dustup over new Astros beat writer for Chron.com

[exmediahack]

Thankful there was no Twitter when I was in my 20s and covering sports.

25-year-old me would have pissed off everyone I covered.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Hell yes, Ex.

I would have been literally un-hireable then because of what my social media footprint would have looked like.

 

[exmediahack]

I’m not edgy anymore on social media. Once I saw too many people get fired or suspended from tweets, I realized posting on Twitter has very little upside and is a resignation letter waiting to happen.

A couple years ago, I had an interview for an anchor job in a market that I had taken delight in going after the fan base for years.

Took about a half hour to take out anything with my handle and “Vols” “Volunteers” “Tennessee” “Butch” “Dooley” and “frauds”.

 

[Liut]

Many of these responses are reminders of what I've recently read in new books by Martin Baron and Kat Timpf.

 

[BTExpress]

“Butch” “Dooley” and “frauds”.

They were called much worse by those same fans.

 

[Mr. X]

Many of these responses are reminders of what I've recently read in new books by Martin Baron and Kat Timpf.

Please share more details about that. Thanks.

 

[Liut]

Please share more details about that. Thanks.

The likes of Felicia Sonmez, Dave Weigel or Wesley Lowery might ring a bell.
Last I heard, Sonmez was working at North Carolina Public Radio in an off-air capacity. Not a bad gig at all, but quite a drop from The Washington Post.

 

[HanSenSE]

Thankful there was no Twitter when I was in my 20s and covering sports.

25-year-old me would have pissed off everyone I covered.

It was bad enough being 25 and working at the Podunk Weekly. Social media would have made things much worse.

 

[FloridaGator]

The big concern from her tweet has nothing to do with calling Altuve a cheater, but instead that she has contemplated committing suicide three times in a relatively short period. Hope friends and family are taking that seriously.

 

[dixiehack]

“Butch” “Dooley” and “frauds”.

Nashville would love you for this and Memphis is too divided to care. I’ll assume you weren’t slumming in Knoxville or Chattanooga.

 

[BTExpress]

The big concern from her tweet has nothing to do with calling Altuve a cheater, but instead that she has contemplated committing suicide three times in a relatively short period. Hope friends and family are taking that seriously.

And those were AFTER she beat acute myeloid leukemia in high school.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Chron sounds like a respiratory disease. But it's far better than Tronc, which was a bowel discharge.

Chron sounds like a news site that covers the cannabis industry.