The Josh Hader of NFL writers

[Steak Snabler]

To quote Lindsey Yok herself ... "not great."

Verified Ravens Beat Writer Exposed on Twitter for Apparent Old NSFW and Racist Tweets







Unclear what outlet she works for. Anyone know?

 

[ondeadline]

Looks like a USA Today site. Lindsey Ok

 

[justgladtobehere]

Ravens Wire, part of some USA Today thing, NFL Wire.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

How do people who’ve had the same account since they were kids not run these searches themselves and scrub the thing? Boggles the mind.

 

[Mwilliams685]

You can have twitter send you every single tweet you've ever tweeted. It's never even hard to do.

 

[outofplace]

She was dumb enough to post offensive remarks about African Americans, Asians and homosexuals, so perhaps she just wasn't smart enough to cover her tracks.

 

[tapintoamerica]

What's the deal with these sites? It looks that she has written one piece since the draft. Is this a paid gig with benefits? Or is it just a forum for superfans in which the corporation bestows the great favor of a forum for unpaid or nearly unpaid stuff?

 

[Della9250]

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

But Josh Hader is really good.

 

[Craig Sagers Tailor]

I use Twitter throughout the day and I have no idea how to find someone's tweets from 10 years ago

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I'd fire her just for suggesting a tweet was "taken out of context."

 

[Vombatus]

Baby, it’s you!

 

[Batman]

I use Twitter throughout the day and I have no idea how to find someone's tweets from 10 years ago

That's what always stuns me about these instances. Eight years, presumably thousands of tweets in between, and probably not a current pattern of similar tweets, so how and why do people unearth these things?
Why would anyone even be looking for them? Do the posts pop up in your timeline as a reminder of something you did on that date, like Facebook occasionally does?
If someone was mad at them and wanted to drop the hammer, have they been sitting on these things for a decade? And if so, why now instead of at any point along the way?
Is there an army of folks whose job it is to comb Twitter for potentially offensive tweets from every semi-public person?
It boggles the mind.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Maybe when she commented on the standing ovation for Hader somebody said, "oh, let's see what you were saying as a teenager."

 

[poindexter]

Eight years, presumably thousands of tweets in between, and probably not a current pattern of similar tweets, so how and why do people unearth these things?

Have you seen what posts people inventory, then retrieve, on this site?

 

[Moderator1]

Like herpes, Twitter is forever. If you don't want it to pop up and haunt you a million years later, don't type it.

 

[Batman]

Have you seen what posts people inventory, then retrieve, on this site?

Yeah, I guess there's always that person who says something that sticks in your brain for whatever reason. Still weird to get motivated to randomly dredge it up years later, though. Even if, as Jake_Taylor suggested, there was a reason in this case there are dozens of others where these things resurface out of nowhere that make you go, "WTF!?"

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

At my former stop, there was a college that went through a similar storm, when some elected student government leaders had some pretty awful things in their social media past. A reporter there - acting on a tip - wrote about it, as did the student newspaper. Then friends of the ousted student government leaders started digging into the Twitter history for these student journalists, and of course they had some awful things in their past, so the reporter wrote about that, too. Bad situation all around, with job suspensions and resignations.

Flash-forward a couple of months, and the reporter - openly and proudly gay - celebrated Pride Week by liking some posts (from his account that ID'd him with his employer and title) that showed a video of a young man wearing a T-shirt that said, "COCKSUCKER" and enthusiastically mimicking his blow job technique.

I know it was just a "like" but it seemed pretty hypocritical to me.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

That's what always stuns me about these instances. Eight years, presumably thousands of tweets in between, and probably not a current pattern of similar tweets, so how and why do people unearth these things?
Why would anyone even be looking for them? Do the posts pop up in your timeline as a reminder of something you did on that date, like Facebook occasionally does?
If someone was mad at them and wanted to drop the hammer, have they been sitting on these things for a decade? And if so, why now instead of at any point along the way?
Is there an army of folks whose job it is to comb Twitter for potentially offensive tweets from every semi-public person?
It boggles the mind.

One of the ways teams do it is by google search. They type in your twitter handle, plus various slurs. If there's a match, it pops up. Pretty simple.

 

[dirtybird]

One of the ways teams do it is by google search. They type in your twitter handle, plus various slurs. If there's a match, it pops up. Pretty simple.

Twitter has a search function that does it too. You can search one account for tweets with “any of these words”