Sports journalist Charissa Thompson has sparked outrage after admitting to fabricating coaches’ comments while working as a sideline reporter for the NFL, claiming that she never did anything “unethical.”
Thompson, who now reports for Fox Sports and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, made the controversial comments during Wednesday’s episode of the Pardon My Take podcast.
“I’ve said this before, so I haven’t been fired for saying it, but I’ll say it again,” she prefaced. “I would make up the report sometimes because A, the coach wouldn’t come out at halftime or it was too late and I was like, ‘I didn’t want to screw up the report,’ so I was like, ‘I’m just going to make this up.'”
The 41-year-old explained that she felt comfortable making up quotes because she believed she had a solid idea of what the coaches would...
Thompson, who now reports for Fox Sports and Amazon Prime’s Thursday Night Football, made the controversial comments during Wednesday’s episode of the Pardon My Take podcast.
“I’ve said this before, so I haven’t been fired for saying it, but I’ll say it again,” she prefaced. “I would make up the report sometimes because A, the coach wouldn’t come out at halftime or it was too late and I was like, ‘I didn’t want to screw up the report,’ so I was like, ‘I’m just going to make this up.'”
The 41-year-old explained that she felt comfortable making up quotes because she believed she had a solid idea of what the coaches would...
- 11/18/2023
- by Ava Lombardi
- Uinterview
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