Charissa Thompson on set of the Amazon Prime “Thursday Night Football” pregame show before an NFL football. (Cooper Neill / Getty Images)
Charissa Thompson, a co-host on pregame shows for Fox Sports and Amazon’s Prime Video, acknowledged that she has fabricated comments from NFL coaches while working as a sideline reporter.
The admission surfaced earlier this week on the Barstool Sports podcast “Pardon My Take.” Thompson, who first worked as a sideline reporter for Fox Sports from 2007 to 2010, said she would fabricate comments if a coach refused to speak to her or was unable to provide access before halftime ended.
“I didn’t want to screw up the report, so I was like, ‘I’m just going to make this up,'” Thompson said. “Because, first of all, no coach is going to get mad if I say, ‘Hey, we need to stop hurting ourselves,’ ‘We need to be better on third down,’ ‘We need to stop turning the ball over and do a better job of getting off the field.’ Like, they’re not going to correct me on that.”
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Whether the coaches cared or not, making up comments is a clear breach of journalistic ethics.
Thompson made a similar admission on a January 2022 podcast she did with fellow sideline reporter Erin Andrews. They both said they improvised when coaches gave them nothing to work with or answered questions with sexist remarks.
A representative for Amazon Sports declined comment on Thompson’s remarks. Fox Sports did not respond to a request for comment.
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Thompson currently is a co-host on Amazon’s “Thursday Night Football” pre- and post-game shows. She is also a co-host on “Fox NFL Live,” which airs Sunday mornings. She worked at ESPN before re-joining Fox Sports in 2013.
While people expressed outrage on social media about Thompson’s admission, such a practice is not unheard of in sports reporting.
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Author : LA Times
Publish date : 2023-11-16 23:34:03
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