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. "I didn't want to screw up the report, so I was like, 'I'm just going to make this up,'" Thompson said. 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.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 17, 2023 21:58 UTC