1. He had no idea that doing completely stupid and useless red carpet interviews at a UFC event was a big deal in the world of journalism, but apparently he was wrong.
Over the weekend, Addison Rae, a 20-year-old woman on TikTok who has 82 million followers, tweeted this:
Many people were angered by the frivolous bragging and others were outraged that Rae got a job as a UFC “reporter”.
While the tone of the tweet isn’t exactly humble, this is a 20-year-old who is famous for being on TikTok. You wouldn’t exactly expect self-awareness to be one of your main traits.
As for Rae apparently being hired to work on the event, I found it amazing that the media folks were upset with this. For starters, networks have influencers (gross global alert) to work on events all the time. This is not a new practice.
Rae has 82 million followers on TikTok. It is not difficult to see its appeal.
Additionally, Rae was allegedly hired to do “reporting” at a UFC event. She was not hired to do a research article on CTE in the NFL. To say that Rae’s interviewing people at the UFC is an affront to journalism is a major exaggeration.
I don’t want to minimize the difficulty of being a promising journalist. This is a very difficult business to get into and in a perfect world you would like to think that people who have put in their time within the industry would be rewarded.
However, it doesn’t work that way. People get jobs based on who they know, how many Twitter followers they have, and other things that have nothing to do with the school you attended or the journalistic experience you have.
You may not like it, but it is reality. So attacking Rae, who, again, did herself no favors with the arrogant tweet, is a mistake.
The catch to this whole story is that the whole thing was reportedly nothing more than a gimmick.
Rae did interview with wrestler Dustin Poirier for a TikTok on the ESPN account. I think the world of journalism can survive that.
two. The NBA Finals between the Bucks and the Suns remain a viewership flop compared to the Finals series that took place before the pandemic.
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Four. We need more baseball coaches to kick umpires out of games, as Portland Pickles captain Mark Magdaleno demonstrated.
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7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY: Sunday was a good summer day, so I was listening to some Yacht Rock on SiriusXM when a song played that I hadn’t heard in a long time, but that I remembered liking in the 1980s. However, as soon as they started the lyrics, I was surprised.
After posting that clip on Instagram, I quickly heard people telling me that Benny Mardones video Into the night it’s even scarier than the song. They weren’t lying. The 1980s were a crazy time.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.