A Pittsburgh TV station employee paid a heavy price for
taking a high-profile shot at Tom Brady. Why fire the
guy for showing the truth.
Pittsburgh's CBS affiliate fired the employee responsible
for identifying the New England
Patriots' star quarterback as a "known cheater" in a
graphic displayed Monday during KDKA-TV's 4 o'clock news program, a spokesman
told Dan Gartland
of Sports Illustrated. CBS is the broadcaster for Super Bowl LIII.
"While fans are entitled to have personal opinions, we
have a journalistic responsibility to provide unbiased reporting," KDKA
said in a statement. "The graphic that appeared Monday violated our news
standards. The individual who created the graphic no longer works for
KDKA-TV."
The NFL suspended Brady for the first four games of the 2016
season for his role in Deflategate, and the Patriots as a whole have a history
of walking the line between competitive and illegal conduct; their videotaping
from the sideline of other teams' play-call signals from 2002–07 is the most
infamous example.
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