Longtime sports radio host Craig Carton believes Dianna Russini's scandal has done permanent damage to female sports reporters.
“The next time Dianna Russini reports a story, I know what I’m thinking,” Carton said, referring to the scandal in which the NFL insider was photographed at a resort in Arizona with Mike Vrabel. “I know what you’re thinking. I know what everybody’s thinking. Wonder how she got that story.”
Carton believes that other female sports journalists could be damaged, too.
“She’s done herself great damage,” Carton said. “She’s done a lot of damage to other women in broadcasting, no fault of their own.”
He doesn't see Russini fully recovering.
“I think sadly, for the rest of her life, I think now that becomes a kind of tattoo that’s on her,” he said .”Even if she’s very good at what she does. By all accounts, she is.”
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Russini is far from the only prominent female sports journalist.
In the wake of Carton - and others - ranting about her, former ESPN star Michelle Beadle has issued a "warning."
She knows where the bodies are buried, essentially.
Everyone talking about Russini receives a 'warning'
Beadle is warning all the "ladies" in sports to "be careful."
“What I find interesting is the number of female sportspeople who have felt very comfortable in getting out there and blasting specifically her,” Beadle, the former ESPN star, said on her “Beadle & Decker” podcast Monday.
“Ladies, at some point, I will write a book. And the more I see you yapping out there about all this high and mighty, self-righteous, I know a lot about a lot of you,” she added.
“So be careful.”
