Rich Cimini Accused of using fake Twitter account to discredit fellow writers

[Blackout]

The article is still up on Gang Green Nation.

EDIT: Nevermind I get what you are saying, the Bleacher Report article is gone.

how about Jetnation puts the article up? or do you not want to hear from ESPN's lawyers?

Edited November 27, 2012 by Blackout

[Villain The Foe]

This has to be one of the best jet years in a long time man. We are getting our asses handed to us by every team, AND our beat writers have become twitter disinfo agents!

I cant seem to stop shaking my head and laughing at the same time!

[bitonti]

not surprising and he's not the only one who does it. He's just the dumb one that got caught.

[faba]

Anthony Weiner is giving lessons on twitter usage

[cr726]

not surprising and he's not the only one who does it. He's just the dumb one that got caught.

I bet a bunch of them will be outed now.

[KSJets]

He seems like a big enough a$$hole to do it so I can believe it.

[kelticwizard]

If true, his career should be over.

Not necessarily. Even nonsports journalists have been caught plagiarizing and even making up fiction and after a brief career interruption go right back to well-paid jobs in journalism.

Mike Barnicle of the Boston Globe lifter stuff from George Carlin's book and now he's a regular guest on Joe Scarborough's show. And by no means is he the only one I can recall-and I'm not even in journalism.

http://www.boston-online.com/barnicle/

Cimini will probably get fired from ESPN if he did it-but he'll probably pop right back up again somewhere else in a year or two.

Personally, I think a journalist who plagiarizes, makes stuff up or does something like what Cimini seems to have done should be read out of the profession and be made to go into a different line of work entirely. But that doesn't seem to happen, unfortunately.

Edited November 28, 2012 by kelticwizard

[jack48]

such a cheesy thing to do. way to get fired, Rich.

[Blackout]

much worse has been done

i mean Mancow made an entire career of copying Howard Stern

[Spoot-Face]

[joewilly12]

Cimini is a douche been saying that for a longtime. 

Manish and Cimimi need to be shown the door. 

[pdxgreen]

It's literally like one day into the off season... I'd just like to point that oit.  #!#@

[Barry McCockinner]

So it was Cimini pretending to be Manish, pretending to be Gase, pretending to be a random guy defending Gase. 

[jeremy2020]

Which beat reporter is @T0mShane on here?

[jetstream23]