Flyers apologize for “disrespectful remarks” by their social media team towards reporters

[AlexModvechkin8]

“Why would you want to join a rebuilding team like the Flyers?”

Hathaway went to Brown and he’s a smart dude but he should have just said the truthful answer, “They offered me the most money. Next question?”

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

I don’t think a member of the media has asked a member of a team or its staff an interesting question in decades during media availability.

Am I now an enemy of the media?

Okay, that’s beyond the point though.

The person on the Flyers staff said something unprofessional. They had to issue an apology because of unprofessional conduct.

Does your place of work have a code of conduct?

I know in my line of work I get a lot of questions. A lot of times some dumb ones. But if I responded like that, you bet your ass I’d face some consequences.

 

[ponder719]

There is only one actual problem here, and it's that the Flyers managed to hire (yet another, hi Keef) someone who forgot the first rule of PR: always assume the mic is live. The full story here, stripped of the irrelevant bits, is that someone said something stupid where they could be overheard, and it was embarrassing to their employer. The apology (and whatever discipline happens behind the scenes) is an appropriate consequence for a stupid mistake. Literally no part of the actual problem has anything to do with the reporter, the question asked, Garnet Hathaway, or the state of media and journalism, in Philadelphia or writ large. Anything brought up about those elements is people looking for a place to air their biases.

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

reporters constantly dump on people, take quotes out of context, and criticize teams and players with impunity, but when someone's rude to them then they get so very offended. Ridiculous.

Another non-issue, and issuing an apology is a beta move - minus points for Flyers.

Apologizing isn’t a beta move: what is this Andrew Tate bullshit here?

A journalist's job is essentially to pretend that their opinions are more important than those of others' and trying to convince others to agree with them.

A mechanic's job is to get the car working.

If a mechanic said the same thing to a customer who asked a question, what do you think would happen to the mechanic?

Probably face a reprimand and apologize. But apparently, that’s a beta move.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Apologizing isn’t a beta move: what is this Andrew Tate bullshit here?



If a mechanic said the same thing to a customer who asked a question, what do you think would happen to the mechanic?

Probably face a reprimand and apologize. But apparently, that’s a beta move.

It feels like this kind of rhetoric is almost engrained in the fabric of these peoples minds at this point. Nothing can ever be addressed without everyone being "triggered/offended/snowflake/beta". I made a recent comment on another platform saying people shouldn't use their children as social media clickbait and I was inundated with responses of people calling me 'offended'.

A person whose job it is to maintain professionalism did something extremely unprofessional, more than one person was caught on hot mic being unprofessional, the team apologized for it. And somehow, out of thin air, the reporter is insulted repeatedly and accused of being 'offended'.

What universe are these folks living in where it's not normal to acknowledge and apologize for mistakes or crappy behavior. I would wager 99% of people would expect an apology if a colleague insulted them in front of their audience in the middle of their public work.

 

[Crease]

Unprofessional yes. Requiring a public apology by the entire organization? Not in my opinion, but it's not my organization. I'd call the PR rep into my office, tell them to be more careful during press conferences, and tell them to personally apologize to the reporter.

 

[HansonBro]

Lol the other social media member saying “the flyers suck. Why would you want to play here?” in the background had me rolling.

I think everyone in this thread is missing this part. That's the fireable comment if there is one

 

[93gilmour93]

Unprofessional yes. Requiring a public apology by the entire organization? Not in my opinion, but it's not my organization.

All these organizations that move quickly to apologize really couldn’t care less. They only do it so all the complaining people feel like they got what they want and they move on.

Things like this just bring out the people who are addicted to being offended by everything so organizations just throw them a little cookie so they feel their voices were heard when in reality almost nobody really cares. Everything has become so phony in these situations

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

All these organizations that move quickly to apologize really couldn’t care less. They only do it so all the complaining people feel like they got what they want and they move on.

Things like this just bring out the people who are addicted to being offended by everything so organizations just throw them a little cookie so they feel their voices were heard when in reality almost nobody really cares. Everything has become so phony in these situations

I once again ask: in your line of profession, if you responded with what that media guy said, would you be in the wrong?

Because I feel like you’re too bent out of shape about being offended over someone being offended than the actual unprofessional act.

It feels like this kind of rhetoric is almost engrained in the fabric of these peoples minds at this point. Nothing can ever be addressed without everyone being "triggered/offended/snowflake/beta". I made a recent comment on another platform saying people shouldn't use their children as social media clickbait and I was inundated with responses of people calling me 'offended'.

A person whose job it is to maintain professionalism did something extremely unprofessional, more than one person was caught on hot mic being unprofessional, the team apologized for it. And somehow, out of thin air, the reporter is insulted repeatedly and accused of being 'offended'.

What universe are these folks living in where it's not normal to acknowledge and apologize for mistakes or crappy behavior. I would wager 99% of people would expect an apology if a colleague insulted them in front of their audience in the middle of their public work.

100% agree with you. All these people like the guy mentioned in this post and the mod I responded to, still haven’t replied to the main question I ask about saying those comments in their line of work.

 

[Jared Dunn]

Everyone saying the reporters are "thin skinned" - it doesn't even sound like a reporter complained? The clown show of an organization shared a video publicly where their own staff is swearing on a livestream and insulting reporters, in what world do you think an apology isn't going to follow that? A lot of folks in here just wanting to grind their gears about the fake news epidemic any chance they get lol

For the record PR departments are mostly made up of media members who got tired of doing actual work for a living

 

[93gilmour93]

I once again ask: in your line of profession, if you responded with what that media guy said, would you be in the wrong?

Because I feel like you’re too bent out of shape about being offended over someone being offended than the actual unprofessional act.

I’m my line of work we aren’t all delicate flowers and have no problem talking to each other like this because we never take anything this serious.

You can call it getting bent out of shape but I call it finding it amusing with all the fake rage over nothing burgers like this story.

 

[Jared Dunn]

I’m my line of work we aren’t all delicate flowers and have no problem talking to each other like this because we never take anything this serious.

You can call it getting bent out of shape but I call it finding it amusing with all the fake rage over nothing burgers like this story.

Thank you for your service of being the only real man's man left

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

I’m my line of work we aren’t all delicate flowers and have no problem talking to each other like this because we never take anything this serious.

You can call it getting bent out of shape but I call it finding it amusing with all the fake rage over nothing burgers like this story.

Ah, must be a tradesman.

Imagine saying that to a customer. I’m sure you would face no repercussions.

There is no fake outrage. In fact? Most of the outrage are coming from guys like you, the guys who think the media are evil, and the people who god forbid think apologies are beta male shit.

 

[93gilmour93]

Thank you for your service of being the only real man's man left

I can’t do it alone. I have many others around me to help the process….

 

[Beau Knows]

The reactions to this are bizarre.

Flyers social media manager gets caught on a hot mic saying something they obviously don't endorse, the organization takes 2 seconds to post "whoops sorry about that" on twitter. Everyone laughs and moves on, except for those somehow offended that the Flyers sent out a tweet...

 

[93gilmour93]

Ah, must be a tradesman.

Imagine saying that to a customer. I’m sure you would face no repercussions.

There is no fake outrage. In fact? Most of the outrage are coming from guys like you, the guys who think the media are evil, and the people who god forbid think apologies are beta male shit.

Oh it’s fake outrage. 98% of people really don’t care but pretend they do to gather up those precious brownie points.

 

[Jared Dunn]

I can’t do it alone. I have many others around me to help the process….

And really what would we do without grown men to hit on our teenage girls

 

[thefutures]

I wanna know if I get to laugh at the Flyers or overly sensitive sports reporters.

Ironic the reporters are sensitive when the issue was with a simple question

 

[TooManyHumans]

They acted inappropriately and then appropriately apologized. Not sure what there is to argue about but HFboards always finds a way.

 

[thefutures]

Oh it’s fake outrage. 98% of people really don’t care but pretend they do to gather up those precious brownie points.

Who do we cash in the brownie points with? Or you havnt thought that far yet?

 

[Jared Dunn]

Oh it’s fake outrage. 98% of people really don’t care but pretend they do to gather up those precious brownie points.

And then here you are, like 10 posts deep outraged about outrage lol

 

[93gilmour93]

And really what would we do without grown men to hit on our teenage girls

Well this took a bizarre turn

Who do we cash in the brownie points with? Or you havnt thought that far yet?

Everything is so tribal that it’s within these groups of people who think they must think one way

And then here you are, like 10 posts deep outraged about outrage lol

I’m just responding to comments after a post or two. No outrage my man just stating a couple facts on how people react these days

 

[joestevens29]

Okay, that’s beyond the point though.

The person on the Flyers staff said something unprofessional. They had to issue an apology because of unprofessional conduct.

Does your place of work have a code of conduct?

I know in my line of work I get a lot of questions. A lot of times some dumb ones. But if I responded like that, you bet your ass I’d face some consequences.

Depends who you say shit to. In a case like this there might be a raise in line for somebody.

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

Oh it’s fake outrage. 98% of people really don’t care but pretend they do to gather up those precious brownie points.

Well this took a bizarre turn


Everything is so tribal that it’s within these groups of people who think they must think one way


I’m just responding to comments after a post or two. No outrage my man just stating a couple facts on how people react these days

I don’t care, says man who posts about how much he doesn’t care.

Like I said: if you said what he said to a customer or client, you’d be facing consequences. No matter how manly of a man you are.

 

[93gilmour93]

I don’t care, says man who posts about how much he doesn’t care.

Like I said: if you said what he said to a customer or client, you’d be facing consequences. No matter how manly of a man you are.

Well if people like yourself didn’t keep quoting and responding to my posts I wouldn’t have more than a couple posts. People keep responding to me so if I answer them. It’s simply that. A response to someone talking to me….