Chronicle hires Altuve-hater as Astros beat writer

A Rangers fan lol. C'mon Chronicle.

 

What's up with hiring ranger fans to be the Astros beat writer

 

I mean, the chronicle is an absolute trash tier paper. It survives solely due to a monopoly as the only major print paper in a massive market.

This is very on brand for their columnist choice in regard to the Astros. She's gonna hold her nose and follow the team. She can get in as many passive aggressive swipes as she can along the way...they seem to encourage that. Prop up the Rangers while she's at it.

I would rather have good print media that actually challenged the organization, but we don't really do that here.

 

While I certainly don’t like that she got the job it is a terrible look bullying her online and trying to get her fired.

 

Being a fan of the team should not be a requirement to cover them as a journalist. Too many reporters are fanboys which is why most of their stories are written like it was produced by the team's PR department. As long as she's objective in her coverage, that's all that matters.

 

What they’re doing to this girl is gross and reflects poorly on Astros fans.

 

Agreed but as a journalist she shouldn’t agree to the false narrative that Altuve cheated. Personally that makes her less credible I do not condone the twitter attacks on her btw

 

Not sure what a "sports culture reporter" is, but Matt Kawahara is still the beat writer, right? He joined the Chronicle last year to take over Chandler on the beat. He used to cover the A's, so we have two now that used to cover our intradivision foes.

 

She shouldn’t have been hired to begin with. Someone failed to do their research. I think the question at minimum bares asking.

 

I can’t believe I’m taking up for this chick lol
Was she a journalist when she made those posts?
98% of the world believes all that junk about 2017.

 

I hate the cowboys, Yankees, dodgers, and Steelers but if I were offered a job on those markets I’d take them.
I’m not sure being a fan of the local team is an enforceable job requirement

 

She can kick rocks as far as I'm concerned. I also find it funny how many white knights I've seen coming to her aid that are Astros fans. Mind you, these are same fans that are total asshats on twitter.

 

Eff this broad. Not being a fan of the team you're covering is ok, but being an outspoken hater from a position of complete ignorance, not ok. What an awful hire. We haven't had a decent crop of writers covering the team for awhile now. She and Chandler Rome can both go to hell

 

I'm against trashing her on social media....but every true Astros fan should be cancelling their subscription to the Chron as a form of protest. The Chron is awful anyway.

 

There's nothing wrong with taking the job but if you publicly tweeted a bunch of s*** talking, slandering the team and players you are going to start covering then you should expect people to rightfully give you s*** for it. Its sports talk, old bad takes are made fun of all the time. She literally said she respects no one on the astros, you think people in Houston are not gonna give her s*** about saying that??? LOL

 

Rome wasn't great, but he didn't call the greatest Astro ever who is still the leader of the team a cheater. That does not help you build relationships inside the clubhouse. I doubt she will get the access she needs to write anything interesting.

Rome had the same issue with access.