I’m going to try out this new category after frequent protests here when Ethics Alarms designates someone an Ethics Hero for doing his or her job.
In a now viral moment, CBS News Miami reporter Samantha Rivera stiff-armed a fan who attempted to muscle into her shot during in a live broadcast after Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals. And she never stopped smiling or talking.
That’s my idea of feminism in action, and exactly what any professional should do. Finish the job, deal with unexpected challenges, persevere, and don’t be a weenie.
The main thrust of the news coverage of the incident is that Rivera has received death threats on social media for—what, exactly? Keeping an asshole from getting his drunken face on TV? I don’t get it, but concentrating on the social media reaction is giving undue importance to moral luck. Rivera’s sterling conduct was in the ethics books as soon as she did it.
Parents should show that clip to their daughters…heck, show it to sons, too.
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Pointer: Other Bill
Ethics Alarms 
I don’t know what that idiot was thinking or if he was thinking at all. You NEVER interrupt a reporter in the middle of a broadcast or anyone else doing his/her job, certainly not that close up, and not for that purpose, which is the ultimate stupid purpose (shouting stupid stuff about a sports team). I have had limited contact with reporters, but it’s always been respectful, and I would be EMBARASSED seeing myself on TV later acting the fool. I did take a picture from a distance of Martha McCallum of Fox when she came to a WW2 weekend event and was interviewing one of the veterans, and I did later shake hands with her while she was signing copies of her latest book. No one would have dared do something else stupid because she had a pretty intimidating security detail. I applaud Samantha for doing her own security, it says more about the idiot who tried to horn in on her than about her.
BTW, would you apply the same thinking to conservative figures like Karl Rove, who simply brushed off a Code Pink attempt to perform a “citizen’s arrest” on him while on stage?
Oh sure. Keeping one’s poise and focus under stress and the unexpected is the mark of a pro. Karl’s jerk, but he’s a professional jerk.
Point of clarification: could “keeping one’s poise” include a throat punch?
-Jut
Hah!
Sure!
Looking at the YouTube comments people seem to love her.
Google deletes the comments that make her feel unsafe….
Why can’t “fans” like that respect the space of someone who’s doing their job? Basic civility. A bedrock requirement for a society to function.