a) Helwani is a reporter, his job is literally to report the stuff he got in trouble forautiger730 wrote:I was listening to Rogan talk about the Helwani situation. He made a good point about. It wasn't like he broke something awful they were trying to keep quiet. He jumped them on info every one was going to get, and it's not the first time this has happened either. Joe said what he was told is that Helwani was told to quit reporting this stuff because they know he's getting it from someone in the company and it is going to cost someone their job when they find out who it is and Helwani said he wouldn't, so they banned him. Now let's say, you're running a company and you've got a new secret product that you've put together a big promotion for. You've put in tons of money and time to put the deal together, plan the announcement and when to put out your promo, then along comes some douche who announces it before you and kills pretty much all the hype and any impact your announcement would have had. Wouldn't you be pissed about it? Wouldn't you want to find out who in the company was leaking that kind of info and cut off access for the one guy that is always putting that info out? I can see the UFC's reasoning for it, if what Joe said was true.
b) Helwani isn't an employee of UFC, although there is grey area here
c) stuff like your example happens ALL the time and is leaked ALL the time, by reporters with inside sources.
d) not sure how he's a douche, he's doing his job. i think it'd be a bit unfair if you were called a douche for doing what you're paid to do
e) i don't blame UFC for being pissed. but its their own fault for not managing the news better. you can make the life of a reporter difficult if you don't like him, but to ban him from the events and cutting his credentials for essentially doing his job properly is sour grapes.
