UK reporter slags boss in drunk YouTube rant
p2pnet news view | Movies:- UK journalist Adam Smith, aka Steve Zacharanda, a reporter for the Birmingham Mail, took a week’s vacation to go to Miami for the Barack Obama election campaign.
Result? A YouTube video with Smith, considerably more than three sheets to the wind, slumped on a Miami sidewalk, drunkenly writing a report on his laptop.
And telling his boss to phuk off.
“Rather than a ‘happy to be here, thanks’ response, he launched into a vitriolic tirade against his editor and the paper for which he worked,” says the Herald Sun, going on:
“He also described his relief that the BBC would be covering the event, as it would allow him to ‘cut and paste’, he gloated.”
Smith is, “understood to have accepted a redundancy package along with 65 of his fellow employees, and is due to leave at the end of next week,” says The Independent.
In a follow-up YouTube video, “I was off duty, I am on official holiday working at the South Beach Miami Barack Obama campaign where I had just done an 18-hour shift trying to make the world a better place,”Smith says.
“Please check every BBC News outlet and see if I have cut and pasted anything. I have not, it was a joke and should be taken in the spirit it was said.”
Herald Sun – British journalist unemployed after blasting boss on YouTube, November 10, 2008
The Independent - US election reporter’s drunken ‘resignation’ lands on YouTube, November 8, 2008
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