While reporting on “State Patty’s Day” in State College, Pa., Sunday, Penn Live reporter Anna Orso saw Penn State quarterback Michael O’Connor stumble and then disparage the school’s new football coach James Franklin.
I just saw Michael O’Connor and Antoine White walking down Beaver Ave. O’Connor could hardly stand, fell into the street, was almost hit.
— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) March 1, 2014
When White told O’Connor to calm down so coach doesn’t find out, he responded “Franklin doesn’t know sh–.”
— Anna Orso (@anna_orso) March 1, 2014
One player apparently demanded Orso delete the tweet and called her three times, Donald Gilliland reports. He and O’Connor both tweeted at Orso, then deleted their tweets. Someone tried to get into her account. Then fans began piling on: Some evinced a basic misunderstanding of what it means to be out in public (“Invasion of privacy here,” “I am surprised they can take off the record quotes and tweet them as quotes“), but other tweets were a lot less easy to dismiss:
.@anna_orso I hate to sound like a thug on Twitter, but you should probably get hit by a car for tweeting this
— Ross Silver (@rsilver_22) March 1, 2014
@SpreadHDGFX @anna_orso she’s being a bitch. That’s just not something you report on. They’re college kids. Just desperate for followers…
— Jimmy K (@JimmyKoury) March 1, 2014
@anna_orso @TheTrueQB I saw Anna Orso putting on quite a show at the End Zone last weekend…almost fell off the pole. Worth reporting…
— Pat Chambers (@PatChambers_PSU) March 1, 2014
A Penn State spokesperson says the school is “looking into the matter,” Gilliland reports.
Correction: This post originally said Orso was reporting on a St. Patrick’s Day event. She was in fact reporting on “State Patty’s Day,” the region’s annual “‘rootinest, tootinest, shootinest’ binge-drinking extravaganza.”
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