Just two days after releasing one of the most superb on air Freudian slips in recent memory CSN Chicago reporter Susannah Collins is out of a job having been fired by the network on Thursday.
But if a statement from CSN Chicago vice president and general manager Phil Bedella is to be believed Collins' dismissal wasn't the result of her unfortunate reference to the Chicago Blackhawks' tremendous amount of sex during a live hit after Tuesday night's playoff win one she quickly corrected to tremendous amount of success.
Instead Bedella said Collins release was related to circumstances unrelated to her on air remarks.
Could those circumstances involve Collins prior involvement with Sports Nutz an online sports comedy show that to be fair is a little or a lot on the NSFW side Between June 2009 and April 2010 Collins served as the co host on 16 episodes of the show the topics of which included the Jew Fantasy Draft and Douchebag Nation among others. The edgy videos came into the spotlight in the days after the incident.
One certainly could understand if an employer decided not to hire Collins a 2001 University of Illinois journalism grad in the first place using her appearances in these videos as justification for choosing a different direction. (That didn t stop several other major outlets including Showtime MLB.com and NBC from bringing her on board since the release of the videos however.)
It could be that CSN Chicago simply wasn t aware of Collins Sports Nutz stint when they hired her in September 2012 which if true would represent a lack of due diligence on the part of CSN Chicago.
It takes little more than a simple online search to dig up Collins professional history and she s not at all shy about her involvement with the show. Collins' bio on her own website even speaks of her experience with Sports Nutz saying it led to some of her later reporting gigs.
Others have suggested that the directive to fire Collins could have come down from someone in CSN Chicago's ownership group which in addition to NBC Universal includes Cubs owner Tom Ricketts Jerry Reinsdorf the owner of both the Bulls and White Sox and Rocky Wirtz the Blackhawks' owner and chairman.
That might be the most understandable explanation for a decision to part ways but it certainly wouldn t make it the right one.
Whatever the case Collins firing looks like an extreme overreaction either to an innocent on air slip up or a controversial past career stop that was very public knowledge without a better explanation.
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