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#pukanacua

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#pukanacua is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 6 people shared 13 posts with it — around 0 a day. Activity is down 71% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 11 with 6 posts.

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Murshed Zaheed
@murshedz.bsky.social
9 months ago
LinkedIn feels like a soul-sucking (or soulless) platform in general. That said really appreciated these thoughtful reflections from @davidfucillo.bsky.social re the #PukaNacua debacle that's been the roiling the NFL this week - calling out the access-oriented media shills in sports industry.
David Fucillo's post on LinkedIn

"This Puka Nacua story speaks volumes about access journalism. He was on a streaming show hosted by a noted anti-semite. Over the course of the show he made controversial comments about NFL referees that would normally be a story in its own right. However, he also got into a discussion about planning a celebration for his next touchdown that would involve anti-semitic gestures (link about it in the comments).

Adam Schefter tweeted a link to ESPN’s article about the interview, and his tweet and the article (by another author) were entirely about the referee comments. Other outlets like The Athletic also focused on the comments he made about referees (at least on social media).

Puka posted a weak apology on social media (“I’m sorry if you were offended”) and plenty of folks who did not say anything about his anti-semitic comments/behavior arenow sharing the apology.

I’m skeptical Puka didn’t really know what he was doing, but hopefully the fallout gets him to think about this a little more. Too many young athletes are going on that bigot’s show and really showing their ass. That is a problem in its own regard.

But the transactional nature of access journalism is a serious problem. People like Schefter likely did not focus on the antisemitism due to relationships with agents. And while that’s different than straight up antisemitism, it remains hugely problematic. Trading some positive coverage for a scoop on a transaction can seem relatively harmless, but Schefter making a choice to tweet specifically about the referee part of the video feels like a not shocking end result to this kind of transactional relationship."
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