Pardon my disgust: Charissa Thompson's breach of journalism ethics hurts all of us in sports media

The public already is side-eying our profession, which makes her admission of making up sideline reports that much more damaging.

When we wander into these dark scary woods, the ones where sports journalists utterly screw up, I take a deep breath and wait for “it” to come. Because the “it” always presents itself, in the ugliest of ways, in these situations.

When sports journalists are in the wrong, with our dark, scary woods of this moment being Fox Sports’ sideline reporter Char…