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Reporter Jessica Sanchez gets the best of photobombing drunk 49ers fan

BY Jillian Raftery  on January 31, 2013 @ 12:23 pm (Updated: 1:16 pm - 1/31/13 )


Many people are now saying this confrontation between an Orlando reporter and video-bombing drunk 49ers fan was staged.

Jessica Sanchez, a reporter with WKMG in Orlando, was in New Orleans filming a live story on the run-up to the Super Bowl when a drunk '49ers fan started talking right behind her in the camera shot.

Sanchez, fed up, gave the woman her five seconds of fame with a zinger, asking the unnamed woman how long she had had an STD. The statement seemed spontaneous, but some are criticizing Sanchez, saying it was faked. Some who think the reporter's reaction was real are calling for her resignation because she was rude to the '49ers fan.

Dori thinks this the clip was real, and that the reporter's reaction was gutsy and appropriate.

News anchor Ursula Reutin can understand why Sanchez reacted the way she did. She thinks Sanchez planned what she was going to say, and just decided to embarrass the next person who interrupted her.

"Any TV reporter will tell you that it's so frustrating, when you're doing a live shot you get those people," said Ursula, "you have to deal with these people who want to interrupt your live report."

Despite online commenters who are siding with the drunk '49ers fan, producer Jake thinks the rowdy woman had it coming.

"It serves people right for interrupting a live shot," said Jake.

Some commenters are saying that Sanchez should be fired for making fun of the drunk football fan, while others say she deserves a raise. What do you think?

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  • grassman20 wrote...
    Raise. Obviously.
    January 31, 2013 1:12 pm
    Anyone who thinks she should be fired is probably a closet '49ers fan and should not be granted an opinion here.
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  • Mavila wrote...
    What else would you expect...
    January 31, 2013 1:48 pm
    on Bourbon street at night? I don't think the reporter acted professionally.
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    Screw pofessionalism.
    January 31, 2013 2:31 pm
    Rather than trying to hold this reporter to some "standard," I'm going to applaud her for correcting someone's behavior in a way that impacted them. Frankly, there's a lot of people who act innappropriately at all times because nobody ever puts them in their place. (I'm looking at you, the vast majority of MYNW commenters...) If more people got rude reations to rude actions, we may live in a slightly better place... Or New York.
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  • Mavila wrote...
    I don't know...
    January 31, 2013 6:16 pm
    seems to me that the reporter accused this person of having an STD on live television. Slander and libel comes to mind.
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    If this was spontaneous
    January 31, 2013 2:47 pm
    give her a raise!

    Besides, aren't ALL 49er fans drunks? ;-)

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  • irony wrote...
    i love it
    February 1, 2013 10:45 am
    they got owned and it will be on the web forever
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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    On another note...
    February 2, 2013 11:10 am
    I just wonder what she did to get all those beads...
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