The Tables Get Turned on Woke ‘Reporters’ Whose Story on an NBA Announcer Got Him Fired

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RedState reported Friday on the despicable actions taken by Portland’s KGW news station that caused the shooting of the brand-new play-by-play commentator for the city’s NBA group, the Trail Blazers, ahead of their home preseason opener versus the Golden State Warriors.

To rapidly summarize, on October 1, the group called 29-year-old Braiden Bell as their brand-new commentator. It was a huge action up for Bell, who had actually formerly called video games for “the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and the G League’s Valley Suns.” Bell was changing seasoned commentator Kevin Calabro, who had actually been with them for over 20 years. This was possibly a long-lasting dream profession chance for him, and one he made clear he was excited to begin. It was likewise one his buddies and the Portland neighborhood praised him on

KGW “reporter” Devon Haskins collected a handful of old tweets from Bell, composed when he was 14 and 15 years of ages, where he made “misogynistic and racist remarks.” Haskins reached out to the Trail Blazers for comment, and before the story was even published, the team announced he had been fired.

Many on social media were rightly disgusted at this example of media-instigated cancel culture run amok, and proceeded to comb through the social media feeds of Haskins and KGW news director John Tierney, the latter of whom promoted the story on his X page, proud that they broke the “news.” It freaked Haskins out so much that he has deleted his X page, probably because he is being held to the standard he held Braiden Bell to:

@KGWNews x @trailblazers discuss the posts of the extremely press reporter who got @braidenbellpxp fired then. @devonhaskins fam it’s 2026 you do not believe we see your hypocrisy. Describe YOUR bigotry then, given that you felt so likely to forecast it onto some boy’s profession. pic.twitter.com/a6GHUUK8SG

— Whom (@WHYYOMAMASTANK) October 2, 2026

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So brave, kids. If you had a shred of journalistic stability, you would do some examination on your own press reporters tweets from years ago that are exceptionally misogynistic and ageist. We need to do much better pic.twitter.com/G0JYIjGssZ

— Jake Woolsey (@weshouldrip) October 2, 2026

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Around the very same time that Braiden Bell was tweeting dumb things as a teen, @KGWNews news director @jtierney6 was publishing things like these on Instagram– as a grownup.

(At the time, he worked as a news manufacturer for KATU, the ABC affiliate in Portland.)pic.twitter.com/ccNFpJ1C6i

— Matthew Keys( @MatthewKeysLive)October 3, 2026

And, surprise, surprise, Tierney is a cancel culture fan:

pic.twitter.com/8DUMAtuZpd– Ralph Amsden (@ralphamsden)October 2, 2026[none”>

. 19659012]Something that likewise should be questioned here is what was the journalistic worth in this reporting? When one composes a story, it needs to have a function, which generally is to serve the neighborhood, the general public. Did it do that in this case? Bell isn’t running for workplace, nor does he currently hold public workplace, nor is he in any other kind of position of power or impact.

There was no reasonable validation for digging through his old tweets, something that Haskins and his coworkers who co-wrote the story mistakenly confessed when they kept in mind towards the end of the piece they composed that Bell had not composed anything comparable given that ending up being an adult:

KGW’s evaluation did not find any offending tweets from Bell after he ended up being an adult. By the latter half of 2015, Bell’s public tweets were nearly totally about sports.

It would be great to ask these concerns of Haskins concerning his supposed journalistic stability and the expected journalistic worth of his story, however, as kept in mind previously, he took the afraid escape by erasing his X account.

With any luck, Bell will arrive at his feet and score another NBA revealing task, presuming there is a group out there that does not bow down at the Altar of Woke.

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