{"id":7966,"date":"2015-06-17T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2015-06-17T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T03:25:31","slug":"great-scott-score-suspends-bernstein-for-another-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/06\/17\/great-scott-score-suspends-bernstein-for-another-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Scott! Score suspends Bernstein for another tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dan<\/a>

<\/a> Dan Bernstein<\/p><\/div>\n

For the second time in recent months WSCR AM 670<\/a> talk show host Dan Bernstein is in hot water for tweeting an offensive message about a female television personality.<\/p>\n

Bosses of the CBS Radio sports\/talk station yanked Bernstein from his afternoon show Wednesday and ordered him to delete a tweet he posted Monday night about Cheryl Scott, the meteorologist on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7.<\/a><\/p>\n

Minutes after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, Bernstein tweeted: \u201cAnd the real award for this year\u2019s close connection to the @NHLBlackhawks is @CherylScottWX!!\u201d It apparently was an allusion to rumors that linked Scott romantically to one or more Blackhawks players.<\/p>\n

\"Cheryl<\/a>

Cheryl Scott<\/p><\/div>\n

Last March Scott used social media to deny the rumors. Here is the text of her Instagram<\/a> message:<\/p>\n

\"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world . . . would do this, it would change the earth.\" \u2014 William Faulkner<\/em><\/p>\n

Some think they have the right to \"write\" just anything. Let me say this . . . RUMORS will never be truth. I feel bad for anyone who has had to go through a time when their world was interrupted because of hateful, negative words. Let's all remember, we WRITE our OWN stories! Nobody else can steal that pen away.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, bosses of the Score received calls from ABC 7 management and Scott\u2019s agent, attorney Andrew Stroth. Both objected strongly to the tone and inference of Bernstein\u2019s tweet, according to sources familiar with the conversations.<\/p>\n

By Wednesday, Bernstein had been slapped with a one-day suspension and was ordered to remove the message. Score producer Matt Abbatacola filled in for him alongside co-host Terry Boers. Bernstein is expected to return Thursday.<\/p>\n

Score officials did not respond to requests for comment. Stroth declined to comment. Bernstein\u2019s agent, Brian Musburger, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

Last March Bernstein touched off a firestorm<\/a> for initiating an exchange of tweets with Score midday co-host Matt Spiegel that many viewed as sexist and degrading toward Aiyana Cristal, a female anchor\/reporter for Comcast SportsNet Chicago.<\/a><\/p>\n

Both Bernstein and Spiegel apologized<\/a> on the air for their comments.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m an idiot,\u201d Bernstein said at the time. \u201cMy tweet was childish, my tweet was crass and unnecessary, and I\u2019m sorry I dragged an innocent person into it who\u2019s doing a job, and I made an observation I shouldn\u2019t have made, and it was childish and silly and stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second time in recent months WSCR AM 670 talk show host Dan Bernstein is in hot water for tweeting an offensive message about a female television personality. Bosses of the CBS Radio sports\/talk station yanked Bernstein from his afternoon show Wednesday and ordered him to delete a tweet he posted Monday night about... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7971,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}