Reporter jonathan martin

Reporter jonathan martin, Mistaken Case of Jonathan Martin Twitter Identification The bullying controversy centered on former Miami Dolphin’s rookie Jonathan Marin and whether the bullying he endured was racist motivated or driven-by management & senior players putting a recalcitrant starter in his place continue. However, one aspect of it has pulled in a New York Times reporter who happens to share the same name.

The name is about all the two have in common. Martin the reporter is white and middle-aged, and Martin the football player is a 24-year-old 312-pound beefcake linebacker who is African-American. Besides that, their

Twitter handles are quite different with the reporters handle being @jmartNYT and the professional football player’s being @J_Martin71. However, football fans eager to weigh in on the matter are finding those dissimilarities to be what are sometimes referred to as “distinctions without a difference” and are tweeting the reporter comments which ought to be going to the athlete. In many cases, the tweets contain some hateful words.

This has prompted Martin the reporter to respond back clarifying that he is not the athlete in question. He has also reproached those twitter fans by reminding them of the interpersonal civility online users often lose when making comments to another person via social networking.