The Daily News is one of the biggest papers in America and Manish is one of the best known beat reporters for a New York franchise in the most popular sport in the nation.
Manish made a ton of enemies and I'm sure people would love to talk. And many of the rumors are salacious enough to be interesting to the general public.
It seems obvious why this would be a bigger story if any of the other rumors and tweets are true.
But he writes about the Jets. The paper might have a relatively large circulation, but the only people who read Jets beat stories are Jets fans. No one else cares.
The rumours are not salacious, unless I'm missing something. The worst one I've heard is that he texted Douglas saying he was watching his kid eat ice cream, which is very weird and worthy of getting his credentials pulled and thus fired, but not IMO a story that has any interest beyond what it has already had.
It seems far more likely that the NYDN just ditched him because a beat writer without credentials is next to useless, and his click value is outweighed by the criticism that is now aimed at the paper. I don't buy the WaPo thing, it sounds like Florio grinding his axe in the context of an overinflated view of the importance of what he and his peers - including Mehta - actually do.
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