{"id":574436,"date":"2026-04-09T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:19:07","slug":"dianna-russini-returned-to-twitter-on-thursday-and-it-didnt-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574436\/","title":{"rendered":"Dianna Russini returned to Twitter on Thursday, and it didn’t go well"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest story in the NFL continues to be the recent photos of, and the denials issued by, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and New York Times reporter Dianna Russini.<\/p>\n

Everyone is talking about it. Most of the people who cover sports media have written about it. Even NBC News had an item about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reasonable minds differ on what the photos show, and what they don\u2019t show. A significant question lingers as to how the photos came to be. Between accident and design, it feels like someone was looking for something.<\/p>\n

As mentioned on Wednesday\u2019s #PFTPM<\/a>, the situation also invites scrutiny of Russini\u2019s past reporting. (Alex Reimer of Awful Announcing has ventured down<\/a> that specific rabbit hole.) It will impact the reactions to her future reporting. <\/p>\n

It also created a practical question as to the right way to assume a business-as-usual presence on social media. <\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, Russini authored her first tweet since the situation came to light. It was innocuous; she posted an item<\/a> that ran a link to an article about the NFL\u2019s ongoing collective bargaining brouhaha with its officials. It felt like a trial balloon. <\/p>\n

If so, it fell flat.<\/p>\n

The responses were as toxic, mean, and hateful as anyone would imagine, given the toxic, mean, and hateful nature of the Twitter ecosystem. There were, as of this posting, more than 2,300 responses to the tweet.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s next? Given that the job of the NFL insider relies heavily on winning the thumb races to Twitter, it\u2019s going to be hard to abandon the platform. But she may have to.<\/p>\n

Yes, things tend to blow over. Collectively, we have the brains of goldfish. In this specific case, however, the facts are sufficiently unique from the typical merry-go-round \u2014 and Russini\u2019s job is sufficiently polarizing in nature \u2014 to invite the same kind of response to everything she reports from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest story in the NFL continues to be the recent photos of, and the denials issued by,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-574436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}