Reporter fired for being "Angry Stripper"

[gargamel]

Houston Chronicle Reporter Fired for Moonlighting as Stripper

Sarah Tressler, the Texas journalist outed this week for working as a society reporter for the Houston Chronicle by day and as a stripper by night, has been fired by the newspaper.

Tressler confirmed that she was fired in an interview with ABC News in which she said the newspaper let her go for not having told her supervisors about her off-duty dancing.

A rival newspaper took care of that task earlier this week; the Houston Press, after discovering a blog Tressler kept about her work as a stripper, published an article about her double life.

I'm not convinced that she didn't want to be "outed" to make for a better story (she tweeted pictures of her face and listed her name as Sarah Tress, which is just an "ler" short of her real name), but I still think it's ridiculous that she was fired for working as a stripper.

Here's her twitter feed and her Diary of an Angry Stripper blog. It's not written like something that you'd expect from a reporter at a major newspaper, but since it's her personal blog and isn't written under her real name, I don't think that's really a fair standard to judge it by.

[Northendzone]

Noticed the above pic is got a copyright symbol by Facebook, is that really correct? She posted that picture of herself on Facebook. This is the best mistake since the Daniel smith campaign bus/boobs are wheels incident.....

I quickly scanned the blog, she seems just a little bitter.

[4X4]

Thanked for putting a pic in the op and not making me click a link to see if she's hot.

[bluejays]

I assume she was an on-camera personality? I definitely would not fire her.

[Lobotroth]

She looks like a younger, thinner Lorraine Kelly.

Spoiler!

[getbak]

Originally Posted by fleury

I assume she was an on-camera personality? I definitely would not fire her.

"Society" writer for the newspaper.

I would think that the people who are featured in and/or read the society pages of the local newspaper are uptight old women whose husbands spend too much time and money at the local strip clubs.

[Locke]

Well, she does look angry, you've got to give her that.

[Calgary Highlander]

"I was a stripper/reporter/professor and now I'm just a stripper/professor, so I don't think that's too bad."

[freedogger]

Originally Posted by Lobotroth

She looks like a younger, thinner Lorraine Kelly.

Spoiler!

Shoulda put a NSFW on that!