Golf fans had been waiting over a decade for what happened Sunday, as Tiger Woods claimed his first Masters victory since 2005 and his first major victory since 2008. Even casual sports fans who think a couldn’t tell you what a 9-iron is were at the edge of their la-Z-boys, glued to their televisions, with full knowledge that they were witnessing one of the greatest comeback stories in the history of sports.
Annnnnnnd in comes Ella Dorsey.
The Georgia meteorologist for CBS46 claims she received death threats for interrupting the last hour of coverage of The Masters to issue a tornado warning.
To everyone sending me death threats right now: you wouldn’t be saying a damn thing if a tornado was ravaging your home this afternoon. Lives are more important than 5 minutes of golf. I will continue to repeat that if and when we cut into programming to keep people safe.
— Ella Dorsey (@Ella__Dorsey) April 14, 2019
If you think sending death threats to a woman trying to warn the public of a possible death twister spinning through, it becomes more ridiculous when you consider that the network didn’t cut to the weather coverage, but incorporated a split-screen.
It has become evident that people were willing to die for Tiger.
CBS a tornado could be outside my house and I don’t care. Put the masters back on
— BibatJuice (@BibatJuice) April 14, 2019
@CBS I don’t care if there’s a tornado right on top of me…stop interrupting my Masters coverage to talk about tornado warnings. If I die because I didn’t know about the tornado…at least I’m going out enjoying the Masters
— Barles Charkley (@jhennick14) April 14, 2019
I understand there’s tornado warnings going on and CBS needs to tell us. But send me a text or something and put the masters back on
— John Theus (@jtheus71) April 14, 2019
@cbs46 @TheMasters JUST KNOW CBS IS ABSOLUTELY RUINING THIS COVERAGE WITH THIS BULLSHIT TORNADO BULLSHIT, NO ONE NEEDS THE FUCKING NEWS TO TELL THEM TO TAKE COVER
— Dohn Jaly (@dohnjaly69) April 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/brycemdoreen/status/1117449497167192064
https://twitter.com/Brayden404/status/1117475111261605889
Dorsey addressed the threats she and the CBS News team received during the 11 p.m. broadcast Sunday night.
All’s well that ends well I guess.
Wow. Tiger. In an interview yesterday about the earlier start time, he threw out some crazy stat about how it happened in the 70s and Jack Nicklaus won it all. I thought that was epic. Congrats to the 🐐
— Ella Dorsey (@Ella__Dorsey) April 14, 2019
P.S. Hi, I’m Matt.