Christopher Sign, Birmingham TV anchor and former Alabama football player, dead in apparent suicide

[Mosby]

Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police.

At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old Sign dead.

Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide.

https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/christopher-sign-birmingham-tv-anchor-former-alabama-football-player-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html

[ZZenith]

1. Hmm. Wonder what he was depressed about.

“ While a reporter and morning anchor at ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Sign broke the story of the June 2016 secret tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Sign wrote a book about his experience called Secret on the Tarmac.”

From the link.

[jimfields33]

2. I never heard of him

I did a search. He was good looking at least to me. I don’t fault him for doing a story. That was his job. Plus 5 years later? Doubt that was even remotely the reason. People have problems and don’t know how to handle them. Like is tough.

[ZZenith]

3. I think one can glean a few things about the man from just this one book, actually.

The reviews of it regard it as poorly-written tripe that got him his fifteen minutes of fame on Fox and Friends and precious little else. He wasn’t merely doing his job as a journalist, he was trying to capitalize on the right-wing media feeding frenzy. The whackos on the right will, of course, add his name to the list of people they hold the Clintons responsible for whacking, but nothing can be done about that.

Life is tough and people often make it tougher by making poor decisions.