The best response to Mariotti quitting comes from none other than Mr. Roger Ebert. Ebert just tears him up.

As someone who was working here for 24 years before you arrived, I
think you owed us more than that. You owed us decency. The fact that you saved your attack for TV only completes our portrait of you as a rat.

Read the rest here, and don’t miss Ebert’s close. As the kids would say, Mariotti just got owned.