Posted on 06/30/2023 9:44:06 PM PDT by grundle
Two news directors at a Michigan NBC affiliate were ousted on Thursday following the circulation of an internal memo calling for scaled-back coverage of Pride Month events and directing the station’s journalists to “get both sides” on LGBTQ issues, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
The email, sent earlier this month by Stanton Tang, news director of Grand Rapids-based WOOD-TV, and Amy Fox, the station’s assistant news director, said the “polarizing” nature of Pride events had upset some of its conservative viewers, CNN previously reported.
“We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community,” the memo sent by Fox said. “While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions and they are our viewers.”
“If we are covering Pride events we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue,” she added.
The memo sparked fierce backlash from the newsroom’s staff, prompting the station’s owner, Texas-based Nexstar, to launch an investigation into the matter. In a statement to CNN earlier this month, Nexstar said the email was “not consistent with Nexstar’s values, the way we cover the news, or the respect we have for our viewers” and apologized for offending members of the LGBTQ community and WOOD-TV’s viewers.
Two of the station’s executive producers, Luke Stier and Madeline Odle — who had, among others, publicly voiced their concern over the directive — were fired, the pair announced Friday on Twitter.
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Oh no...the last thing we would want is objectivity about these things and letting them know that these events are a health hazard, have people walking around naked in public, having sex shows in public including in view of minors, giving out candy shaped like genitalia, and a host of other highly disturbing events...so CNN apparently considers it to be a “scandal” that some newsrooms were asked to actually report the facts.
The two who were fired were not the directors who sent the memo directing reporters to get both sides of the story. What gives?
OK, WOOD-TV groomers.
What a confusing mess of an article. I’m having trouble figuring out who got fired... The guys that wrote the note or the ones that bitched and moaned about it?
WOOD is a joke. Always has been.
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No subsequent tyrannical nation implementing thought control has ever come close to the current global environment and its thought control technologies...
Particularly in the communist-controlled United States...
Two of the station’s executive producers, Luke Stier and Madeline Odle— who had, among others, publicly voiced their concern over the directive — were fired, the pair announced Friday on Twitter.
So WHO were fired? Stanton Tang and Amy Fox? for Luke Stier and Madeline Odle?
WHO cares?
Anybody dumb enough to watch NBC in 2023 isn’t paying attention. Out of the ashes, eventually there will be accurate news reporting one day. Until then I can’t be made to care.
NBC is Comcast.
FU, Comcast
Effeminacy, running rampant.
DIE policies in full effect!
These days, “Dog Bites Man” story would be that, after the investigation, the executives instructing news personnel to cover “both sides” were fired in order to avoid a decrease in the company’s DIE score.
In the “Man Bites Dog” version of the story, the pantywaist LGBTQIA+MYNAMEISLEGION complainers are voted off the island. This despite the inevitable negative impact on the company’s DIE score.
The article ends in this (confusing) way:
On Thursday, Gary Weitman, a Nexstar spokesperson, confirmed to CNN that the company had made changes to WOOD-TV’s newsroom leadership team to “ensure its ability to continue providing outstanding local news coverage and service to the Grand Rapids community and surrounding area.”
“As these are internal personnel decisions involving matters of personal privacy, we will decline further comment,” Weitman said.
Two of the station’s executive producers, Luke Stier and Madeline Odle — who had, among others, publicly voiced their concern over the directive — were fired, the pair announced Friday on Twitter.
Look who owns Comcast
Typical
At least one of our local Knoxville stations emphasizes all things liberal, while never giving the conservative side ANY time.
“I’m having trouble figuring out who got fired... “
The good guys got fired because they wanted de-emphasize sin, and give equal coverage about normalcy. (At least that’s how I read it.)
We kicked Comcast to the curb in 2016. Now we’re buying a new house in a pretty rural area and Xfinity is the only internet provider. Cringe.
Can't have balanced reporting. WEF does not allow it.
This could be good news but it’s very deliberately vague.
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