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Chicago Reporter Fired for Swimming With Missing Mom Lisa Stebic's Husband is 'Devastated'
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Posted on 07/11/2007 8:31:29 AM PDT by Froufrou
A television reporter who lost her job after being videotaped wearing a swimsuit at the home of a man whose estranged wife is missing says she's "devastated," according to a published report. Former WMAQ-TV reporter Amy Jacobson told the Chicago Sun-Times she knows she "made a lapse in judgment," but she thought the station would suspend her and then support her. In a story in the Sun-Times' Wednesday editions, Larry Wert, the station's president and general manager, said the matter was "a complicated issue" and "a close, tough call." He praised Jacobson's work as "a valued member of the team for more than 10 years."
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:31:32 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Froufrou
Lapse in judgment? Assuming that the estranged husband is a suspect in his wife’s disappearance then her actions represent a whole lot more than that.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:34:35 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: Froufrou
Surely reporters would not do a unethical thing like having a relationship with a client surely.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:34:54 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: Froufrou
I believe her side of the story. Where’s the video?
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:36:39 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: OKIEDOC
Surely reporters would not do a unethical thing like having a relationship with a client surely.
Yes they would and stop calling them shirley.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:36:58 AM PDT
by
techcor
To: ChicagoConservative27
PING
This wouldn’t happen to be a daughter of longtime Chicago TV newsman Walter Jacobson would it?
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:37:23 AM PDT
by
Sir Hailstone
(I'm a "Dollar-a-day" Free Republic member. Are you? [http://digitalfarmers.blogspot.com])
To: Froufrou
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:38:00 AM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(If Cho had a nuclear weapon instead of guns, would he have used it?)
To: Gay State Conservative; OKIEDOC; Dixie Yooper
Apparently, his sister invited Jacobson to come over and discuss the case. No mention of the sister being in the video, however.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:38:58 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: Sir Hailstone
To: Gay State Conservative
Another bubble headed blonde info twit does something stupid in Chicago.
Quick. Alert the media...
Oh, they already did.
L
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:39:46 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to ebola.)
To: Froufrou
I hope the “Spelling Bee Police” are not out on their skateboards today ...
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:40:24 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Gay State Conservative
Reading further:
"Jacobson told the newspaper she was on her way to go swimming with her kids on her day off when Stebic's sister, Jill, invited her to the house to discuss the case. "My kids were in the car with me," Jacobson said. "It was a way for me to do my work and have fun with my kids." She said the video didn't show others who were at the home, including Craig's sister and other children."
Not great, but less ominous.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:40:46 AM PDT
by
kaboom
To: techcor
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:41:26 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: Froufrou
... she "made a lapse in judgment,"Huh?
How can you make a lapse in judgement. Does she mean she HAD a lapse in judgement?
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:41:54 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: kaboom
If true....I wouldn’t have fired her.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:44:03 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(“To call illegal aliens, undocumented workers, is like calling drug dealers unlicensed pharmacists.”)
To: Froufrou
The "more to the story" part:
Jacobson told the newspaper she was on her way to go swimming with her kids on her day off when Stebic's sister, Jill, invited her to the house to discuss the case. "My kids were in the car with me," Jacobson said. "It was a way for me to do my work and have fun with my kids."
This sounds like a truthful account -- I can see how the whole situation might have come about. "Well, but I've got my kids with me. We're going to the pool...." "Why not bring them here, and let them use the pool here while we talk?"
Her lapse in judgement is in creating the appearance of wrong-doing. But if she's telling the truth, there's a lot less "there" there than the story would otherwise indicate.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:44:11 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Froufrou
Journalists should never wear bikinis. They should wear clown suits.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:44:25 AM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(Paris Hilton did more time than Sandy Berger.)
To: techcor
Amy, Lisa and now Shirley? Is Shirley a suspect too?
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:45:42 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Froufrou
Somebody needs to work on their Headline proofing.
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:46:29 AM PDT
by
mtg
To: Obadiah
How can you make a lapse in judgement. Does she mean she HAD a lapse in judgement? You caught that ... but not the title?
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posted on
07/11/2007 8:47:17 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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