Posted on 07/11/2007 8:31:29 AM PDT by Froufrou
She was just doing some “undercover” investigating.
I googled for the two names together, and the only thing I came up with is this, from a Chicago Tribune blog:
“A rival news station has footage of WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Amy Jacobson wearing a bathing-suit top and with her children at the pool of Craig Stebic, whose wife’s disappearance Jacobson has been reporting on. Journalism watchdogs can be outraged about this, or we can just be grateful that it wasn’t Walter Jacobson.”
That seems to suggest they aren’t related, but who knows?
You only date in Chicago? 12 years is a long time, assuming that the count began when you were more than 18 years old..
lol
My all-time favorite Chicago TV personality is:
Son of Svengoolie
"Berwin!!!"
2007
1985 -
22 years out of date
Holy cow! you're right.
That must mean I am now 65 instead of 55....and I can retire!
* I'm getting to be bad at simple math. I always thought the old "turn signal" thing would be the first sign.
lol!
No - it only suggests that NOBODY needs to see Walter’s ‘body’ in a swimsuit - regardless of the rumors about how many have may have experienced the former Father of the Year’s goods
Not guilty :)
It was a more egregious violation of journalistic ethics for the other station to splice the tape to make it appear to be something that it was not. That decision maker should be fired also, because it speaks to the integrity of that station that they would slant the story. Are they standing behind that decision? I don’t see anyone discussing this.
Second,
This was no “lapse” of judgment. I think it could be more correctly stated... she “revealed her lack of judgment.” Upon further research it would appear that she was known for using questionable methods to get the story.
Notice how even the astute here missed the reporter’s frame of making the firing about the incident rather than about her professionalism and journalistic ethics.
They didn’t fire her for having an affair. Whether her actions were innocent or not is a mute point to the firing. If true, the innocent explanation does speak to her personal character and it is responsible journalism to get her side of the story out there to defend it, but this ‘victim’ crap needs to be challenged at every turn.
It was her unprofessional actions which tarnished the image of her station and journalists in general. Look at the context, please. The appearance of impropriety with a suspect in a missing persons story got her fired. If she had done the same in a story about gardening she wouldn’t have gotten fired even if she did have a lesbian affair with the horticulturist.
She displayed a lack of judgment and ethics on an important story. If you had an employee who made a similarly bone-headed decision in regards to your company’s integrity, you had better fire them too. She tries to shirk her responsibility for her poor choice stating, “The competitive pressure is unbelievable.” That’s tells me what I need to know about her, she bends under the pressure and therein violates the public’s trust. She’s not qualified for the job.
maybe she was doing an undercover report on the safety of sliding doors. she sure tests that door a bunch.
Video is at the link.
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