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This wouldn’t happen to be a daughter of longtime Chicago TV newsman Walter Jacobson would it?
I hope the “Spelling Bee Police” are not out on their skateboards today ...
Huh?
How can you make a lapse in judgement. Does she mean she HAD a lapse in judgement?
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.
Journalists should never wear bikinis. They should wear clown suits.
Given the basic facts, I’m not sure I get the big problem here. So she’s spending time there on a few occasions while following this story, and then at some point he says something like “sure, bring the kids over and they can play in the pool while we talk”. If that’s all there is, then so what?
If she’s having an affair with the guy, then it’s a big family problem for them, and perhaps an ethical issue, but that assumes facts not in evidence.
For those of us who have never lived or watched TV in Chicago, Walter Jacobson has been on Channel 2 there, seemingly, forever, and he has a way of getting on people's nerves, no matter who or what they are.
Now I am wondering whether or not this newly-unemployed "newsette" is a close relative.
I have been out of Chicago since 1985, so I'm about 12 years out of date.
http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=
it is over 6 minutes long, from a rival station.
“I love to go swimmin’ with long-legged women.....”
She was just doing some “undercover” investigating.
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.