Posted on 07/11/2008 10:20:12 AM PDT by redrunner
In my last enduring image of Fanchon Stinger, she was flat on her back. It was last week and the perky FOX2 Morning co-anchor was tightening her abs on camera with a fitness expert, one of those fluffy, get-bikini-ready-for-summer feature segments that separate morning newscasts from the somber evening reports.
Turns out the vision was symbolic, since Stinger is now truly down, and could be out. The most flamboyantly named news personality in our market has herself been stung: suspended indefinitely by Detroit's FOX affiliate due to her alleged association with developer Rayford Jackson, a central figure in the latest scandal that's enveloping Detroit City Council, the $47 million Synagro sludge-hauling deal. ADVERTISEMENT SEE ALSO Idiot Boxing archives More Television Stories
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Like sludge itself, this imbroglio is oozing out of City Hall and engulfing everything in its path. When was the last time you remember a controversy surrounding local politicians that also snared a member of Detroit's news media as part of the story? Stinger, a nominal member of FOX2's Problem Solvers unit, has become a problem the station needs to solve. When ace FOX2 investigative reporter Scott Lewis uncovered evidence Stinger accompanied Jackson to a private meeting with Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers — well, that's a bit of information that your news director or station management might really like to know.
And while early deadline demands of the Independence Day holiday necessitated that this column be written last week, there's slim chance she will be back at co-anchor Alan Lee's side by the time you read this. Calls to FOX2 general manager Jeff Murri for comment were returned by a New York spokesperson for the FOX Television Stations group, who succinctly confirmed that "Fanchon Stinger is on paid administrative leave pending further investigation." (Repeated attempts to contact Stinger proved fruitless.)
That, friends, is big. Never in 25 years of covering TV and media in this city can I remember a phone call to a local station receiving an immediate response from corporate ownership. Clearly FOX is taking this matter as seriously as Barack Obama's candidacy. As far as I can tell, none of Stinger's FOX2 Morning colleagues have even acknowledged her absence on the air.
ML Elricks article in the Free Press is here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080710/NEWS01/80710031&imw=Y
oops... I copied the ad in the article... my bad...
Vaporized?
The Feds are involved in this, and Kim Worthy is making other chess play moves.
We need a stem to stern cleaning out of all that puss that is Detroit City Government in order or the whole region to heal.
Michigan political mess ping.
They did a story this week that Fanchon is currently suspended “with pay.” Scott Lewis even did a “Problem Solver” expose on this story.
The story cracked me up especially the blip about a reporter being a contributor to Bush even though she was reporting on the Bush-Kerry campaigns.
First I think old Debbie got it wrong because no supporter of Racist Louie is going to contribute a dime to a Republican. Secondly if you disqualified EVERY media skank that contributed to the Democrats, 90% of the media would be gone in a nanosecond
not guilty...
I’m glad this thread makes sense to someone.
another local piece on this one
TV anchor promoted sludge deal
Synagro says it paid Fox 2’s Fanchon Stinger for PR
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080709/UPDATE/807090463
Her and hubby had some nice cars..
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
Add the costs of the cars up. Look at her salary. It took the FBI to figure out this no-brainer. Glad to see Windsor putting the kabash on the sale of the tunnel as well. The cherry on the cake will be when Beatty turns evidence and Reeves, Conyers, and King Kwame get some time at the grey bar hotel.
You too.....huh?
Thanks for the ping, grellis. Thanks very much for the link, ps2. WOW! Very, very interesting.
A BIG THANKS to Debbie Schlussel!
Them Canadians got smarts, eh?!
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