News Directors Ousted For Telling Staff To Get Both Sides Of Pride Coverage

[Stormy Daniels]

4 fired at West Michigan TV station after news leadership ordered scale back of Pride coverage

Two employees were fired for leaking the memo that directed reduced Pride coverage in response to angry viewers, according to media news outlet The Desk.

www.mlive.com

Seems it was both. 2 were fired for the memo and two were fired for leaking it to the outside press

Ah, so the plot thickens. Funny that CNN is selective in the way they report the info. It seems like they want to jump at the chance to smear a competitor, but at the same time they ultimately want to back their play.

For all the talk about how American freedom ensures free flow of information, compared to the state run media of countries like Russia and China, it really seems like America is heading in the same direction, just through different means. Instead of state power suppressing the free flow of information, we have corporate power doing the heavy lifting to achieve the same effect. Real news is on its deathbed in this country.

 

[Independent thinker]

WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids fires 4 employees over Pride month coverage memo​

Grand Rapids-based television station WOOD-TV fired four employees after an internal memo from station directors said producers and reporters need to stop covering LGBTQ+-related topics during Pride month.

The two people responsible for creating and distributing the memo, news director Stanton Lang and assistant news director Amy Fox, were terminated from their positions, according to Crain's Grand Rapids Business.

Two producers who openly spoke out against the memo on social media were also fired from their positions.

Producers Madeline Odle and Luke Steir publicly criticized the message on Twitter on June 15, saying it didn’t represent the beliefs of the entirety of the newsroom. On Friday, Steir announced via Twitter that both he and Odle were fired and looking for new positions.

WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids fires 4 employees over Pride month coverage memo

WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids has fired four employees, two news directors and two producers, after a memo discouraging Pride month coverage became public.

www.freep.com

So, everyone got fired. Both who gave the original order and two who opposed it.

They may or may not be balanced in their coverage of news... but they are balanced when it comes to firing people.

Which only shows that news coverage is biased and they do it purposefully.

 

[Independent thinker]

Okay but they aren't your staff. You and they are the staff of the people higher up the food chain and the upstairs made the call. Presumably it was a business decision.

It is a business decision for the media to report only one side of the story.

 

[Magnus]

Which only shows that news coverage is biased and they do it purposefully.

Actually, it shows no such thing. What it actually shows is that when management wants them to report biased news, reporters take a principal stand and quit.

Talk about bias. Go back and read it over.

 

[Independent thinker]

Ah, so the plot thickens. Funny that CNN is selective in the way they report the info. It seems like they want to jump at the chance to smear a competitor, but at the same time they ultimately want to back their play.

For all the talk about how American freedom ensures free flow of information, compared to the state run media of countries like Russia and China, it really seems like America is heading in the same direction, just through different means. Instead of state power suppressing the free flow of information, we have corporate power doing the heavy lifting to achieve the same effect. Real news is on its deathbed in this country.

CNN selective? No, tell me it ain't so!

 

[Dekster]

It is a business decision for the media to report only one side of the story.

No different than what Fox and MSNBC do.

 

[Independent thinker]

No different than what Fox and MSNBC do.

Exactly my point. Lefties believe that the MSM tell the truth and facts without a bias and yet they don't. They are no different that FOX or MSNBC.

 

[scruffy]

Um. Yes, but aren't you in....California?

Sometimes. Mostly i'm elsewhere lately. We escaped CA, I'm the only one who has to go back occasionally.