A lot of people are supporting this person on social media. I support her as well but this story has played out before. What she said was accurate but the station is caving to the PC crowd. She should have seen it coming.

yes, it "smells" like an excuse to let her go. -- j
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True but the station should, in my opinion, taken more time to judge the reaction. It seems like small vocal PC groups can force companies to do things like this and in my opinion it squashes debate on key issues. She is a good anchor and will land on her feet but I'm thinking it should have been handled differently.

I agree, khalling. I'm one of these crazy people who thinks, that barring some contractual agreement, an employer should be able to fire any employee, at any time for any reason. It is their business.

I like the news anchor in question but I'm a little surprised she got herself into this mess. The post was public and she should have known there would be opposition to it. The station is now getting a lot of backlash to the firing. This has been handled badly by everyone.

All emplyment should be "at will". Anything else is usually due to government meddling. Let the market decide.

Yes. I think the people here that are arguing the station should not be able to fire her are making the wrong argument. The sad thing is that all the focus her firing and not on the content of her post. Hope that changes.

Hi Ed. In any disagreement with a friend I give them a chance to explain themselves. The anchor involved was suspended and the station issued a public apology. The anchor then also apologized and she was still fired. Seems an over reaction to me.

I completely agree, and unless those details are surfaced, there's NO way to determine if the 'firing' was 'justified' or not. It all may depend on the legalese in the contract.
I hope someone digs down deep enough to uncover those kinds of vital facts.
Without them, we're all just flapping our gums about the possible 'unfairness of it all' and that's a waste of oxygen.

Thanks JA. I have talked to some people locally about this and while I think it was a bad decision the station had the right to fire her. The post should have served as a starting point for serious dicussions about what is going wrong in some of our local communities but it has devolved into a discussion about her firing and Facebook posts. You said it better than I have. I hope someone realizes it's a discussion we need to have but I doubt it will happen.

Great point. The post could almost be considered an editorial. Surprised she didn't have to have it approved.

Unless there's some stupid clause in their contract designed to protect or shield the Employer from something an employee might say or not say.

When I took the retirement buyout offer from my last employer, it included a clause that I promised to "never publicly say anything negative about the Company after that."

I'd just LOVE the ACLU or some similar organization's lawyers to sink their fangs into That Level of Bullshit.

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Fine, but if you want that to happen, you'll probably need to pursue a test case up through the Supreme Court to see it happen.

Such is Life in The US Today.
Sad.

Shit... I've got some friends, relatives and ex-girlfriends who'd fire me for MY beliefs if they could... :))))))))))

Unless you're afraid of competition of negative repercussions of virtually Anything They Might Do in their 'personal time' that could 'harm you or your business.'
Americans, both individuals and businesses, for decades now, have been seeking Perfect Safety From Everything, and this is but another page in the handbook.

I know she is upset about the firing but I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and told her I can't believe she thought there wouldn't be some blowback from this. Any time you write or speak about race you run the risk of it being blown out of context.

All true. Locally I have heard some people argue that she shouldn't be fired for a Facebook post. I told a friend of mine they have a right to fire her but in this case it was a bad decision.

Hi Carl. I haven't seen it in any news stories. Someone on Facebook re-posted it. Here it is:

Next to “If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times,” I remember my mom most often saying to my sister and me when we were young and constantly fighting, “If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.” I've really had nothing nice to say these past 11 days and so this page has been quiet. There's no nice words to write when a coward holding an AK-47 hoses down a family and their friends sharing laughs and a mild evening on a back porch in Wilkinsburg. There's no kind words when 6 people are murdered. When their children have to hide for cover and then emerge from the frightened shadows to find their mother's face blown off or their father's twisted body leaking blood into the dirt from all the bullet holes. There's just been nothing nice to say. And I've been dragging around this feeling like a cold I can't shake that rattles in my chest each time I breathe and makes my temples throb. I don't want to hurt anymore. I'm tired of hurting.
You needn't be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday. I will tell you they live within 5 miles of Franklin Avenue and Ardmore Boulevard and have been hiding out since in a home likely much closer to that backyard patio than anyone thinks. They are young black men, likely teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They've grown up there. They know the police. They've been arrested. They've made the circuit and nothing has scared them enough. Now they are lost. Once you kill a neighbor's three children, two nieces and her unborn grandson, there's no coming back. There's nothing nice to say about that.
But there is HOPE. And Joe and I caught a glimpse of it Saturday night. A young, African American teen hustling like nobody's business at a restaurant we took the boys to over at the Southside Works. This child stacked heavy glass glasses 10 high and carried three teetering towers of them in one hand with plates piled high in the other. He wiped off the tables. Tended to the chairs. Got down on his hands and knees to pick up the scraps that had fallen to the floor. And he did all this with a rhythm and a step that gushed positivity. He moved like a dancer with a satisfied smile on his face. And I couldn't take my eyes off him. He's going to Make It.
When Joe paid the bill, I asked to see the manager. He came over to our table apprehensively and I told him that that young man was the best thing his restaurant had going. The manager beamed and agreed that his young employee was special. As the boys and we put on our coats and started walking out -- I saw the manager put his arm around that child's shoulder and pat him on the back in congratulation. It will be some time before I forget the smile that beamed across that young worker's face -- or the look in his eyes as we caught each other's gaze. I wonder how long it had been since someone told him he was special.
There's someone in your life today -- a stranger you're going to come across -- who could really use that. A hand up. A warm word. Encouragement. Direction. Kindness. A Chance. We can't change what's already happened, but we can be a part of what's on the way. Speak up. Reach out. Dare to Care. Give part of You to someone else. That, my friends, can change someone's course. And then -- just maybe THEN -- I'll start feeling again like there's something nice to say.

I remember that one. She should have been fired for sheer stupidity.

The first amendment limits what the government can do. It does not limit individuals or corporations. You cannot be arrested for speech but you certainly can be fired.

With all due respect, I disagree. The First Amendment applies only to the Government as far as free speech. If I'm an employer and find out through any public posting that they are a white supremacist, or promote ISIS, they're gone. Further, IMO shunning, refusing to associate, or refusing service in your business to someone who holds repugnant or immoral ideas is a proper exercise of Freedom of Association, which implies the right not to associate. Personally, if I owned a service business I would not refuse service to a gay person, the current example being not baking a cake for a gay wedding. But I would support the right of people of other beliefs to do so, although I may then decide not to patronize that bakery myself. It's not the Government's business.