{"id":14523,"date":"2023-07-04T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T21:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=14523"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:43:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T21:43:25","slug":"michigan-tv-station-director-staffers-fired-after-asking-for-balance-in-coverage-of-pride-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=14523","title":{"rendered":"Michigan TV Station Director, Staffers Fired After Asking for \u201cBalance\u201d in Coverage of Pride Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPride Month\u201d is over and a day to be proud of, the Fourth of July, is upon us!\u00a0 But a news director, his assistant and two staffers from WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan will spend the holiday trying to figure out where to work next.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, some were fired over distributing a memo sent out asking for coverage of pride parades to be covered \u201cbalanced\u201d and to show \u201cboth sides.\u201d\u00a0 The others were fired for leaking the memo.\u00a0 The assistant director that was fired, Amy Fox, was \u201cordered\u201d to write the memo by the new director, Stanton Tang, who was also terminated.<\/p>\n<p>From the memo cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/thedesk.net\/2023\/06\/amy-fox-wood-tv-lgbt-memo-conservative-viewers\/\">TheDesk.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that West Michigan is a Conservative area in many ways.\u00a0 We need to recognize that some stories related to LGBTQ issues are going to be controversial and polarizing in our community. While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions, and they are our viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While you personally may not agree with a certain position, people are entitled to their opinions, and they are our viewers.\u00a0 We should not cover every Pride event that we learn about. We need to do some work to discern the newsworthy-ness of the event.\u00a0 If we are covering Pride events, we need to consider how to make the story <strong>balanced<\/strong> and get <strong>both sides<\/strong> of the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, balanced news reporting with both sides of a story is frowned upon when it comes to \u201cpride.\u201d\u00a0 The other staffers at WOOD-TV were so triggered, they actually staged a \u201cwalk-out protest\u201d, according to employees.\u00a0 The pushback from the station is rooted in reporting the news in an \u201cexpansive and inclusive fashion.\u201d\u00a0 But what it really sounds like is \u2018promote pride in a positive light no matter what the real story on the ground may be.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amy Fox is the director that was fired over a memo she was ordered to write<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WOOD-TV is owned by Nexstar Media Group, the largest owner of local television broadcast stations in the country.\u00a0 Nexstar claims on their website to \u201cfoster a culture of diversity and inclusion\u2026so no one feels discriminated against.\u201d\u00a0 While TheDesk claims this is a \u201crare instance of a news executive encouraging reporters to sideline stories based on the political affiliations of its viewers,\u201d one could argue it is simply promoting a \u201cfair and balanced\u201d story.\u00a0 The memo encouraged reporters to refrain from covering every pride event, and rather just focus on the ones that were actually newsworthy.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2023\/07\/michigan-tv-station-director-staffers-fired-after-asking\/\">Michigan TV Station Director, Staffers Fired After Asking for \u201cBalance\u201d in Coverage of Pride Celebrations<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPride Month\u201d is over and a day to be proud of, the Fourth of July, is upon us!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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