May be an over reaction but it is still someone's company and risk. I don't think the decision is wrong whatever the choice of the person with the risk. Keep or fire, I, nor anyone that is not involved will have all the facts. The company has all the risk and therefore needs to make the decision that they feel in in the best interest of the company. Nothing more, nothing less. My opinion, of course.

The station certainly has the right to fire her but it seems like a terrible decision to me. We have to have a discussion about what is going on in some of our poorer neighborhoods and actions like this make that impossible.

That this would get someone fired is nothing less than stunning. The country has gone insane. It is now a crime to speak the truth in any form.

One of my patients told me the whole thing is a "hoot". I thought that was great

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.

My concern is that the stations reaction will serve to silence honest discussions about the problems facing our local neighborhoods. I think the station is within their rights but at what cost?

Thanks, Rich, I don't see anything here to get fired over...it was responsibly truthful and ends on an incredibly positive note....it brought tears to my eyes because the message is true and objective.

If I were her boss, I would of nominated this piece for some award.

Other than in a contract situation, why would the employer, employee relationship be any different than a relationship of friends. Would a friend be obligated to stay friends with someone at all costs? Once someone entered another's house as a friend, could they never be asked to leave? Just questions. :)

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 think an employer has the right to fire anyone that does not represent his company the way he sees fit. Having said that; it should be on a rational basis and not at the waving finger of any group, especially over sensitive numskulls.
I personally would weigh the content in context and the degree of potential physical harm inferred by the comment.

Does anyone have a link we can view the commentary on this particular case?

He is a master showman and is playing off of it. This is a strange primary. We could actually see people other than anyone currently running get the Republican and Democratic nomination.

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 feel great anger and disgust at the insanities being caused by caving to political correctness. I am not a Trump supporter, but this is the anger that is driving his success.

Forcing the employer to keep an employee they don't want is not doing anyone a favor. I suspect in less than a year she will be doing something else and be happier then if she were working with someone who didn't really want her.

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.

The employer- employee relationship is one entered into by both using their free will.either has the right to sever that agreement. The government has no right to have any say.
A year ago I forced a long term employee because I just got sick and tired of her attitude.

yep

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.

yes. the employer has the card. done deal.