Fox talks right but acts PC. Fires news reader. They can say it; you can't. He sues Murdoch, Ailes and Company.
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Political Correctness at Fox Goes On Trial
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This guy lost at trial. He also lost his job and probably his career.
Meanwhile, yesterday Obama used the same word to make a point in a speech and nobody seems to mind. Double standards abound in PC Land.
Meanwhile, yesterday Obama used the same word to make a point in a speech and nobody seems to mind. Double standards abound in PC Land.
From the NewPittsburghCourierOnline.com:
The all-White jury, after about three hours of deliberations, found that race was neither the determining factor nor a motivating factor in his dismissal.
Fox lawyers had argued that Burlington continued “not to get it,” repeating the word in apologies to offended Black colleagues and in other follow-up conversations that ensued that week.
“Nobody wanted to fire this man,” lawyer Jerome Hoffman argued to the jury Monday. “They had a serious problem with an employee who didn’t get it, who wanted to press his point.”
The all-White jury, after about three hours of deliberations, found that race was neither the determining factor nor a motivating factor in his dismissal.
Fox lawyers had argued that Burlington continued “not to get it,” repeating the word in apologies to offended Black colleagues and in other follow-up conversations that ensued that week.
“Nobody wanted to fire this man,” lawyer Jerome Hoffman argued to the jury Monday. “They had a serious problem with an employee who didn’t get it, who wanted to press his point.”
The case was in Philadelphia, not Pittsburgh.
And the "New Pittsburgh Courier" is a Black weekly newspaper, owned by a chain of Black weeklies based in Detroit. Interesting choice of media, especially since a Google News search on this story puts this story way down the list.
Oh, no. Race was not a factor. And since jury deliberations are private, how does this Pittsburgh paper know what this bunch of people too stupid to get out of jury duty thought?
And the "New Pittsburgh Courier" is a Black weekly newspaper, owned by a chain of Black weeklies based in Detroit. Interesting choice of media, especially since a Google News search on this story puts this story way down the list.
Oh, no. Race was not a factor. And since jury deliberations are private, how does this Pittsburgh paper know what this bunch of people too stupid to get out of jury duty thought?
Maybe for you, but my Google search (keyword: Tom Burlington lawsuit) put it #2, right after Philly.com. To be honest, I had no idea who owned it when I posted the quote. Just thought it presented a contrasting opinion.
Are you disputing the reporting because of the source, or because you disagree with the viewpoint?
FOX29 is actually a FOX O&O.
www.myfoxphilly.com
www.myfoxphilly.com
Historically, the Black media (like many other ethnic and group-identified media, and like Fox News) present themselves as advocates and proponents for the groups they target and claim to represent. They do not follow the rules of journalism preached (if not always practiced) by the MSM.
If not for the racial angle, this is a story that would have no interest in Pittsburgh. There's is absolutely no local angle or local tie-in. Except for activist blogs and Black publications, this story appears not to have been picked up at all by mainstream media outside Philly.
Yes, WTXF is owned by Fox - News Corp, and the stations' group, like Fox News, reports to Roger Ailes, who once worked for KYW-TV and served as executive producer of The Mike Douglas Show there. WTXF's former general manager now is manager of WXPN, a public radio AAA station, and a member of the NPR board (now seeking reelection).
I don't see much difference between the reporting in what I posted and the story in Philly.com. They both report the finding of the jury. That information didn't come from inside the jury room, but rather stated by the judge in the open courtroom. Maybe you can point out where they've diverged from the so-called "rules of journalism."
Yes, that's our goal. And if we as a nation and an economy are going survive and thrive in the coming decades, we only slow things down much like the barnacles on a ship's hull if we try to keep the "race hustling" concept alive. So at the "organized society" level, we talk and act out the "one culture" goal.
But I take it maybe you don't live in and maybe don't spend a lot of time in "the old Deep South". I go to bed every night repeating your words to myself: "We are one people, we are one culture." By Noon the next day, but sometimes not until the 6 P.M. news on TV, I find myself muttering: "Oh crap! Not again! Race hustling still lives!"
Maybe tomorrow... or sometime next week... will be better.
Well, actually it is better. I left the South 54 years ago when one of my supervisors informed me that when reading the news, I MUST refer to the President of the state NAACP as "Daisy Bates"... and never, never ever as "Mrs. L. C. Bates". Since returning I have yet to have someone get in my face for giving a Black woman the dignity of calling her "Mrs." The forms and formats of "race hustling" are much more sophisticated these days.
My bad for thinking that Fox affiliates were, but then again they aren't Warren Buffett who just buys it all. Even so, the guy was fired, as he should have been, and as any race hustlers should be.
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