July 20, 2004

Cincinnati news story follow-up

The Raegan Butler story from earlier today now has another chapter added to it.

As I mentioned in the original piece, the actual "mark-leaving" piece that went out was yanked by the AP. But WLWT's President & General Manager, Richard Dyer, has provided an apology to viewers as well as to Ms. Butler.

On Monday, July 19, language was added to a news story on channelcincinnati.com that was offensive and hurtful toward one of our staff members and was an egregious violation of the standards of this news organization. As soon as the posting was discovered it was immediately removed from channelcincinnati.com and a company-wide effort was mounted to remove all references to the story from Web search engines.

This posting was the result of one individual's actions and that individual has been terminated.

We regret the trouble this has caused for the individual named and our entire staff and we apologize to viewers of channelcincinnati.com.

That's still gonna leave a mark.

Posted by mhking at July 20, 2004 09:25 PM
Comments

If I wasn't such a nice man, I'd be sending Ms. Butler plenty of emails starting with

"Dear Ho-Bag,"

But alas, I shan't...

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at July 20, 2004 09:28 PM

This posting was the result of one individual's actions and that individual has been terminated.

Wonder why they didn't name him. I would have, but I'm just a bitch that way.

Posted by: Deb at July 20, 2004 10:08 PM

Maybe they're afraid he'd get fan mail.

Posted by: McGehee at July 20, 2004 10:45 PM

If he were named, he could sue the company for violating privacy laws.

Posted by: DarkStar at July 22, 2004 06:16 AM

Nonsense. There is no right of privacy regarding the conduct of your job. No court in the world woudl ever uphold a lawsuit in a case like that. The company would be ruled to be completely justified in releasing the name of the perpetrator.

Posted by: GMAFB at July 29, 2004 04:25 AM