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Topic	Veteran Bay Area news anchor SUSPENDED after dispute over Gabby Petito coverage
brestugo 09/26/21 12:37:01 PM #1:	https://news.yahoo.com/news-anchor-suspended-dispute-gabby-142919089.html A San Francisco news anchor has been taken off the air in a dispute over Gabby Petito coverage, reports say. Frank Somerville, the anchor for Fox Bay Area news affiliate KTVU, was "suspended indefinitely" after he suggested that a segment on Petito should include a tagline acknowledging the "extraordinary" amount of media coverage her case had received, according to Mercury News. *Sources told the outlet that Somerville wanted to note the disparities in media attention* towards cases of missing white women compared with indigenous women and women of color. Somerville, who has an adopted Black daughter, reportedly pushed back against management after he was told his suggestion was "inappropriate." --- Voted NO and left the second question blank. <cite>brestugo posted [p:958431213] in Veteran Ba... [t:79680549]...</cite> <quote>https://news.yahoo.com/news-anchor-suspended-dispute-gabby-142919089.html A San Francisco news anchor has been taken off the air in a dispute over Gabby Petito coverage, reports say. Frank Somerville, the anchor for Fox Bay Area news affiliate KTVU, was "suspended indefinitely" after he suggested that a segment on Petito should include a tagline acknowledging the "extraordinary" amount of media coverage her case had received, according to Mercury News. Sources told the outlet that Somerville wanted to note the disparities in media attention towards cases of missing white women compared with indigenous women and women of color. Somerville, who has an adopted Black daughter, reportedly pushed back against management after he was told his suggestion was "inappropriate." --- Voted NO and left the second question blank.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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