Julie Tremmel (who made quite the internet buzz in a report last June on what to do in a bear attack) was fired from WJAR in Providence, RI after she did a handstand during some live shot tangentially related to "America's Got Talent". Everyone's lawyering up.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20140223/COLUMN01/302239939/-1/column(includes both the handstand and bear videos) As a Romenesko commenter wrote on Facebook, "If you send your reporter out to shill for your network's TV show, there really is no standard low enough to define a firing offense." -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
