Tom Burlington, who's white, ultimately got axed from WTXF in 2007 after using a certain racially-offensive term in a question during a newscast-planning meeting regarding the NAACP's planned "funeral" the following month in Detroit for said word... he insisted he only used it in the context of a journalistic discussion, and meant no malice.
Paraphrasing Fox's attorney: "This is not acceptable under any circumstances"... Burlington's attorney: "The local papers used the word uncensored"... Burlington on the stand: "(When my kids see this on the net,) they'll believe I'm a racist..." Philly.com <http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Ex-Fox29_anchor_My_daughters_will_think_Im_a_racist.html> (link) B -- -- 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/d/optout.
