Michigan TV Station Director, Staffers Fired After Asking for “Balance” in Coverage of Pride Celebrations
“Pride Month” is over and a day to be proud of, the Fourth of July, is upon us! But a news director, his assistant and two staffers from WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan will spend the holiday trying to figure out where to work next.
Over the weekend, some were fired over distributing a memo sent out asking for coverage of pride parades to be covered “balanced” and to show “both sides.” The others were fired for leaking the memo. The assistant director that was fired, Amy Fox, was “ordered” to write the memo by the new director, Stanton Tang, who was also terminated.
From the memo cited by TheDesk.net:
“We know that West Michigan is a Conservative area in many ways.
