“For 13 years Rebecca Aguilar has hit the streets as an aggressive, scoop-generating Fox4 reporter. Now she's unceremoniously out on the street, indefinitely suspended by her station. ... Aguilar's Oct. 15th piece on 70-year-old property defender James Walton, who had just purchased a new shotgun outside a sporting goods store, prompted a flurry of bloggers and blog readers to brand her as bigoted, anti-gun, an ambusher and a 'bitch' among kinder assessments.”
Ed Cognoski responds:I try not to watch Fox 4 or any other local newscast. They are all too sleazy for my tastes. Rebecca Aguilar revealing the text message from a rival station's news manager, "Good job", just confirms it. Maybe if she apologized, not just for her story on James Walton, but on behalf of all television news for a decade's worth of sleazy stories, I might be inclined to forgive her and start watching local news again.
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