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What Will Happen If Wendy Bell's Case Goes To Trial?
What Will Happen If Wendy Bell's Case Goes To Trial?
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Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Former WTAE-TV news anchor Wendy Bell has filed a federal lawsuit claiming her March 30 firing was racial discrimination. Bell was fired for comments she made on WTAE's Facebook page that station officials said were "inconsistent with the company's ethics and journalistic standards." Two weeks after the March 9th mass shooting in Wilkinsburg that killed six people, Bell wrote "you needn't be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago...they are young black men, likely in their teens or early 20s." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman weighs in on this latest development .
Released:
Jun 22, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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