{"id":693,"date":"2007-05-22T17:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T22:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/05\/22\/wtmj-backpedals-on-the-jessica-mcbride-issue\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:21:54","slug":"wtmj-backpedals-on-the-jessica-mcbride-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wtmj-backpedals-on-the-jessica-mcbride-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"WTMJ backpedals on the Jessica McBride issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>620 WTMJ is now claiming that Jessica McBride was <strong>not<\/strong> fired because of <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerblogger.com\/?p=5319\">the Eugene Kane piece<\/a> or her &#8220;ideology&#8221;.  They say they just &#8220;moved up&#8221; a decision they made a few weeks ago because of the controversy.  This excuse is being sent to (apparently) anyone who emails John Schweitzer, station manager.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, but that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=607755\">not what Schweitzer said a few days ago<\/a>. He said it was &#8220;in the works,&#8221; but not that the decision had been made. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General manager Jon Schweitzer said Friday that the move had been in the works, but was sped up by McBride&#8217;s attempted comedy bit that featured a reference to a 4-year-old girl killed earlier this week in a drive-by shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like WTMJ is trying to cover its butt, but doing a poor job of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/belling.com\/main.html\">Mark Belling<\/a> has revealed that the decision by WTMJ was probably also influenced by recent focus groups that suggested some less conservative material should be put on the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>620 WTMJ is now claiming that Jessica McBride was not fired because of the Eugene Kane piece or her &#8220;ideology&#8221;. They say they just &#8220;moved up&#8221; a decision they made a few weeks ago because of the controversy. This excuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}