SF Bay area anchor suspended for saying too much media attention on Gabby Petito

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Kevin M.

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Sep 25, 2021, 11:49:00 PM9/25/21

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Essentially the anchor feels the coverage surrounding the white woman’s murder is disproportionate to murders/disappearances of women of color. And he’s not wrong.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/24/ktvu-again-removes-frank-somerville-from-the-air

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/frank-somerville-ktvu-suspended-petito

Kevin M. (RPCV)

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Sep 26, 2021, 1:00:04 AM9/26/21

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He was not suspended for saying the media disproportionately cover missing or murdered white women and girls (which in many places is a truism), but for arguing with his bosses that he should say it at the end of a story on the latest murdered white woman. As you say he is not wrong, but he does have a recent history of being a bit unstable, and as of now it is not known what he said or how he said it in his conversations with his bosses.

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