Slacker of the Day: KPPX-TV television employee
Posted Tue 27 Mar 2007 by Brad under Slacker of the Day
I saw a teaser about this story on the local Columbus news, but never got to hear the whole thing. Looks like somebody was a little bored or a little angry at their job and decided to insert some pornography into the nightly newscast. It doesn’t mention it here, but I believe it was during a broadcast with Tom Brokaw. The images were only shown on the Pheonix affiliate.
So who is the slacker here? I don’t know if the person who inserted the video is a slacker necessarily, so I guess the slacker is whoever allowed him the access and ability to edit the feed.
From CNEWS:
Station fires worker suspected of putting porn into news
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A Phoenix television station says it has fired an employee suspected of adding about 30 seconds of pornography into a broadcast of a news show.
The unnamed worker for ION Media Networks’ KPPX-TV “was immediately terminated and faces further legal action” after an investigation determined who was responsible for the March 12 incident, spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a statement.
Palm Beach, Fla.-based ION Media Networks, which offers family-friendly programs, called the incident “an intolerable act of human sabotage” and apologized to viewers.
Monreal said the images appeared only in the Phoenix market. The images prompted a flood of calls to local news media outlets and the cable television provider.
