{"id":183778,"date":"2012-11-25T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/25\/word-2\/"},"modified":"2012-11-25T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:48:00","slug":"word-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/25\/word-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LB6nWS1vpbQ\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Grace under pressure<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In protest of increasing management interference in the news (primarily of the right wing variety) two co-anchors on stations WVII and WFVX  in Bangor, Maine, <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/11\/20\/news\/bangor\/anchors-away-at-wvii-cindy-michaels-tony-consiglio-resign-on-air\/\">announced their resignations on the air<\/a>, and later cited excessive management interference in the news process:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Citing a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at their Bangor TV stations, news co-anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday\u2019s 6 p.m. newscast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Michaels and Consiglio, who have a combined 12\u00bd years\u2019 service at WVII (Channel 7) and sister station WFVX (Channel 22), shocked staff members and viewers with their joint resignations Tuesday evening.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI just wanted to know that I was doing the best job I could and was being honest and ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I wasn\u2019t able to do that,\u201d said Consiglio, a northeastern Connecticut native who broke in with WVII as a sports reporter in April 2006.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Not everyone was shocked by the on-air resignations.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNo, that was unfortunate, but not unexpected,\u201d said Mike Palmer, WVII\/WFVX vice president and general manager. \u201cWe\u2019ll hire experienced people to fill these positions sooner rather than later.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Neither reporter had told anyone of their decisions before Tuesday\u2019s newscast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe figured if we had tendered our resignations off the air, we would not have been allowed to say goodbye to the community on the air and that was really important for us to do that,\u201d said Michaels, the station\u2019s news director, who has spent six of her 15 years in Bangor\u2019s radio and TV market at WVII.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Both Michaels, 46, and Consiglio, 28, said frustration over the way they were allowed or told to do their jobs \u2014 something that has been steadily mounting for the last four years \u2014 became too much for them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, Mike Palmer, the aforementioned general manager, got some national ink in 2006, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/30\/business\/media\/30warming.html\">issued an edict forbidding any coverage of anthropogenic climate change<\/a> until, &#8220;Bar Harbor is underwater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they surprised management by quitting on the air is telling.&nbsp; They knew that the could not trust them. <\/p>\n<p>Big surprise that one of the stations is a Fox affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/11\/24\/1164474\/-Fox-Anchors-Quit-On-Air-due-to-political-interference-in-their-reporting\">A Siegel<\/a> at the big orange Borg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace under pressure In protest of increasing management interference in the news (primarily of the right wing variety) two co-anchors on stations WVII and WFVX in Bangor, Maine, announced their resignations on the air, and later cited excessive management interference in the news process: Citing a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,1169,1129,978,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-heroism","category-journalism","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}