She's on her way to KING in August, but Patreons on ftvlive.com show several colleagues complaining about bullying tactcs and not wanting to work with her. It may explain why she moved from station to station in Seattle back in the day and wound up in a podunk market for years. Here's the post, you be the judge: FTVLive has heard from a number of staffers who described Lewis as a straight up "Bully." Now, normally, when someone reaches out to FTVLive and describes a co-worker is "mean" or a "bully", we don't pay it much attention. Not everyone likes each other and in a business full of big egos, there will be friction. But, the word "bully" kept popping up, when talking to people inside the WYFF newsroom. One insider shared a story in which WYFF Anchor Destiny Chance was to read a story while standing in front of the chroma key. One WYFF staffer described it this way, "Destiny had a shot at the chroma key after weather. The pr...
Good crews, except KING 5. They won't drop the race flag.
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DeleteDEI is not dead, and the Seattle TV stations are a good illustration of that. There are plenty of white people, of course. But there are also a respectable number of people of color, which is great.
ReplyDeleteKOMO and Fox 13 seem to be the least diverse. This isn't intended to be a negative, but more of an observation. Both stations have diverse presenters and reporters, but perhaps not quite as many as one might expect in a market as diverse as Seattle.
KIRO actually struck me as being the most diverse, which is interesting as KING has long been the leader in this department. KING is certainly diverse. No doubt about it. But KING's current talent roster is fairly white. KIRO packs an admirable amount of diversity into their small team, with their new traffic anchor being the latest diverse addition.
I was really looking at the dearth of one particular ethnicity.
DeleteThere does seem to be a lack of Black people compared to the region's demographics.
DeleteAsians are well represented across the board, and Fox 13 has several Hispanics/Latinos.
Interesting to note that none of these stations has ever hired someone who was born in the European continent on the air or behind the scenes. After all, they could speak two or three other languages on a conversant level and they could bring a little international flavor to their newsrooms when it comes to foreign news from abroad and the impacts for that ethic community here.
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