After Disastrous First Night on Air, Fired Anchor Tweets About Job Hunting
Okay, so you’ve probably heard about North Dakota-based anchor A.J. Clemente who dropped the F-bomb on his first day on the job.
As per his Twitter feed, he blurted out profanities while trying to figure out how to pronounce the London marathon winner’s name.
Although he didn’t realize his microphone was live, the news director apologized to viewers and stated, “I want to apologize for an incident that occurred prior to our early newscast this evening, when one of our employees used profanity on the air.”
Clemente was suspended at first and then he was let go.
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