How Can an Anchor Be Allowed to Tweet This? (Patreon)

Look, I know when it comes to Journalism that Tegna is not exactly the gold standard. 

But, shouldn't they have some guidelines when it comes to social media posts. 

In what has become the Tegna way, WKYC (Cleveland) decided to hire a comic to anchor one of their newscasts. 

Why you make a mockery out of Journalism by hiring comics is a question that only Tegna can answer. It's like a local hospital saying they are going to try something new and hire a comedian instead of a surgeon. 

How confident would you feel as they roll you into the operating room? 

Anyway, so WKYC hires local comic Mike Polk to play the role of a Journalist on TV. 

This is one of Polk's recent tweets:

As a comic, this tweet is totally fine. But, as a Journalist, this is so far out of bounds it's not even funny. 

How would WKYC feel if their Anchor Russ Mitchell posted a tweet like this? 

Or are the rules different for the comics than they are for the REAL news people? 

Look at Tegna's station in DC, WUSA. They have a comedian named Reese Waters that "Anchors" the station's morning newscast. 

As FTVLive has told you, Waters constantly shows up to anchor the news in a T-Shirt.

As we FIRST told you, WUSA has hired longtime DC Anchor Tony Perkins to anchor alongside Waters and Annie Yu for a November book sweeps stunt. 

How would WUSA management feel if Yu and Perkins showed up to do the news in T-shirts and jeans? 

Again, the rules must be different when you are just pretending to be a Journalist?

Last week, WUSA held a promo shoot with Perkins and the rest of the crew. Waters showed up to the shoot with a T-shirt on. 

Compare the picture above with the one below. 

Notice how the station had to do a little photoshop on the finished product to get the words off his T-shirt and make him look at least a little bit more professional. 

Tegna is not only hiring comics over real journalists, but they also let them act under different rules. 

There are so many real journalists that are unemployed looking for work and yet Tegna is hiring these clowns. 

Sad....