That is a Conflict of Interest! (Patreon)

Lately, FTVLive has been posting a number of positive stories about Gray Television. The way the company has handled the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter story should be commended. 

But, we must call out Gray and their station WTVM (Columbus, Ga) for a glaring conflict of interest on a story that the station covered. 

While doing election coverage this week,  WTVM Reporter Brennan Reh was assigned to interview Senate Candidate Teresa Tomlinson during the coverage (picture above). 

Here is the problem, Reh once worked as the Public Information Officer for then Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson. In other words, the station had the Reporter interview her old boss.

Sources tell FTVLive that WTVM had 4 Reporters live during their coverage, so clearly there were other Reporters that could have been assigned to Tomlinson's campaign.  

This was a conflict of interest that never needed to happen and it hurts the credibility of the station in many ways. 

In a time when the press is under fire on so many fronts, TV news has to do better and in this case, they clearly did not. 

Here is Brennan Reh's station bio, which clearly shows that she worked for the candidate she was assigned to cover.