The situation that is occurring right now for ESPN reporter Britt McHenry is that she has been suspended for one week. She was at a towing company in Virginia and insulted the establishment and the employee there calling it a scumbag place and insinuating that she was better than them because she has a degree in journalism. She also made fun of the employees appearance commenting about missing teeth and the employee’s weight. Britt has only been working at ESPN for one year and will be able to return to her job in one week. She apologized about her crude statements via twitter. Many other people would constantly call her out and asked for her to be fired from her position.
I chose to do this article because I wanted to speak my mind about professionalism in popular culture and media. Right now there are a lot of people who are plain unprofessional on air or in public in all facets of the media and this incident provides an example of it. She knew she was on camera at a certain point but still continued to berate and attack the employee. When you are one of the faces of a multi-million dollar corporation that type of behavior cannot stand and should not be allowed in any professional environment. I see news anchors and other members of the media berate and attack the people they are reporting on. I feel like that shouldn't happen the news is there to provide a clear succinct view of what is happening in the world. I feel like the news is being mired by all these petty fights due to differing political values and I feel like there should be a more harsh punishment if something like this were to happen again.
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