Nexstar Calls Former Anchor a Liar
FTVLive told you that former WHTM (Harrisburg) Anchor Flora Posteraro had filed sex discrimination and retaliation complaints against the Nexstar station.
Now, Nexstar is firing back and they are calling Posteraro a liar.
The company issued a strongly worded statement denying Posteraro’s allegations about station manager Robert Bee and dubbing her claims of having been fired in retaliation “preposterous” and “patently false.”
“To be perfectly clear, there have been no complaints made or filed regarding sexual harassment or sexual misconduct against anyone at WHTM during Nexstar’s ownership of the station,” Nexstar senior vice president and regional manager Theresa Underwood said in the statement. Underwood confirmed that the company received an anonymous complaint from abc27 employees in August 2017, alleging gender discrimination. But after conducting an investigation, Underwood said, the evidence gathered by the company didn’t back up the employees’ claims.
“It is troubling that Ms. Posteraro has sought to attempt to align her complaint to the very serious issue of sexual harassment in the workplace through innuendo on social media and elsewhere,” she said.
While Nexstar is claiming that Posteraro is not being honest, a number of employees have confirmed her claims and are wondering why Nexstar is calling her out?
“They’re under the impression harassment is just grabbing and groping,” one employee told the Inquirer and Daily News. “We witnessed the behavior. It’s puzzling to us when we see these things saying it never happened, the allegations are false, the complaint was without merit, because we were present for all of that behavior we experienced.”