Last week, FTVLive told you that Tegna’s KHOU (Houston) posted a comment in which they referred to women as “Hoes.”

KHOU posted to Facebook as to how it was “Nation Men Make Dinner Day” and after posting the story to social media, a person commented with this and then check out the reply from KHOU:

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When we posted the story, FTVLive asked if KHOU management was ok with a staffer making a post that demeans women?

Sources now tell FTVLive that the reply to the post came from a manager at the station and not some rogue newbie digital content producer.

Insiders tell FTVLive that the manager was not disciplined, but after reading the FTVLive story, KHOU GM Robert Springer sent a memo to the staff saying in part:

“Yesterday, one of our colleagues responded to a comment on Facebook repeating a disrespectful and unacceptable tern for a women.

We have removed the comment and apologized in the thread for the lack of judgment and insensitivity.

KHOU is in the journalism business - the pursuit of truth.

There is absolutely no room or any acceptable circumstance for the use of any language or terminology that is designed belittle or minimize another human being.”

While we agree with what Springer said, we have to wonder how the post from a manager got on Facebook in the first place and why it took a story on FTVLive to get the post taken down?

Also, no one from KHOU management reached out to FTVLive to thank us for pointing this out. But a number of KHOU employees did.

I guess it’s management’s job to watch the employees and FTVLive’s job to watch the managers.