Cleveland Station Apologizes for Headline

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Gray’s WOIO in Cleveland was doing their best to get the toothpaste back in the tube.

WOIO Reporter Jorge Ramos Pantoja did a story on a Cleveland Police Officer that is battling cancer.

The story was done very well and it showed compassion for Officer David Muniz.

But, viewers were outraged at the headline that was used on the story and they lashed out at the station and the Reporter.

People were demanding that the station fire the Reporter.

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But the insensitive headline was not the doing of Pantoja . The guy is battling cancer and the “digital person” posts a headline about an incident the officer was involved in years ago.

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Can you imagine that if they posted a story about you and dredged up some mistake from your past?

Sources tell FTVLive that it was a very green digital editor that wrote the headline.

After hateful messages to the Reporter and a number of posts on social media, WOIO issued this comment on social media:

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Some viewers were not buying the apology:

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Pantoja took the blowback for some green hire’s stupid headline.

Word is that Pantoja is not happy and this apology might be too little too late.

Stay tuned…