Anchor Fires Back at Post

WCMH ran a story that included a graphic with a typo in it:

A viewer posted a screenshot and wrote this:

WCMH Anchor Colleen Marshall clapped back at the viewer and her post:

I’m sorry, but Colleen Marshall and WCMH are in the public eye and this viewer’s post was very much fair game.

When you are a media company you are held to a higher standard than a manager at McDonald’s or a shelf stocker at Target.

In our opinion, Marshall’s reply seemed petty and unfair. She also was publicly shamming a viewer for publicly shaming her station. In other words, she did what she was calling out the viewer for doing.

I make typos many times on FTVLive (although I have been better this year as I am trying to proofread more before posting) and I get called out on social media or in emails all the time.

I hate making mistakes and I can give you a number of excuses as to why it happens? But, I also get that people call me out and it is completely fair.

FTVLive is in the public eye and is read by hundreds of thousands of people each day. I screw up and a lot of people see it. They call me out and that is OK.

I’m trying to do better, while still doing all the work.

I would have expected a well known and liked Anchor like Colleen Marshall to stay on the high road, but instead, she veered left, shamed a viewer and what did it really prove?

You’re a public figure, viewers hold you to a higher standard and you should accept that, act like a professional and not resort to some 3rd grade logic of shaming a viewer.

It was not her finest moment.

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