Twitter Fight Leads to a Firing
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A talent at WSB Radio got into a Twitter fight with a talent on WSB-TV and now one of them is without a job.
AJC’s Rodney Ho writes that WSB Radio parted ways with conservative talk show host Monica Matthews
Over the weekend, someone commented to Matthews on Twitter criticizing anchors at CBS46 (WGCL) as “crap race baiting crap news.”
Matthews late Saturday night wrote: “Correct. Almost as bad as @JovitaMoore.”
Moore (pictured), the evening Anchor at WSB-TV, responded on Twitter Sunday: “Don’t dare try to slander me @monicaonairtalk as you still attempt, at your age, to build a career on race baiting. Just scrolled your tl trying to figure out who you are & every tweet refers to black people, black women, black kids. Girl please. Keep my name out your mouth.”
Matthews responded: “Hit a nerve I see. Your continual lack of professionalism on air is exactly why our city burns. Journalism is lost on as an angry woman, I’ll leave black out of it. Take a few notes from your colleague Lori. The air doesn’t need another bitter diva.@wsbtv do better.”.
She added: “And for the record, I’m not building a career, I’m living a purpose that involves calling down opinions birthed in bitterness & lies rather than journalistic integrity. We see you.”
In an interview, Matthews said she has nothing negative to say about her former radio employer but found Moore’s Twitter response “disappointing.”
“My husband [who died in 1999] was black,” she said. “My daughter is biracial. My boyfriend is black. Don’t paint me as something I’m not.”
The radio station posted this:
