You may not believe this, but there was a time that if you worked in TV news, reporting the news was your job and only your job.

You would never even think of pitching products on the side or taking off your news hat and putting on your sales hat.

But, the times have change and it seems that many news people have no problem becoming pitch people.

Let’s look at WJCL (Savannah, Georgia) Anchor Riley Miller’s IG and see that using her code, you can get 30% off this swimsuit, that appears to have 305 less material than other swimsuits:

I know that Journalists pimping products is now a thing, but I still believe that when you start shilling on the side, you are hurting your cred as a Journalist.