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A couple of days ago, FTVLive told you that WTTW (Chicago) News Director Hugo Balta was placed on administrative leave after some questionable social media posts.

The suspension has now become a firing.

“I am writing to let you know that Hugo Balta is no longer with the organization,” Sandra Cordova Micek, president and CEO of Window to the World Communications, told employees in an internal email obtained by Robert Feder, who originally broke the story.

In addition to questioning the propriety of Instagram videos showing Balta doing bare-chested push-ups and another of him dancing in his boxers, sources said, staffers came forward to complain about Balta’s tweets and Facebook posts that expressed political views and support for liberal candidates and causes.

Those posts have now been deleted.

Balta’s biased posts were brought to the attention of upper management by Anchors at the station.

FTVLive has posted time and time again that as a Journalist, you do not post your political opinions on social media.

In this case, it cost the News Director his job.