Anchor Doxes Viewer

Jonathan McCall

A viewer sent along a nasty email to Nexstar’s KRON in San Francisco, talking about a few of the station’s employees.

The viewer emailed the station to voice their opinion about some station employees. While the viewer certainly crossed the line in his email, he did not name anyone by name. He showed that he was an idiot and a racist.

Sadly, emails such as these are more common than most people outside of TV news think.

KRON Anchor Jonathan McCall decided to make the email to the station public, which one might argue is exactly what the sender would have wanted.

McCall posted the email and added this:

While I applaud McCall for sticking up for his coworkers, I’m not sure making the viewer’s email public was the best idea. You are taking an email that was sent to a few and placing it before a much wider audience. It can cause more embarrassment for the people that were discussed in the email, and it gives the racist emailer a bigger platform.

While you could argue that McCall including the viewer's email address might have not been a good idea, this clearly was not in our minds.

McCall doxed the emailer, showing his address on his social media.

Is that really something a station wants its Anchors doing?

I think McCall has crossed the line in posting this guy’s address. Is McCall asking people that follow him to go knock on this guy’s door, or worse?

Look, the emailer is a racist punk, no question about that. But, when the Anchor at the station stoops to the same level as the emailer is that the optics you want?

What if one of McCall’s followers heads over to this guy’s house and takes matters into his own hands.

Does that make the Anchorman an accessory to what happened?

I get that McCall was pissed at seeing his coworkers attacked, but as a Journalist, you must have a thicker skin and you must take a much higher road.

Just saying….