Cleveland Station Losing Battle to Keep "Jigaboo" Video off the Internet
/
When WJW Anchor Kristi Capel, taking about Lady Gaga's Oscar performance said, ""It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music that she (makes), whatever you want to call it"..... the station has done all they can to get the video racially offensive comments scrubbed from the Internet.
But, it clearly falls within the fair use guidelines and as a media company, WJW should know that. Instead of dealing with an Anchor that is making offensive comments, the station is trying to stop the reporting on Capel's racists remarks.
Do they not see the irony here?
Capel claims she did not know the meaning of the word or if was even a word at all. So why would the Anchor use it?
She hasn't answered that question.
WJW News director Andy Fishman says, "Kristy apologized on the air shortly after making the remark. She did not know what the word meant but that is no excuse for using it." Fishman added, "We have spoken with her and are confident nothing like this will happen again."
Here is the video, until WJW has it pulled down....again.
