She sounds stupid, unprofessional, and short-sighted. None of these things are good qualities in a journalist so I have a hard time seeing why she deserves to keep her job.
I should have taken item 10 more seriously. I thought she was stealth bragging/trying to be funny. Real Life: it seems unlikely that shes ever investigated any story so complicated that looking through someones mail would be helpful.
Our local tv station has a so called investigative reporter. Mostly it’s consumer affairs. A roofing contractor that took the deposit and never did the work. A bad car sold at a used car lot. The “reporting” mostly requires a stand up camera shot in front of the business. “This person has refused our interview requests. He ripped off this person… blah blah.” Sometimes the person even gets their money back. Crooks and shady servicemen hate cameras. 
I hope this reporter wasn’t serious about looking through other people’s mail. As others said, that’s a felony.
Wow, what a dunce she is.
She certainly has the freedom to express her opinions. And the station has the freedom to fire her.
Why? Someone who’s rambling isn’t going to get their whole statement broadcast.
We know that a lot of any given TV interview gets edited, especially for time constraints. A reporter can interview a local city administrator for 20 minutes on a given story (let’s say budget cuts, and how they are affecting the local zoo), but edit the video/audio down to a twenty second sound bite for the nightly news broadcast.
However, the reporter doesn’t want to alienate & lose their journalistic source of info into city hall, so the reporter is not going to tell that administrator to zip it.
So what difference does it make if she records something uninteresting or not?
Here’s a follow up article. The Blaze’s reporter posted a link on twitter.
MLees: I agree. Cutting off an interview is just rude. It’s better to just let the camera roll and edit later. Which was exactly the point of item 9. The tv reporter was being snarky in her blog.
Agreed. She was looking for a reaction, but she didn’t get the reaction she was looking for, and now she’s upset. Lesson learned: shut the fuck up.
If your son is your first priority you take your stupid blog down when asked.
I’m fairly sure I could publish some “confessions” about my job that would probably get me fired. I think almost everyone could. Most of us aren’t clueless enough to do it.
It seems people are confusing the reporter’s snark and attitude (abundant here at The Dope) with a serious post.
It’s a good thing we use pseudonyms here. Really, the tv reporter should have blogged anonymously too. It would have been the smart choice.
I don’t disagree with her being fired at all.
How many people are lined up in the wings wanting her job? When you are easily replaceable you should work to make sure you stay beyond reproach in the eyes of your employers.
She hates old people? Who makes up a hefty portion of the audience for TV news?
Several other posters have already pointed out that stealing mail is a crime. Admitting to it online is misguided at best. Putting it back doesn’t make it okay, and the station can’t just let it go
I followed a twitter link to an interview in which she said this:
“They handed me a copy of the blog post. The very first thing out of my mouth was, ‘This is my personal blog — this is my personal space,” she said.
She’s a nitwit. They didn’t dig though her trash or steal it from her mail, which she shouldn’t object to. The INTERNET is not your personal space. Her blog and photos on it clearly identify her as a WAAY reporter.
If I blogged about my job, I would be fired in no time. And probably arrested due to the nature of my work.
It’s not a terrible faux pas. And as a viewer it wouldn’t bother me, but I was just imagining that possible interviewees might be bothered. For one thing, people are often excited about being on the news. I’ve known people who have been on the local news for various things, and they’ll always be proud and tell friends and family to turn on channel whatever and watch the news at 6. It would be kinda embarrassing to tell people you’ll be on the news, and it turns out that you were cut. I understand that things are edited for time, and even if your interview was interesting and provided valuable information, that you still might not be in the broadcast. But if the reporter knows immediately that you’re not going to be on air, it seems more polite to me to just say up front “thank you for your time, but I don’t think this is quite what I need for the show.”
It seems patronizing to me, but it’s not the worst offense. I don’t know, maybe most reporters do the same thing, they just haven’t admitted it publicly in a blog.
It’s admitting to a federal felony (stealing mail) that did it for me.
These are the items that make her appear vapid or unprofessional.
I’m not in the industry, but I assume that as a reporter, you are expected to appear as someone who is professional, respected and trustworthy (at least until your ratings are high enough that no one cares). “You” are essentially the product. When you post things that make you appear like you don’t take your work seriously, it also might effect how your audience perceives you. Because of that, media people get a lot less leeway than, say, an accountant or computer programmer when it comes to posting on social media.
The First Amendment ensures freedom of speech from government control. It does not ensure freedom of consequences over what you say.
ISTM that other people’s mail is much more their personal space than someone’s blog. But she brags (more or less) about invading one while complaining about invasions of the other.
“The rules apply to everybody else”, as usual.
Regards,
Shodan
More tidbits coming to the surface. Gawkercom, so take it for what it’s worth.
As a member of a new organization, you really have to not BE the news.
Kind of a clueless tard, but quite attractive. She’ll do just fine in life.
I see your point(s).
I wish I could figure out how to get the name of the TV station ( WAAY ) into some witty comment about her…
It stands for WAAY embarrassed.