KTBS-TV Meteorologist Rhonda Lee Fired For Responding To Racist Viewer Comment On Facebook

KTBS-TV Meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by the Shreveport, La, ABC affiliate for violating a social media policy that she says was never communicated to her. Last month, Ms. Lee responded, on Facebook, to a viewer who observed that the children who won an annual toy giveaway “lets say, are people of color,” and accused the station of “racism.”

Lee’s response, she says, cost her her job, despite the fact that the policy she was told she violated was “not written down,” and was supposedly communicated at a newsroom meeting that she did not attend.