{"id":32700,"date":"2018-10-08T20:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32700"},"modified":"2018-10-08T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T20:41:37","slug":"reporter-fired-for-wearing-maga-hat-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32700","title":{"rendered":"Reporter fired for wearing MAGA hat? Duh!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/601000201_750x422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32701\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/601000201_750x422-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/601000201_750x422-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/601000201_750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the name of MAGA-mania was this guy thinking?<\/p>\n<p>A reporter for a Minnesota TV station was fired this past Thursday because he wore a Make America Great Again gimme cap \u2026 while covering a Donald J. Trump political rally in Rochester, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, this guy violated what usually is considered a cardinal rule of journalism. You do not reveal your political bias while you are on the job reporting on political events.<\/p>\n<p>KTTC-TV in Austin, Minn., has a policy that prohibits such blatant bias on the job. So, when James Brunner, a multimedia journalist for the station, showed up at a Trump rally wearing the MAGA hat, it went viral on Twitter. It got back to his bosses at KTTC. They fired him.<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow, man!<\/p>\n<p>I have long had my own political bias. Never did I display it while reporting on or commenting on the news of the day at any of the newspapers where I worked. Not in Oregon or in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even plaster bumper stickers on my cars, which I also always assumed were against the rules. Interestingly, I did see some political bumper stickers on vehicles driven by non-newsroom employees at the Amarillo Globe-News, my last duty station before I retired; I always thought even advertising sales reps shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to display their bias on the job.<\/p>\n<p>This fellow, Brunner, has learned a tough &#8212; but totally necessary &#8212; lesson about the fine line journalists must walk when they are on the job, reporting on politics and policy.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the name of MAGA-mania was this guy thinking? A reporter for a Minnesota TV station was fired this past Thursday because he wore a Make America Great Again gimme cap \u2026 while covering a Donald J. Trump political rally in Rochester, Minn. 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