Take this job and shove it: Fed-up Bangor TV anchors quit on air

[CG6468]

Take this job and shove it: Fed-up Bangor TV anchors quit on air

By Andrew Neff, BDN Staff

Posted Nov. 20, 2012, at 10:16 p.m.

Last modified Nov. 21, 2012, at 1:23 p.m.

Kevin Bennett | BDN

BANGOR, Maine — Citing a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at their Bangor TV stations, news co-anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday’s 6 p.m. newscast.
 
Michaels and Consiglio, who have a combined 12½ years’ service at WVII (Channel 7) and sister station WFVX (Channel 22), shocked staff members and viewers with their joint resignations Tuesday evening.
 
“I just wanted to know that I was doing the best job I could and was being honest and ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I wasn’t able to do that,” said Consiglio, a northeastern Connecticut native who broke in with WVII as a sports reporter in April 2006.
 
Not everyone was shocked by the on-air resignations.
 
“No, that was unfortunate, but not unexpected,” said Mike Palmer, WVII/WFVX vice president and general manager. “We’ll hire experienced people to fill these positions sooner rather than later.”
 
Neither reporter had told anyone of their decisions before Tuesday’s newscast.
 
“We figured if we had tendered our resignations off the air, we would not have been allowed to say goodbye to the community on the air and that was really important for us to do that,” said Michaels, the station’s news director, who has spent six of her 15 years in Bangor’s radio and TV market at WVII.
 
Both Michaels, 46, and Consiglio, 28, said frustration over the way they were allowed or told to do their jobs — something that has been steadily mounting for the last four years — became too much for them.

Maybe it's a start....

[vesta111]

Darn now that took Balls for both of them to do this together.  Neither of them are mush mouth cry baby's, doesn't look like they were angling for a raise, just more creative input to the show.

I bet it took them a year or so to get their shit into one sock and head out for opportunities that better suited them.    Good for them, heck of a decision to make for both of them, but they are not ones to allow anyone to keep them down.

 

[Eupher]

Darn now that took Balls for both of them to do this together.  Neither of them are mush mouth cry baby's, doesn't look like they were angling for a raise, just more creative input to the show.

I bet it took them a year or so to get their shit into one sock and head out for opportunities that better suited them.    Good for them, heck of a decision to make for both of them, but they are not ones to allow anyone to keep them down.

vesta, in reporting the NEWS and not editorializing on the NEWS, please explain how two news anchors provide "creative input" to the "show."

It seems to me their job is REPORTING the news.

If I want something creative in my NEWS, I'll go read Daily Kos or even Fox News.

[CG6468]

"Jouralists" are now taught to create the news and change the world, not to merely report the news.

[Eupher]

"Jouralists" are now taught to create the news and change the world, not to merely report the news.

Yeah, that's the problem.

[ColonelCarrots]

"Jouralists" are now taught to create the news and change the world, not to merely report the news.

I laugh when I see a journalist in a movie and they're like "I gotta report the truth." Yeah right.