Houston’s KRIV Fox 26, fired reporter, Scarlett Fakhar, over what she claims was her open support of President-elect Donald Trump.
Fakhar, 25, who celebrated Trump’s win at the polls on social media, posted support for Trump on her Facebook page while welcoming the end of Barack Obama‘s presidency. Soon after her posts, her bosses sent her a pink slip.
The former KRIV Fox 26 Houston reporter thanked her supporters on social media after she informed them that her bosses had dismissed her ‘for expressing my conservative views on my private Facebook page’, according to the Dallas Morning News. The station is an affiliate of the Fox television network. Fox 26 representatives confirmed on Friday that Fakhar is no longer with the station.
A source said that Fakhar was dismissed because part of her reporting duties including covering political issues during the newscasts.
Permitting her to express opinions publicly on the subject would compromise her impartiality and betray a political bias, the source concluded.
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