Rebecca Aguilar finally FIRED from FOX! It's about time.

[swifteagle]

Rebecca Aguilar finally FIRED from FOX for what she did to that kind gentleman! It's about time. Don't let the door hit you on the way out Rebecca . . . .

http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/goodbye-rebecca-aguilar-good-riddance.html

 

[TexasRifleman]

Another thread ongoing in Activism on this.

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=345523

 

[Vicious-Peanut]

Excellent, I was just talking to my father about this last weekend too.

 

[MGNiko]

buh bye!

 

[Guitargod1985]

Would someone please elaborate? What exactly did she do to warrant such an action?

EDIT: Nevermind. I'm glad that she was fired.

 

[bowl443]

"Guitargod1985"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rIZhzfTZTA

 

[Owen Sparks]

Obviously this reporter does not believe it right to use deadly force to protect property. It's a good thing the patriots of old didn't think this way. king George didn't want to KILL anyone. He just wanted to skim a little loot off the tea business and to have a little more control over the people.
Life Liberty and property are all worth defending. Otherwise thieves and tyrants have their way.

 

[TAB]

llisen to him and look at him... he is having a TIA( kind of like a mini stroke) I've seen it way to often in my grandfather...

 

[Starship1st]

Good-bye! Too bad;so sad. She is a real peace of work.

 

[eflatminor]

I'm surprized she was fired for that interview. Granted, she came off as a typical 'anti' but heck, that's the case with most reporters today. Why exactly was she fired?

 

[rocinante]

I would like to think she was fired for an astonishing lack of professionalism and uncivilized aggression in the way she conducted the interview that the public righteously called FOUL. But given the media that probably is not the case.

When I read she got canned I grinned.

 

[swifteagle]

I'm surprized she was fired for that interview. Granted, she came off as a typical 'anti' but heck, that's the case with most reporters today. Why exactly was she fired?

I think she was fired for multiple reasons, not the least of which was the fact that she admitted he asked that they not show his face & asked that they turn off the camera yet showed his face anyway, and continued recording with the camera on the ground tricking him into thinking it was off - then the fact that she stated leading questions like:

"are those tears of what? of remorse? ... are you a trigger happy kind of person, is that what you wanted to do, shoot, to kill?"

 

[NG VI]

I hope she never gets another job in "news" again. I'd be thrilled if the man successfully brought a civil suit against her for privacy violations, blatant ones. It's about time that her type of person gets the court system used against them, they're too comfortable thinking judicial and legislative branches belong to them and are for their use only.

 

[Soybomb]

I hope she never gets another job in "news" again. I'd be thrilled if the man successfully brought a civil suit against her for privacy violations, blatant ones.

What privacy violation? The man was out in a public place, I don't know what sort of suit could be brought against her.

That aside it seems like she's a bad journalist and was interested more in sensationalism than the story, and in my book a bad person, but you can't get sued for being a disgusting person.

 

[ScottsGT]

How about the scumbag newsproducer that allowed this piece of crap to be aired! :banghead: I hope that person is standing right behind her at HR of CNN. You do know this probably just furthered her career with some agency like CNN? Al least Fox took The High Road here!

 

[lanternlad1]

She is the only one who got fired. The other staffers involved got a week suspension. At least thats what she said in her "pity me" speech.

 

[CountGlockula]

Here's another article: Hope it helps...

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/10/kdfw_suspends_rebecca_aguilar.php

KDFW Suspends Rebecca Aguilar After Controversial "Ambush"
Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 03:30:29 PM

A few days after receiving a major award, KDFW-Channel 4's Rebecca Aguilar has been suspended from the Fox affiliate.Monday night, KDFW-Channel 4 ran a piece about 70-year-old James Walton, owner of Able Walton Machine & Welding in West Dallas, who, early Sunday morning, shot and killed a man trying to break into his business. What made Walton's story so extraordinary was that it was the second time he'd killed an intruder in three weeks. As it happens, Walton also lives at his place of business.

But today you will not find the Fox4 story on the station's Web site; there's a page for it, but no accompanying video. (Update: It's available here.) That's because Rebecca Aguilar's piece elicited a torrent of outrage, both on local blogs (chiefly FrontBurner but also elsewhere) and from viewers who began deluging the station with angry calls Monday night and much of the day yesterday. As Trey Garrison pointed out on D's blog:

This is her idea of journalism? Ambushing a 70-year-old man who has been through life-and-death twice in three weeks? "Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what what you wanted to do? Shoot to kill?" Good Lord, I hate the people in this field.

Well, Trey need not worry about Aguilar, at least for a while: Unfair Park has confirmed that Aguilar -- who was just named one of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Broadcast Journalists of the Year -- has been indefinitely suspended, based on concerns about how Aguilar treated Walton. She could not be reached for comment, but Unfair Park did leave Aguilar a message on her cell phone. (When we tried her number in the newsroom, another woman answered and said, "Rebecca isn't available today.") We also left a message for Maria Barrs, the station's news director. --Robert Wilonsky

Update: Tim Rogers at D magazine has posted a letter National Association of Hispanic Journalists president Rafael Olmeda sent to KDFW-Channel 4 vice president and station manager Kathy Saunders, in which Olmeda demands the station reinstate Aguilar immediately. He raises several points, chief among them: Aguilar didn't "ambush" Walton, because Walton told her earlier he'd be at the Academy where she interviewed him. He also wonders why others responsible for the newscast weren't similarly punished.

 

[NG VI]

I said she violated his privacy because as far as I know, unless you are a public figure or looking for public attention, doing things that you could reasonably expect to attract attention to yourself, if a professional puts their camera on you and you request that they turn it off and not use the footage, it's pretty unethical to trick them and use the footage anyway.

When I was in AIT it was for Photography and Videography, not even journalism, but our instructors went over privacy many times.

She is pretty vile.

I don't know much about law, but her type of person is the type to sue over being "wronged", wronged for her meaning something happening not in her favor. I'd like to see the court system be used aggressively a few times to discourage people from doing that. sort of like I'd like to see certain anti-gun campaigns sued for wasting resources and money trying to introduce idiotic legislation and lawsuits against firearm manufacturers, and lawsuits against malicious prosecutors. A little accountability for those people, so they'll stop trying to ruin people with legal fees when they've done nothing wrong. you don't need to be found guilty to have your life wrecked by a long court battle.

 

[News Shooter]

It isn't really a privacy issue. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy when you are out in public. It was instead an ethical issue.

 

[gunsmith]

just remembering that ordeal gets me angry

When she looks in the mirror, she doesn't see a Nazi.
When I look at her, that is what I see.
James Walton didn't "shoot to kill" (as if any shooting doesn't have the potential to be fatal )
It was Rebecca Aguilar who was "shooting to kill"
only she shoots with a camera, if the family and friends of
( the deceased thugs )
kill Mr Walton you can be pretty sure they got a good idea about what he looks like from her TV station.

 

[Pat-inCO]

If you watch the video clip you see that what she did is, at least in the state I live in, considered menacing. She interfered with his ability to leave. She then persisted in extremely biased questioning.

It is coming to be known as "Assault Journalism".

Let's see. We now have assault bicycles (NY, yesterday), assault journalists (the subject of this thread and one last month in Denver). GEEZ! what's next? Democrats admitting that they are the cause of a lot of this?

We all know that ain't gonna happen.

 

[Mute]

 

[Kind of Blued]

I hope that broad's career is over, of course, I wouldn't even want her flipping my burgers.

 

[Scanr]

This will make a good plus on her resume to get hired on at MSNBC.

 

[grimjaw]

I don't think there was anything especially anti- about her. She probably would have done the same thing if he'd stabbed the two burglars and found him after he bought another knife.

She reminds me of Bill O'Reilly and others like him in that style of reporting: intimidation journalism.

I just wish O'Reilly would end up in the same line as Aguilar at the unemployment office.

jm