Summary

A Sports Reporter is fired after writing an article with extreme sexual innuendo in the sports section. The editor missed the article. It offended so many people that the newspaper had its employees go to newspapers that are still on the shelves and cut the article out of it.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 24034
Story Slug Reporter Fired For Sexual Ennuendo (02/21/1997)
Location Gallatin, Tennesee
Format Pkg*
Date 02/21/1997
Archive Time 51:24
TRT 1:53
Supers Gallatin, Tennesee Jennifer Kraus, Reporting Steve Rogers, News Examiner Editor
Video Description Newspaper article, sots of peoples reactions, graphics of explicit language, News Examiner editor, Newspaper machines, article cut out of newspaper, Newspaper Building.
Description A Sports Reporter is fired after writing an article with extreme sexual innuendo in the sports section. The editor missed the article. It offended so many people that the newspaper had its employees go to newspapers that are still on the shelves and cut the article out of it.
Script LEAD: Imagine picking up the morning paper and finding an X-rated story...That's exactly what happened in Gallatin today. Jennifer Kraus reports.
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