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UNITY's Statement on Aguilar's Suspension
MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It has come to the
attention of UNITY: Journalists of Color that a television reporter at
KDFW-TV Fox 4 in Dallas was suspended last week after public outcry over
her aggressive style of reporting.
The story by Rebecca Aguilar focuses on her questioning of a junkyard
dealer who had killed two alleged burglars in a span of three weeks.
Upon reviewing the interview, it is apparent that while Aguilar used
bold tactics to pursue the story, she did not violate any journalistic
standards. It is puzzling why KDFW chose to run Aguilar's piece, and then
suspended her only after the station received public pressure. Either her
reporting was a violation of the station's standards from the beginning and
should never have run, or the station should have -- out of fairness --
also suspended the decision-makers who aired the piece.
UNITY -- which represents nearly 10,000 journalists of color nationwide
-- believes Aguilar was singled out for disciplinary action to appease a
vocal sector of the public without regard to whether she violated
journalistic standards.
UNITY calls upon KDFW to reconsider its disciplinary action against
Aguilar, an award-winning journalist with years of experience in television
reporting. Let her right to pursue the truth, as well as the editors' right
to initially air that piece, both be judged by the same standard.
SOURCE UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.
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