Someone working for The Weather Channel in Des Moines, IA, is in big, big trouble after viewers were visually assaulted by a shocking, inappropriate, and downright racist graphic featuring the N-word on live television.
Blue-check journalist Matthew Keys called out the disturbing graphic on his Twitter account, with a screenshot photo of the “Local on the 8s” segment where they aired a graphic on the screen that read, “Hello Des Moines, This is your weather my ni**ers.”
The Weather Channel confirms this graphic accidentally made it on air in the Des Moines market on Thursday during a “Locals on the 8s” segment. I’ve blurred it, but I’m pretty sure you can figure out what it said. pic.twitter.com/hDVcomawGp
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) July 22, 2022
A spokesperson for The Weather Channel spoke with Keys and said, “This did not originate with us, and we are in the process of investigating it further.”
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Keys himself reported on the matter, following the spokesperson’s statement, “It likely originated at the cable head-end, according to a source, though the network is still trying to figure it out.”
“This did not originate with us, and we are in the process of investigating it further,” a spokesperson for the Weather Channel said.
It likely originated at the cable head-end, according to a source, though the network is still trying to figure it out.
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) July 22, 2022
Twitter was, naturally, full of some unhappy campers over the matter:
Of course it did not originate with them pic.twitter.com/wq8MBuwY5z
— Randy (@RandyB066) July 23, 2022
Well… there is an intern that won’t be invited back….
— Spudmonkey:”And the meek shall inherent the earth” (@spudmonkey66) July 23, 2022
Hard r
— Hot Tub Hank (soon to be Pool Hank) (@HTw1ttersucks) July 23, 2022
Damn, kept the hard R.
— Daniel Flores (@danielsflowers) July 23, 2022
MainStream Media: Honest Mistake
— TheBlackMichaelScott (@Moviemikescott) July 22, 2022
Someone definitely won’t have a job soon.
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