Detroit TV anchor caught on video calling her boss a ‘bitch’ in profanity-laced newsroom blowup
A fired Detroit TV news anchor was caught on video calling her boss a “bitch” during a heated newsroom confrontation — before fuming that she was “so done with her antics” and complaining that the woman was “telling on me every five seconds.” The anchor, Taryn Asher, was recording the PSA when the tense newsroom exchange unfolded at WJBK-TV Fox 2 Detroit, where she was pulled from the air in November of last year. Asher is now suing the station for sex discrimination and retaliation, while Fox claims her removal followed “unprofessional workplace behavior” and “outbursts.” The video, first flagged by FTVLive and Deadline Detroit, shows Asher apparently responding to someone off-camera as a dispute develops over scripts and the workflow surrounding the recording.
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A fired Detroit TV news anchor was caught on video calling her boss a “bitch” during a heated newsroom confrontation — before fuming that she was “so done with her antics” and complaining that the woman was “telling on me every five seconds.” The anchor, Taryn Asher, was recording the PSA when the tense newsroom exchange unfolded at WJBK-TV Fox 2 Detroit, where she was pulled from the air in November of last year. Asher is now suing the station for sex discrimination and retaliation, while Fox claims her removal followed “unprofessional workplace behavior” and “outbursts.” The video, first flagged by FTVLive and Deadline Detroit, shows Asher apparently responding to someone off-camera as a dispute develops over scripts and the workflow surrounding the recording. I’m in Amy’s script, the Amy’s Angels one,” Asher says. “There was—the second thing didn’t make sense, so I was just trying to fix that part and…” “I know, but I didn’t have time because we have to do this, so I was still reading it,” she continues.
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- A fired Detroit TV news anchor was caught on video calling her boss a “bitch” during a heated newsroom confrontation — before fuming that she was “so done with her antics” and complaining that the woman was “telling on me every five seconds.” The anchor, Taryn Asher, was recording the PSA when the tense newsroom exchange unfolded at WJBK-TV Fox 2 Detroit, where she was pulled from the air in November of last year. Asher is now suing the station for sex discrimination and retaliation, while Fox claims her removal followed “unprofessional workplace behavior” and “outbursts.” The video, first flagged by FTVLive and Deadline Detroit, shows Asher apparently responding to someone off-camera as a dispute develops over scripts and the workflow surrounding the recording.
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