Dallas Morning News Reporter Says She Was Fired for Calling the Mayor ‘Bruh’ on Twitter
“Bruh, national news is always going to chase the trend. Cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships,” Mangrum said in a now-deleted tweet.tweet, he added: “Gotta love when folks let their inherent biases show. I get to be addressed as ‘bruh’ by someone who writes for my daily local paper whom I’ve never met.”Mangrum is currently without a job and moving back to her parents’ house in Florida. She told D Magazine that her tweet had been an attempt to stand up for her colleagues.
“Standing up for my colleagues and the work that we do, when I know we’re doing good and honest work, is something I pride myself on and something that I look for in my colleagues and in my workplace as well,” Mangrum said.The Dallas News Guild, the Morning News’ union, has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board protesting Mangrum’s firing.
Indeed, Mangrum has used “bruh” to speak to all sorts of people on Twitter, including fellow hockey fans, D reported . Nonetheless, she told D Magazine it wasn’t her place to determine whether people took her comment as a racist remark, although she clarified that it was not her intent.“I would never tell a person of color, ‘Oh, it wasn’t racist. You shouldn’t feel that way,’” Mangrum said. “But I know my intent, and it was not at all about race. I use that word with my friends and when I tweet about hockey. It’s just part of my vernacular. I grew up in Central Florida, and, you know, I’m a millennial.
One day later, after organizing and participating in a union protest against the Morning News, Mangrum was fired and told she had violated the outlet’s social media policy. She claims she was not told what specific part of the policy she violated.
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