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Six Seconds Of Video, And The Argument That FollowedFEBRUARY 1, 2004 · 15:32
A television network's meteorologist was fired this week for calling a school shooting's location 'not in a tornado zone'. Her union says she was not given the opportunity to retract the statement. The network says she was not given the opportunity to retract it because she made it six seconds before the broadcast ended.
A WEATHER MAP. THE WEATHER WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF THIS ARTICLE.
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A WEATHER MAP. THE WEATHER WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF THIS ARTICLE.
WASHINGTON, February 1 -- The National Weather Service has reinstated a meteorologist suspended last month after she said, on live television, that a school shooting in Minnesota had occurred 'in a town that is not in a tornado zone'.
The Service has referred the case to an administrative judge. The union has called the firing 'an abdication of the First Amendment by a federal agency', a phrase which several former agency employees described in interviews as 'exactly the kind of sentence we are paid not to write'.
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