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Fox sports reporter sacked for Facebook Live racist slurs

on Jun 12, 2016 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Facebook Live is an entirely new medium allowing publishers on Facebook to broadcast directly to audiences – but just because you can go live, doesn’t mean you should, if this Fox Sports Florida gaffe is anything to go by.

In a live 35 minute broadcast, covering a Tampa Bay Rays game, reporter Emily Austen managed to fire off slurs against Mexicans, Jews and the Chinese, naturally seeing her dropped from the regional news channel.

The Tampa Bay Times notes among many slurs, that she said she “didn’t even know that Mexicans were that smart,” added that the “Chinese guy is always the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum