NBC is at it again. Melanie Standiford a Nebraska reporter for NBC KNOP-TV has been fired because it was discovered she was collecting signatures on a petition for her church. Oh and Melanie Standiford is pro-life. Can’t have that at an NBC channel now can we?
Melanie Standiford, director and co-anchor for KNOP-TV news in North Platte, Nebraska, was fired for “practicing partisan politics.” Standiford reportedly collected signatures for a pro-life petition to make her hometown, Curtis, a sanctuary city for unborn babies, Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported.
KNOP-TV is an NBC affiliate (no surprise there) and is owned by Gray Television out of Atlanta. Staniford was surprised when her boss told her that she was being cut from the company over “practicing partisan politics.”
“I said in response, ‘partisan politics’? I don’t believe being pro-life is partisan,’” Standiford told CNA.
CNA indicated that Standiford’s dismissal came after Flatwater Free Press reported that she was collecting signatures for her pro-life petition. Supposedly people were grumpy that Standiford, a journalist, was collecting signatures on a so-called “partisan issue,” even though Standiford was doing so based on her religious convictions and on her own time.
“I told her, this is in the privacy of my church. This is something that I did, acting as a Christian, in the privacy of my church,” Standiford told the reporter from Flatwater Free Press, who then published a warped version of Standiford’s words.
Standiford was fired from KNOP-TV the day after the story’s publication.