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Yahoo News reports:
The firing of Meghan Mangrum, a former education reporter for The Dallas Morning News, comes after she spotted a Feb. 11 tweet from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson [photo] that alleged the local media had “no interest” in reporting on a drop in violent crime numbers in the city.
Johnson wrote the tweet despite multiple media outlets – including The Dallas Morning News – covering the drop. “Bruh, national news is always going to chase the trend. Cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships,” Mangrum wrote.
Mangrum, who is white, claimed that the executive editor at the paper, who is Black, later asked if she would use the word if Johnson was white.
Read the full article. The “bruh” tweet has been deleted.
And as we’ve seen recently, if policing or crime stories don’t feed into a particular narrative, the national media has zero interest in them. If it doesn’t feed into our worst tribal instincts or show a city devolving into violent crime-ridden chaos, the media will not cover it.
— Mayor Eric L. Johnson (@Johnson4Dallas) February 11, 2023
Bruh? Have we met?
— Mayor Eric L. Johnson (@Johnson4Dallas) February 11, 2023
Mayor Eric Johnson’s chief of staff, who was formerly a editor/reporter at the Dallas Morning News, directly commented on the situation when it originally happened and said calling the Mayor “bruh” was disrespectful. Before he was Mayor, Johnson had tweeted “bruh” a couple times. pic.twitter.com/EwgpKlrMf7
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 2, 2023
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) March 2, 2023