US journalist Shea Allen recently came under fire after she wrote a personal blogpost with confessions to her broadcasting career – she now reports that she has been let go.
The reporter admitted to freeboobing in a blogpost but took the post offline after she claims that the list caught too much flack by her employer.
“No one was the wiser”, Shea wrote about her bra-less broadcasts in the blogpost titled “Confessions of a Red Headed Reporter.”
Allen then reposted the list with an added paragraph saying that she will make “no apologies for the following re-post” and that she “vowed to always fight for the right of free expression.”
The journalist tweeted out that she was let go by the ABC affiliate WAAY-TV because of the list and said that she would tell the real story of her termination.
Here’s the list in question that was posted on Allen’s blog:
1. I’ve gone bra-less during a live broadcast and no one was the wiser.
2. My best sources are the ones who secretly have a crush on me.
3. I am better live when I have no script and no idea what I’m talking about.
4. I’ve mastered the ability to contort my body into a position that makes me appear much skinner in front of the camera than I actually am.
5. I hate the right side of my face.
6. I’m frightened of old people and I refuse to do stories involving them or the places they reside.
7. Happy, fluffy, rainbow stories about good things make me depressed.
8. I’ve taken naps in the news car.
9. If you ramble and I deem you unnecessary for my story, I’ll stop recording but let you think otherwise.
10. I’ve stolen mail and then put it back. (maybe)
The now former TV reporter said that her blogpost was meant to be “funny” and “satirical” but also wasn’t in anyway “fake.”
She tweeted that she “terminated without cause” by her employer.
“I do not want to be a joke,” Allen said speaking to the Huntsville Times/al.com.
“I am a journalist through and through. I believe in what I do. I believe that as a journalist, I should be a watchdog. I should be a protector of people’s rights.”
“I never got into this to be the pretty girl on TV. I got into this because I wanted a job that I loved and a job where I felt like I was making a difference. And I had found it.”
