WMAQ Anchor Likens Critic to David Duke

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: WMAQ Anchor Likens Critic to David Duke : by Broadcasting & Cable : -------------------------------------- : : It got downright nasty at an annual AFTRA meeting in Chicago Monday night, reports Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune, as WMAQ lead anchor Warner Saunders assailed former Sun-Times TV critic Robert Feder for perceived bias. : Writes Rosenthal: : Saunders said Feder diminished “the accomplishments of black talent while placing the spotlight on our deficiencies.” Noting it was Black History Month, the Channel 5 anchor said inviting Feder was “like choosing David Duke to serve as mohel at a circumcision.” : Duke was, of course, head of the Ku Klux Klan. : Saunders claims Feder, who left the Sun-Times with a buyout in October, treated minority anchors like Lester Holt and Diann Burns unfairly. (Saunders is set to retire in the spring.) : WMAQ is owned by NBC. : “I simply wanted to confront him, face to face,” Saunders said. “I just spoke my truth in front of a person who I felt has been unfair to me and to black journalists in this city. … Very few people who are not in our skin can understand this.” : Countered Feder: : “What I was writing about in each case had nothing to do with the individual’s race.”

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