TV Reporter Fired For Asking David Vitter About Prostitutes
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Derek Myers, formerly with WVLA in Baton Rouge, asked the Louisiana Senator about his history of patronizing prostitutes. Myers lost his job.
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Myers told Gawker that a coworker at WVLA informed him of a conversation that he or she overheard between the station’s news director and its vice president of news later that day, during which the threat of pulled campaign advertising was allegedly discussed. After it was stated that the station’s general manager should personally apologize to the Vitter campaign for Myers’ questions, “It was said that David Vitter pulled his advertising dollars, or someone from David Vitter’s office called about ad dollars,” Myers said. He declined to name the coworker who informed him about the alleged conversation.
Luke Bolar, a spokesman for Vitter’s gubernatorial campaign, told the Advocatethat the campaign did not raise the issue of pulling its advertising, calling Myers’ claim “1,000 percent false.” WVLA general manager Jim Baronet also told the Advocate that the campaign did not contact the station about advertising but declined to comment on the reasons for Myers’s termination, citing company policy.
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