“We believe strongly in holding our reporters and anchors to the highest standard.” “As a result of that broadcast, meteorologist Jeremy Kappell is no longer with News10NBC,” Reingold said in a statement. Reingold, the vice president and general manager of WHEC, announced that Kappell had been fired. The usage of the racial epithet caused a stir on social media and in the Rochester community. I had no idea the way it came across to many people.”
He continued, “In my mind, I knew I mispronounced, but there was no malice. Martin Luther King Jr., so fast to the point where I jumbled a couple of words.” “If you watch me regularly, you know that I tend to contain a lot of information in my weathercast, which forces me to speak fast and, unfortunately, I spoke a little too fast when I was referencing Dr. “What happened on Friday, to me, it’s a simple misunderstanding,” Kappell said in a Facebook video posted on Monday. The meteorologist claimed that he misspoke as a result of speaking “too fast.”
Jeremy Kappell, a meteorologist at a Rochester, New York television station, was fired on Sunday after allegedly using a racial slur during a broadcast.Īccording to The Hill, Kappell was let go by WHEC because he allegedly said “Martin Luther C**n” during the Friday evening broadcast when referening a local park named after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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