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Re: Rowlett Slams Ducas

Posted on January 21st, 2008 4:17pm by Glenn Hunter
Filed under Media

One attendee at Ed Bark’s Saturday interview with Tracy Rowlett was Rebecca Aguilar, the Fox4 reporter who was indefinitely suspended a few months ago for allegedly “ambush”-interviewing a 70-year-old property defender. Asked what she was doing these days, Aguilar replied: “I started my fourth month [on suspension last] Wednesday. I’m pretty much being paid to stay home.”

7 Comments to “Re: Rowlett Slams Ducas”

Candace Evans @ January 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Gosh, if I was a Belo shareholder, I would just love knowing that my hard-invested dollars were paying an errant reporter to stay-at-home.
J. Paul @ January 21st, 2008 at 4:59 pm

Belo owns Fox4?
Candace Evans @ January 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm

No, I was wrong. Unfortunately, not the first time… Rupert Murdoch?
Candace Evans @ January 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm

News Corporation http://www.newscorp.com/ owns Fox 4. My point is that whoever owns it, the shareholders ought to be enraged. News Corp releases its fiscal second quarter financials in early February…
MIssing Dots @ January 21st, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Oh my. Any idea how big NewsCorp is? 4 months of her salary is minimal. Perhaps their legal team decided it was cheaper to pay her rather than have something settled in court.
Dave Thomas @ January 21st, 2008 at 11:52 pm

There’s no question that a big company like News Corporation will do whatever costs them less. If paying Aguilar to sit is cheaper than fighting a legal battle, they’ll pay her to sit for years. I guess if I were her I’d start to enjoy it after a while and get a good resume together for my next job.
ChuckE @ January 22nd, 2008 at 12:36 pm

If she’s suspended much longer, they’ll have to introduce her as a new reporter when (if) she comes back.