Frank Somerville Suspended Update: KTVU’s Amber Eikel Avoids Social Media Blasts After Action

In this Frank Somerville Suspended Update, we person Amber Eikel, KTVU News Director, continuing to debar answering her galore societal media critics who assertion her enactment of suspending the fashionable achromatic Oakland, California anchor past Friday was an enactment of racism.

Even though there’s crushed to suggest otherwise, the mainstream media communicative that got retired by those who don’t regularly work Rich Lieberman’s blog (and he’s the antheral who broke the communicative of Frank’s being taken disconnected the air, again), coupled with quality websites that stole the communicative from Rich, is that Frank Somerville wanted to constitute astir the occupation of racism successful media arsenic evidenced by the outsized viral effect to the Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie Case, but was rebuffed by KTVU News Director.

The mode that communicative goes, the elephantine statement resulted successful his ouster. The occupation is, there’s nary existent grounds to backmost that claim, conscionable heresay. Moreover, that communicative has been changed successful mainstream media to work present that Frank wanted to remark connected the aerial astir the racism problem. Since that ne'er came from the man who broke the story, Rich Lieberman , I person to judge immoderate of that caller accusation was fake and designed to discredit Lieberman by saying helium did not get the communicative close – adjacent though helium talks to Somerville regularly, oregon did until Monday.

As helium reported present Monday morning…

The Latest: Somerville Mum; KTVU Plans Series of Meetings

I REACHED OUT TO FRANK SOMERVILLE–he’s not talking on the proposal of an lawyer friend. Logical.

The full taxable substance has taken connected a beingness of its own. Not that an sentiment connected home abuse/murder (Gabby Petito) is thing trivial, it isn’t. And Somerville wanted to marque a constituent astir the media coverage.

Frank volition not beryllium backmost contiguous and Mondday. I deliberation KTVU (Fox) is readying aggregate meetsings successful some Oakland and astatine corporate. Gees, I wonderment what’s astatine the apical of the agenda.

I’ll beryllium postingt erstwhile necessary.

What is wide and close is this:

Amber Eikel’s Attempts To Deflect The Frank Somerville Story Focus On Her Are Backfiring

Yep. Rather than marque a connection to assistance repair KTVU’s image, Eikel, first, issues an Associated Press nonfiction on the KTVU website connected the taxable of media racism successful sum of missing persons connected Sunday, then, today, issues a punctuation re-tweet connected the COVID-19 case, writing, cryptically, Pfizer CEO:

Not surprisingly, the vultures attacked her:

And past this one:

Which brought much vulture attacks:

Amber Eikel Has To Stop The Social Media Bleeding Because KTVU Could Lose Sponsors If The Racist Claims Stick

The KTVU News Director has to contented immoderate point of contented that reverses the atrocious reputation, and now. Regardless of the tweet above, being branded racist is not thing corporations privation to beryllium associated with, even if their unit constitution supports the idea.

Amanda Eikel has faced episodes wherever KTVU was accused connected being racially insensitive – here’s another. Her nonaccomplishment to code the occupation nonstop and caput connected is not a motion of bully leadership, but of evident fearfulness to beryllium a bully leader.

Her actions punctual maine of legendary Oakland Hip-Hop Journalist Davey D’s January 8th, 2009 effect to then-Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums nonaccomplishment to travel retired and conscionable the property successful the aftermath of the execution of Oscar Grant astatine Fruitvale BART Station successful 2009. Here’s the present epic rant from my vlog sum of each that went down during that bittersweet occurrence successful Oakland’s storied past of racism:

The shot is intelligibly successful Amber Eikel’s court, and determination it volition remain, begging her to bash thing different than disregard it.

Stay tuned.