I'm not a TV news expert, but from what I've seen the weather guys do quite a bit of freewheeling when talking about the various locations. Here he had a picture of the park that's in his local area with a camera on it that he likely regularly accesses as part of his regular broadcast. Does he need that typed out for him? I don't know and you don't either.
And you clipped and ignored where I pointed out that some of the 'major media' including the local association of black broadcasters and therefore anyone linking to their statement got the story CORRECT, and the employer can simply watch the video, which I'm sure they did a dozen times or more.
And what you're completely failing to accept is the slur as a slur is in fact COMMON, and not a misspeak. That's a fact of life and a DIRECT cause of his firing. The question for the employer is whether this COMMON racist slur was a slip of the tongue or perhaps more akin to a Freudian slip of a guy who uses the racist term in his private life. If it was NOT a common racist slur, their job would be much, much, much easier. But it is common, and you need to accept that as part of the equation here, because that matters. It also sure as hell matters to those in the audience hearing him, because they've heard the slur intended as a slur many, many times.
I'm not "failing to accept" that people have said "Martin Luther Coon."
I'll happily back up and stand corrected if any evidence at all whatsoever surfaces that indicates even a whiff of racism in this guy.
But from everything I've seen, this appears to be a histrionic overreaction to a simple and common speech error called a
transposition by a throng of attention whores on social media, as well as a handful of emotionally overreactive morons on a city council immediately calling for the guy to be fired, in addition to the media repeatedly failing to accurately quote what the guy said.
If we're going to call for people to be fired, let's start here:
Whoever is responsible for writing and editing "Martin Luther Coon Park" as a quote of what the guy said should be fired for failing to make an accurate quote that was less than five words long. That's blatant incompetence.
The mayor and City Council be forced to resign for having directly contributed to trashing an innocent guy's career, because it shows extremely bad judgment, poor critical thinking, overreactive and unnecessary meddling, and/or lack of education on their part.
If they can call for an innocent guy to be fired because
they're ignorant of English speech and linguistics, I can certainly call for them to be fired for being histrionic, melodramatic, meddling idiots.