The knee-jerk firing of South Bend, Indiana news anchor Erin Logan has inspired Facebook fan pages, a few starcasm articles and now a song! Take a listen to “The Ballad of Erin Logan” from local punk freestylers 2-Liter Bomb and find out what inspired them to record the grunge folk tune in our exclusive interview!
It’s a vicious Catch-22 when a television station can’t cover a big story because they are the story. WNDU in South Bend, Indiana ran into that problem when they fired their news anchor Erin Logan the day after she was arrested for disorderly conduct after having a few too many drinks. The news station announced her firing on their web site complete with a mug shot, then reconsidered and deleted it along with the readers’ comments.
Click to see the original page and some of the comments that were almost lost forever!
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