So the huge news in Livingston County this week was that WHMI informed its longtime news director, Jon King, that he was being forced out of his job effective Feb. 25. While he hasn’t told the full story yet (that’s coming next week), King let it be known that he was forced out of the job because an advertiser pressured WHMI to fire him. Why? Well, we’ll get into this in a whole lot more detail, but the basic reason is this: Jon King is a very liberal newsman in a very conservative county. The yet-to-be-named advertiser didn’t like that
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