{"id":20341,"date":"2013-09-02T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T23:09:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-02T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T23:09:01","slug":"fil-am-news-producers-firing-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=20341","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am news producer&#8217;s firing unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The firings of three producers at KTVU, a FOX affiliate in Oakland, California over the airing of offensive and erroneous names of Asiana Airlines pilots last July 12 has taken a racial turn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rodel Rodis, an officer of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations has turned to social media, calling on KTVU <strong>to apologize to the whole Asian community and the Filipino community, for firing Filipino-American Cristina Gastelu<\/strong>, a special projects producer, and not Michelle Toy, a Chinese-American who worked as managing editor for the station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An August 6th posting by Bay Area media blogger Rich Leiberman cited a source that said Toy was spared because \u201cKTVU didn&#8217;t want to offend the Asian Community.<\/strong> They already did so with the fake name scandal and they were worried about a backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0yzDjk-v8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what about Gastelu who&#8217;s also Asian?,\u201d raised Rodis. <strong>\u201cHow clueless can KTVU be to fire a Filipino-American but not a Chinese-American because they don&#8217;t want to offend the Asian community.<\/strong> Do they have a sense of the Filipino community being part of the Asian community? At one point, we were even larger than the Chinese population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides Gastelu, veteran producers Roland de Wolk and Brad Belstock also lost their jobs over the fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>Balitang America reached out to KTVU for comment. The station has not yet responded.<\/p>\n<p>Rodis said the National Federal of Filipino-American Associations is scheduled to meet soon to talk about the KTVU firing of Gastelu. He is confident that his group will file a resolution condemning KTVU for what he calls racial insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>Gastelu refused to talk to Balitang America. But former co-worker and fellow Filipino Lloyd LaCuesta shared she&#8217;s devastated. LaCuesta was already retired when the fiasco at KTVU took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is very, very upset about what happened. She&#8217;s taken it to heart. I hope it will not follow her. I hope she&#8217;s able to get another job in this business, because she&#8217;s a very valuable journalist,\u201d LaCuesta said.<\/p>\n<p>LaCuesta, however believes the community should not turn this into an issue about race. \u201cWhat I don&#8217;t want to see happen in this whole sidebar that we have about KTVU is that the focus isn&#8217;t taken off what happened in the air crash and what can be done to prevent that again,\u201d pointed out LaCuesta.<\/p>\n<p>Three died and dozens were injured after the Asiana&#8217;s Boeing 777 crash-landed onto the San Francisco International Airport last July 6. LaCuesta concluded that instead of just protecting one&#8217;s own, people should advocate for equal treatment and better journalism practices.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.abs-cbnnews.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The firings of three producers at KTVU, a FOX affiliate in Oakland, California over the airing of offensive and erroneous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The firings of three producers at KTVU, a FOX affiliate in Oakland, California over the airing of offensive and erroneous","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":118,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":3,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}