Bangor's longest running news team -- on a combination ABC and Faux News affiliate -- quit their jobs to the surprise of colleagues and viewers.



Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio have been anchors at ABC affiliate WVII and Fox affiliate WFVX in Bangor for six years, but claimed that the owners and managers had been increasingly intervening in their newscasts over the last four

The two quit on the air, without prior announcement to the staff, because they wanted a chance to say goodbye to their viewers.

As for why they gave up a job that they evidently loved?



“I just wanted to know that I was doing the best job I could and was being honest and ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I wasn’t able to do that,” said Consiglio ... Michaels said there were numerous things that contributed to their decisions. “It’s a culmination of ongoing occurrences that took place the last several years and basically involved upper management practices that we both strongly disagreed with,” she explained. “It’s a little complicated, but we were expected to do somewhat unbalanced news, politically, in general.”

Faux News ... direction to do "unbalanced news, politically" ... sacre bleu!

NOTE / UPDATE: TexasTom, at times vitriolically, adds points about this being about local station management and not Faux News. With that in mind, perhaps the last sentence could read:

While this is simply an affiliate and, therefore, seemingly without editorial control from News Corp, hard to not think of this within the context of Faux News. And, when it comes to something affiliated with Faux News, a direction to do "unbalanced news, politically" seems so shocking and out-of-context that, well, sacre bleu!

Additional update with tip of the hat to Notreadytobenice in comments: As for "simply an affiliate", WFVX's slogan:



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