An ABC News executive, Barbara Fedida, allegedly made a pick cotton comment when Robin Roberts tried to negotiate her contract renewal for more money.
It was revealed that Fedida allegedly used her position of power as senior vice president of talent and business to hurl racist insults directed at Black staffers in a lengthy exposuré on Saturday.
She questioned giving Good Morning America’s anchor Roberts a pay raise in her a contract renewal. It is worth noting that Roberts is a staple of the morning program, and she has been since her introduction in 2002.
The report says she asked herself what more could Roberts want from her contract negotiation. It is not as if she was “pick[ing] cotton.”
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Sources told HuffPost that Fedida would compare the expense of the company’s toilet paper supply to Kendis Gibson, a former Black anchor, saying she spent more on rolls than Gibson’s salary.
Ironically, Fedida was tasked with ABC News’ diversity and inclusion efforts, to which she allegedly hate doing.
According to five of HuffPost’s sources, she does not care much about the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), an organization of African-American journalists, students, and media professionals that seeks inclusion and representation in the media industry, according to five of HuffPost’s sources.
In a Sunday newsletter, The New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ), a local chapter of the NABJ, has expressed
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