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News Anchor Fired After Sharing Message To Trump-haters

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Should his private opinions affect this professional work?

Local Biloxi news anchor David “Dave” Elliott has reported he was fired after speaking about politics on social media in his free time. 

Elliot worked for South Mississippi-based news station WLOX for nearly 4 decades and, according to the Biloxi Sun Herald, once joked that he planned to die of old age in his anchor chair. As of Friday, however, the anchor appeared to be out of a job. 

“I’m no longer at Wlox as of 10-25-24. The corporation doesn’t like my political views,” Elliot wrote on Facebook. 

The news anchor had recently posted a video where he suggested people shouldn’t vote if they are just doing so out of hatred for former President Trump.

“This is so unlike me because I’m usually a ‘vote, vote, vote!’ guy. I’d like to see 100% voter turnout, whether it’s for your local sheriff or President of the United States, but if your hatred for Donald Trump is so strong — that’s kind of a sickness, by the way — but if it’s so strong that you’re planning to go in that voting booth and vote for Kamala Harris, do you listen to her? Do you know anything about her?” he asked in a video he posted to X Wednesday. “Anyway, do yourself, do the country, do the world a favor and just sit it out. Stay home, don’t vote. This has been a public service announcement.”

Elliott told the Sun Herald that general manager Rick Williams told him he was fired and that “X was brought up in the conversation, which lasted only about 30 seconds, because I left, I was like, ‘OK, see ya.”

Elliott also told the Sun Herald that his social media videos are satire, arguing that there is a distinction between his paid work for the news station versus his social media posts.

“I don’t consider social media journalism,” he said. “Social media is a toy. I have fun. I play. I look at it as satire.” 

“I get paid for doing television,” he said. 

6 COMMENTS

  1. He’s right tho. If you have DTS, and would vote Harris out of spite only vs policies Please stay home

    We want votes from voters who BELIEVE in their candidate.
    Not votes of ” anyone but Trump’s

    We’ve had the results of that from the last 4 years. That’s what happened to the USA under the “never Trumpers”. Total disaster

    Vote smart. For your future and the future of the USA

    Trump 2024. Vance 2028

  2. He found out he was working for a WOKE news station. Here’s hoping everyone within their viewing area treat them like they did this employee. FIRE THEM!

  3. He needs to check his contract. There are some pretty strict First Amendment infringement no-no’s in most of them, pertaining to news anchors and off-air free time. They could be doing future broadcasts from the WLOX Dave Elliott building.

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