Iowa news team is receiving severe backlashes from social media folks for putting “This is Your Weather My N*****s” on live television. Social media people aren’t taking it lightly as they’re calling out the news team for such an offensive title on the screens.
According to Vlad;
“The Weather Channel” in Des Moines, Iowa, is facing an insurmountable wave of criticism after they broadcasted a graphic to their viewers that read, “This is your weather my N*ggers.” The incident occurred during a routine segment of the show called “Local on the 8s.”
Although the image was only seen by local viewers at the time, once the photo surfaced on social media, it went viral, causing a national PR nightmare for the management team at The Weather Channel. Since then, officials at The Weather Channel in Des Moines have claimed that they accidentally showed the image after it was produced by someone outside of their organization without their knowledge.
“This [‘imagine] did not originate with us, and we are in the process of investigating it further,” wrote a spokesperson in a tweet. “
Later, the Weather Channel furthered its viewpoint with an official statement, including an apology, on Facebook.
“A graphic during the Weather Channel cable network’s ‘Local on the 8s’ presentation in Des Moines last evening included a racial slur…We removed this graphic as soon as we learned of it. This did not originate with us, and we are in the process of investigating it further. We apologize to our viewers.”
This seems like a prank considering there can’t be too many brothers in Des Moines, Iowa. With that being said a lot of people didn’t think it was very funny and is calling for someone’s head to roll over this. The question begs was it someone at the Weather Channel or did they get hacked?
We may never know the true answer to that.
Flip to the next page for the reactions on Twitter…