KHTS station owner Carl Goldman says that Carol Rock and Mark Archuleta were let go not due to pressure from the McKeon campaign as reported by the Down with Tyranny blog (and re-posted here) but because of financial reasons at the station:
More on this as it develops.
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Goldman: Layoffs were business-related, not due to McKeon pressure
We had to make a tough decision yesterday. We let two of our very talented reporters leave our team. It was an economic decision. Carol Rock has been a veteran reporter in Santa Clarita, having worked at the Signal, the Daily News and KHTS for many years. She knows our Valley and serves on many of our Valley’s finest non-profit boards. Mark Archuletta is a talented writer who is also passionate about his work. Sometimes owning a business can be challenging because we need to make some tough decisions. In this case, the economy has hit so many of the local businesses who we are dependent on for our advertising revenues. We needed to make cuts and no matter who we selected the act was going to be painful.
A number of blogs are saying our Congressman, Buck McKeon forced us to release Carol and Mark. This is not true.Full story here.
More on this as it develops.
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