BALTIMORE — A television journalist in Baltimore reportedly was fired over a doctored YouTube video in which a phrase describing the scrotum of an escaped zoo monkey was spliced into a comment about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
A video from a Fox News TV broadcast was altered to make it appear that Fox personality John Gibson said he would be discussing Holder and his scrotum. The altered video combined an innocuous comment about Holder with a separate snippet referring to an escaped monkey that was identifiable by its “bright blue scrotum.”
WBAL-TV, an NBC affiliate, issued a statement Tuesday saying a former employee posted the video on YouTube without the knowledge of the station. WBAL wouldn’t name the employee or discuss the employee’s departure.
But Fox News, The (Baltimore) Sun and other media outlets said it was one of the station’s reporters who posted the video and that he was fired.
A message seeking comment Tuesday from Holder’s office was not immediately returned.
