{"id":10163,"date":"2023-03-26T19:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/mississippi-tv-news-anchor-removed-after-quoting-snoop-dogg-live-on-air\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T19:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:50:57","slug":"mississippi-tv-news-anchor-removed-after-quoting-snoop-dogg-live-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/mississippi-tv-news-anchor-removed-after-quoting-snoop-dogg-live-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi TV News Anchor Removed After Quoting Snoop Dogg Live On Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Longtime Mississippi news anchor appears to no longer be employed with the news team after saying, &#8220;Fo shizzle, my nizzle&#8221; on air<\/p>\n<p>Long-time WLBT journalist and meteorologist Barbie Bassett is no longer listed as a member of its news team as social media reports suggest she has\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VnN5cw4Z7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VnN5cw4Z7b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LockharTVMedia (@LockharTVMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LockharTVMedia\/status\/1639436851080491008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TV News Anchor Removed From Desk After Quoting Snoop Dogg Live On Air <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G7wsmvgfT7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/G7wsmvgfT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1639955932988809217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News anchor Barbara Bassett was let go from her job at NBC affiliate WLBT after she said \u201cFo shizzle, my nizzle\u201d on air while Snoop Dogg\u2019s wine line was being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>She previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/video\/2022\/10\/31\/barbie-bassett-apologizes-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">faced controversy<\/a> for referring to a black reporter\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpaige31\/status\/1586468474053832704?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grandmammy<\/a>,\u201d which she later apologized for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LockharTVMedia\/status\/1639436851080491008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/1639955932988809217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/125603034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Mississippi news anchor appears to no longer be employed with the news team after saying, &#8220;Fo shizzle, my nizzle&#8221; on air Long-time WLBT journalist and meteorologist Barbie Bassett is no longer listed as a member of its news team as social media reports suggest she has\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/VnN5cw4Z7b \u2014 LockharTVMedia (@LockharTVMedia) March 25, 2023 TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}