WWL Radio tweets homophobic slur about WWL sports reporter Seth Dunlap

WWL issued a statement that it was abhorrent or something to that effect. I don't think that simply issuing a statement would resolve the situation for Seth - he needs to know who did it and what has come of it. What if it was a producer or manager he works with?

I don't think there needs to be some public shaming, that's another can of worms. But internally, WWL needs to find out who did it and they need to share with Seth their findings and what they're doing about it. Just imagine that instead of someone attacking Seth with the offensive slur on the employer's twitter page, they jumped him in the secure building and knocked him out - but he didn't know who did it. Certainly we would all expect the employer to investigate and if they were able to determine who did it, the targeted employe would certainly expect to be shared that information and what was going to be done about it. It's no different.

It is not criminal to call someone a slur. It is criminal to attack someone physically. Two different animals. Now it is certainly100% a reprehensible act and unacceptable to call someone a slur. No doubt about that. But WWL is going to have a significant price potentially, from a standpoint of listening audience and revenue stream, if nothing else and depending on the findings. In a workplace environment, if a slur is used, you will get fired most times. But from a criminal nature, nothing is illegal. Civil? I don’t think so either. If so, the court system would be overrun with similar cases.