Frank Somerville, 63, reportedly wanted to add a brief tagline at the end of a KTVU report to talk about missing White woman syndrome. Petito's case has captured news headlines for weeks. According to station sources, Somerville, 63, has been suspended indefinitely by Channel 2 management after a disagreement with news director Amber Eikel over coverage of the Gabby Petito. A news anchor from San Francisco has been suspended indefinitely after an argument with the stations news director over media coverage of the Gabby Petito homicide case.

Laundrie refused to cooperate with the police investigation into Petito's disappearance and has been missing since September 17. Her body was found about a week later, and the FBI ruled her death homicide.

Petito, 22, was reported missing by her family on September 11 after her fiancГ©, Brian Laundrie, arrived home from a road trip across the US without her. He was taken off the air in May after slurring and stumbling over his words while reading from a teleprompter, and he had only recently returned after an eight-week suspension. The news anchor's suspension is his second this year, per The Mercury News. Somerville, who is white and has an adopted Black daughter, was said to have pushed back against management after being told his suggestion was 'inappropriate.' The sources told the outlet that Somerville wanted to acknowledge the disparities in media attention between cases of missing white women and those of Indigenous women and women of color. His future at the station has been in doubt since he disappeared from the 10 O'Clock News. KTVU anchor and Gabby Petito (inset) KTVU (San Francisco Bay Area) news anchor Frank Somerville has been removed from air after a disagreement with news. Sources told The Mercury News that Frank Somerville, the anchor for the Bay Area Fox station KTVU, was 'suspended indefinitely' after he suggested a segment on Petito should include a line questioning the amount of media coverage her case had received. Somerville has been on the anchor desk at KTVU since 2008, and he's worked for the station since 1991. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.ДЄ San Francisco news anchor is said to have been taken off the air in a dispute over Gabby Petito coverage. Sources told the outlet Somerville had wanted to note coverage disparities in missing-women cases. Frank Sommerville, born Frank William Somerville is an American journalist who anchors the five-oclock, six-oclock, ten-oclock, and eleven-oclock news hours. The anchor was 'suspended indefinitely,' The Mercury News reported. The news anchor Frank Somerville was said to be removed over a dispute about Gabby Petito coverage. We hope to show the San Francisco Bay Area supports Somerville and that the San Francisco Bay Area wants a removal of Somerville's indefinite suspension and his return to his post as anchor at San Francisco Bay Area's KTVU Fox 2.Gabby Petito talking to the camera in a YouTube upload. We are starting this petition to hopefully gather support to stop Somerville's indefinite suspension and bringing him back on air. Somerville's concern is part of a national conversation on why such disparities in news media coverage exist. Frank Somerville is a local news anchor at San Francisco Bay Area's KTVU Fox 2.ДЄccording to news reports, Somerville was indefinitely suspended because he tried to raise awareness of how missing people of color do not get the same coverage as missing white women.

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