news fails

The footage has been making its way around the internet the last couple of days. AJ Clemente, a brand new news anchor with an NBC affiliate in Bismark North Dakota, got caught making a rookie mistake and saying some expletives while thinking the camera wasn't live.

When I became Program Director of Express Traffic back in 1996, my friend James Tayoun, a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. whose show I had produced on Sunday mornings, gave me a great piece of advice, “Never say anything about anybody that you wouldn’t say into an open microphone.” Someone should have given that same advice to Bismark news anchor A.J. Clement