First off, I have to say I have ties to Colombia in so far as my two nephews were adopted by my sister when they were children. As a result I pay a bit more attention to news from Colombia than I do to other countries… thus how I came across this story.
Channel 1’s Cathy Bekerman was asked to resign after refusing the order by Yamid Amat, newscast director of the CM& broadcast network, the Agencia Judia de Noticias website reported on Wednesday.
Luckily there are religious tolerance laws in Colombia and Amat eventually apologized:
“One of my instructions, to accentuate a piece of news that was not about religious beliefs, provoked a rejection from my colleague Cathy Bekerman. Because I feel that I affected her religious convictions without that being my purpose, I offer her a public apology,” he wrote. “May the Jewish community and other religious organizations always receive a respectful treatment from me.”
Bekerman has accepted the apology and is in talks to return to the air.
See, this is how it is supposed to work.