Roy Hobbs, a news anchor on ABC 33/40, was arrested on drug charges last week. Apparently, he has had a run in with the law before, but this time it didn’t work out too well for him. This disturbed me a little bit. It bothered me that a person I trusted to give me the news is fooling around with bad things and causing local problems. The station has put him on temporary leave, but I can’t imagine them bringing him back after this is all over.

This is horrible PR for the TV station. If they didn’t drug test their employees before this, they will now. It’s sad in today’s world that it is such a risk to hire employees who could end up hurting the reputation of the company and taint the image of the other employees. ABC is handling it in the best way possible in my opinion: by not talking about it and moving forward. What else can you do?