Frank Somerville, a white news anchor for KTVU in San Francisco , has been removed from his post after he planned to go on live television and question the disproportionate media coverage of Gabby Petito who was found dead last week after she went missing, sources told Mercury News. The anchor wanted to add a brief tagline at the end of his news report to highlight how the media tends to focus on missing white women such as Petito while neglecting other groups. KTVU executives saw the tagline as inappropriate and indefinitely suspended the 63-year-old, who is the adoptive father of a Black girl, SF Gate reports . The latest incident at the news station comes after Somerville took a leave of absence to focus on his health earlier this year and returned to work nine weeks later. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Neighborhood Talk, LLC (@theneighborhoodtalk) In the wake of Petito's missing persons case, many other advocates have been noting the media's lack of...
