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That's oxygen to news outfits. And KTNV-TV, Channel 13, is running out of breathable air.
As the Sun reported, Nina Radetich was taped telling the owner of auto repair chain Tire Works - under investigation by Channel 13 for fraudulent practices - that her boyfriend could provide some media-spin consulting to combat her own station's negative reports.
Ethically? Obscene. Not that it's a job-breaker, apparently.
"We're standing by her 100 percent," says VP/GM Jim Prather. "She regrets having made that mistake and I think we have learned from this incident. Nina has worked very hard for more than a decade to provide news coverage to Las Vegas and I don't think we should lose sight of the work she's done."
True, and yet ... that hiss you hear? More air escaping the deflating balloon that is Channel 13 credibility.
"They've branded themselves as 'You Ask, We Investigate,' and she is the face of that with Darcy Spears, and there's a big problem when the face of it is manipulating it," says one Channel 13 insider. "It's unfortunate because viewers had been responding. I don't think it was malicious, but she's done damage. At other stations, she'd be suspended for investigation or fired."
Another source claims...