Is reporting on the shooter’s love life a fireable offense? Of course not.
But the issue is how he reported and what he injected personally.
It’s highly unprofessional reporting to romanticize a brutal killer (like Luigi) by an
obviously gay reporter who is turned on by the use of the term “my love”.
Ask yourself how Mrs Kirk should feel about it. How should Kirk’s mom and dad feel about it?
How should Americans feel about a guy who is supposed to report the news romanticizing and sympathizing with a brutal murderer who blew a guy’s neck apart in front of children and innocent bystanders?
At minimum, he should be off the assignment as he has now shown his bias.
If his employer is concerned about regaining credibility as a news organization to regain viewership after years of bias reporting, and if they feel he now works against that effort, then they have every right to fire him.
PS - notice that after the “humanizing of the monster”, that you now refer to the shooter by his name? The bias already had some effect.
Sympathizing with the killer while villainizing the victim is deplorable…..this reporter intentionally or unintentionally moved the narrative in that direction. My final decision on his employment would rest on whether aI thought he did it on purpose or not.