reporter: wolf, we got disturbing new details just a short time ago from the station manager jeff marks about vester flanag flanagan s very troubled worker who here at wdbj. he was only here less than a year. a few months in he exhibited signs of having problems with his work, he had problems with his news judgment, according to the station manager, with fact-checking. he once was confronted by he did confront an anchor who was assigned to work on his scripts. a short time ago, we got new information about items found in vester flanagan s car which indicated he may have wanted to disguise himself and escape. police found a wig, sunglasses, a shawl, three license plates, and six glock magazines inside vester flanagan s represent car. a search warrant revealed a to-do list, handwritten letters
and about anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj s 7 standard policy, protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan s job performance and interaction with his co-workers led his manager to place flanagan on a successive of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noticed each time. he was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check his facts in a news story and generally for poor news judgment. in january 2013, he accused one of the news photographers here
station previously. was let go two and a half years ago. adam reece is on the scene. your thoughts on what we heard? reporter: sure. he said that he arrived in 2012, march of 2012. he didn t even last a year. but he did come with some good reviews. mark said that isn t so hard to do in today s day and age. but it quickly went downhill from there. he quickly was receiving performance issues, anger issues, he failed to check facts. he had poor news judgment. soon after that, he was apparently having confrontations with an anchor person, also some photo journalists. it wasn t too long before management decided he needed to be fired. when they told him that, he said there s going to be a sting, you might want to call the police, it will be in the papers. that was very concerning to them. sure enough. it was a friday afternoon. several colleagues reported that there was a stink. he was throwing furniture around. people were very concerned about
anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj s standard policy and protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan s job performance and interaction with his coworkers led his manager to place flanagan on a succession of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noted each time. flanagan was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check facts in a news story and generally for poor news judgment. in january 2013, he accused one of the news photographers here of making trouble for him by questioning a decision to go on
and 24 million viewers and don t get the sense here there s 1% for everybody, a floor, low standards. so, fox had no floor. you think it is better that cnn will have a 1% floor? yeah, because what if there was a 5% floor? well, and the fox, 5% support, you split made the cut, you might have not made the cut, depending on the ranking. we don t want to have a ranking because of the error margin and the range. so you have taken away the rounding, that s good. both you and fox are using good, scientific polls. the democracy will not suffer if there s no mcclatchy/marist poll for your debate as there wasn t for the fox debatism just think from a public poll standpoint, do we really want the polls playing such a big role and do we want the media relying not on their own news judgment as to who should be include bud on what the polls are saying, which statistically, may not be all that important, might be rather meaningless. also, the parties issue, the ones that have 17 canned dad and