Skip to main content
‘AWFUL MISTAKE’

Mississippi News Anchor Off the Air After Racially Offensive Comments

Barbie Bassett, who is white, was scrubbed from the WLBT website after she quoted Snoop Dogg on a broadcast.

Barbie Bassett

Mississippi Egg Marketing Board

Barbie Bassett, an anchor at Mississippi’s WBLT, appears to be out of a job following two racially offensive on-air incidents. The Clarion Ledger reports that Bassett has not appeared on newscasts since March 8, after she quoted a Snoop Dogg lyric that used a variation on the N-word. In the fall, she came under fire for using the phrase “grandmammy”—evoking the slave trade—in an exchange with a Black reporter. At the time, Bassett, a former beauty pageant queen, called her remark an “awful mistake” and said she would undergo training.

Read it at Clarion Ledger

TRENDING NOW