{"id":6023,"date":"2014-12-17T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2014-12-17T19:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T01:22:34","slug":"abc-7s-mark-giangreco-apologizes-for-cut-your-wrists-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/17\/abc-7s-mark-giangreco-apologizes-for-cut-your-wrists-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 7's Mark Giangreco apologizes for \u2018cut your wrists\u2019 graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6024\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/17\/abc-7s-mark-giangreco-apologizes-for-cut-your-wrists-graphic\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6024\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6024\" alt=\"Mark Giangreco\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco.png 560w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco-300x191.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco-150x95.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco-400x255.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mark-Giangreco-200x127.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Mark Giangreco<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mark Giangreco, veteran sports anchor at <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WLS-Channel 7,<\/a> apologized Wednesday for the wording of a graphic that offended some viewers for its facetious allusion to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Under a picture of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, the graphic over Giangreco\u2019s shoulder said: \u201cCut him or cut your wrists.\u201d It aired during the ABC-owned station\u2019s 10 p.m. newscast Tuesday and touched off a firestorm on social media.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy remarks were inappropriate, and I deeply regret and apologize for this incident,\u201d Giangreco said in a statement posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvspy\/wls-sports-anchor-apologizes-for-suicide-reference_b136461\" target=\"_blank\">TVSpy.<\/a> \u201cI will be issuing an on-air apology in this evening\u2019s newscast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giangreco, 62, joined ABC 7 as sports director and main sports anchor in 1994 after 12 years at NBC-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Giangreco, veteran sports anchor at WLS-Channel 7, apologized Wednesday for the wording of a graphic that offended some viewers for its facetious allusion to suicide. Under a picture of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, the graphic over Giangreco\u2019s shoulder said: \u201cCut him or cut your wrists.\u201d It aired during the ABC-owned station\u2019s 10 p.m. newscast... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/17\/abc-7s-mark-giangreco-apologizes-for-cut-your-wrists-graphic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}