taken off <\/a>the anchor desk and reassigned to full-time reporting duties.<\/p>\nAs I wrote at the time: \u201cIt would be unconscionably cruel to recount the multitude of mistakes Helms made during her brief tenure as anchor. She clearly lacked the performance skills, journalistic experience or knowledge of current events to handle the job.\u201d Sadly, she wasn\u2019t much better as a reporter \u2014 a fact her bosses had no choice but to concede.<\/p>\n
Helms\u2019 last day will be Wednesday, after which she\u2019s expected to return to Miami where she previously worked at Fox affiliate WSVN-TV. But considering her ordeal here, her TV news career may be behind her. Helms is telling friends she\u2019ll probably leave the business altogether and look for a job in public relations or marketing.<\/p>\n
Her agent at Los Angeles-based Ken Lindner Associates declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The question isn\u2019t why Alexa Helms is leaving after one year at WFLD-Channel 32. It\u2019s why the Fox-owned station\u2019s bosses hired her in the first place. Fox 32 general manager Dennis Welsh and news director Tom Doerr will have that and a lot of other boneheaded blunders to answer for someday. (I mean that figuratively... Continue reading →<\/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\/7840"}],"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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7852,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}