Chicago News Anchor Attacks Belief In Santa Claus
Chicago News anchor Robin Robinson pissed off a large segment of parents during a Fox Chicago news broadcast this week when she announced that Santa wasn’t real and then told parents to tell their children the truth.
An anchor with the network since 1987 Robin said during a short personal commentary:
Stop trying to convince your kids that Santa is Santa,” and “That’s why they have these high expectations. They know you can’t afford it, so what do they do? Just ask some man in a red suit. There is no Santa.”
After parents phoned and emailed the studio in an uproar the anchor appeared on Wednesday night discuss show The Talker and apologized for her actions. In her apology Robinson said:
“It was careless and callous to say…what I said, in what could’ve been mixed company,” Robinson said. “So many kids don’t get to be children, that for those who do get to live the wonder and magic of Christmas, I would never spoil it intentionally. So I sincerely apologize. We have certainly heard how you feel about my mistake, and since The Talker is about opinions: here we go.”
In her apology during a segment called “An Apology” she also read Facebook comments from mad parents and one of those comments summed up the anger felt towards her callous commentary:
“I think that Santa Claus is an important part of preserving children’s innocence.”
Here’s the video of the anchors original Santa Claus comment:
Do you think Robinson overstepped her bounds as a reporter by providing such obviously personal bias in her reporting?
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Dec 3, 2011
American Events has spent 29 years training Santa's helpers at our Santa School to be sure children have that wondrous childhood magic that we all still believe in! Shame on you! Reality is rampant enough!
Dec 4, 2011
Let children be children and keep their belief in Santa Claus. It does not last long. And, if the presents are not what they wanted or what could be afforded, it's easily explained. Population growth! Santa can only make and deliver so many presents. Whatever… If you tell children there is no Santa, then what? There is no Easter Bunny… no Tooth Fairy… no ghosts and goblins at Halloween… no Neverland. Don't bother then to take them to PG-rated movies that stimulate their imagination and nurture fantasy. Let children keep their innocence. I wonderabout the commentary by a self-righteous questionably intelligent anchorwoman might not speak volumes about her own childhood. Did she ever believe in Santa? And, whether she did or did not, why did she have to ruin it for the children of her viewing audience?
Dec 4, 2011
I am going to say it. Why are we lying to our kids and then tell them to tell the truth. And then when a child has a imagination and carries that when the grow up you tell them to get real. A lie is a lie. Let children keep their innocence, what is innocent about a lie. Learn the truth about what this season is really about (the earth and the change it is going through) and most people don't even know what they should be doing. Well the animals do.
Dec 4, 2011
Santa school how about earth awarness school so kids lear to respect the earth that they live on and not some false belife, man what a joke. What about all the kids that don't get gifts because they have been told a lie and are expecting a gift and when they don't get it the feel that they are not loved, that is not right for a child to feel that way at any time. Shame on America. In God we trust. Not this time of season they were not thinking about God on black Friday I bet you that.
Dec 4, 2011
Well how come every chile dosen't get gifts on christmas. I guest you will tell me some lie also.
Dec 4, 2011
Oh and reality is not rampant today. It is the lies that have been told us since children of what reality is, get a job buy a house and a car and get you self in debt and buy that gift you can't afford just because it is christmas. Tell them who Santa really is and what the raindeer ate in the forest and why Santy wears white with red dots, tell them about the pine tree and what this time of year is really about since you have a school about Santa (the sharman). Yes I am angry because for alot of people this is the worst time of the year for them so bad this time of year that people kill them selfs just because they feel left out or unloved this time of the year. Now that is the real deal. Help people all year around not just on one day. Teach them that.
Dec 4, 2011
Hey Kev, I totally agree. They were not thinking about God.
Dec 4, 2011
Where has our country gone to?
Dec 7, 2011
REAL Santas are a special breed that truly do care ALL year long. We volunteer and organize positive programd as individuals & as a group- for children & adults. We fed 180 starving children in Malawi in 2 days. It's about love and sharing that with people like you, Kevin. Magic & Miracles DO exist!