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Any press is good press. Recalling a couple Barry Judge exit reviews

You have to have a thick skin when you are a news reporter/anchor. But getting this kind of review, after being fired from your tv job, has got to burn. [this article is from the Palm Beach Post March 1, 1989]

Barry Judge worked at WTHR/Indianapolis, WPTV West Palm Beach, Fl., CNN, KDFW/Dallas, KIRO 7 news in 1991, KING 5 in 1993, and then on to KXLY/Spokane in 1995. Judge was dismissed from KXLY in short order. Mark Wright stepped in to replace Judge. Wright later came to Seattle and worked at KCPQ 13 and KING 5. Seems Judge behaved as well at KXLY as he did at WPTV.
[This article is from the Spokane Spokeman Review November 24, 1996]

Footage from KOMO 4 and KING 5 coverage was used in the 1992 movie, Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster. Kathi Goertzen and Barry Judge are featured. THAT is the last trace of info found online about Barry Judge. If anyone has more information, feel free to let us know and provide a source, please.
Is there a pattern here and when did this troubled behavior begin? Dipping back to look at Judge’s time in Indianapolis, I ran across this story from the Indianapolis News (October 13, 1983):

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October 28, 2024 at QZVX

Truth Talker says:

He’s probably or was probably a staunch conservative or libertarian with opposing views about anything and everything the liberals wouldn’t be able to tolerate or control. I bet they teamed up against him and slandered him, making it seem like he was the bad guy, villainizing him to point of forcing him out of the business. He was probably a really nice guy, he just didn’t fit in with the rest of the staff. I’ll bet they set up a bunch of social traps and poked and prodded him until he reacted and then they all played the victim role. Management viewed him as the odd guy out and let him go to satisfy the liberal sheep.

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- October 29, 2024 at QZVX
  
  Gary says:
  
  I sort of agree with this being a possibility. We don’t know what his side of the story is. There might be a reason for these departures that hasn’t been reported or talked about. Looks like a pattern but there may have been a series of bad chemistry in those environments. Those places were probably a haven for narcissists, he may or may not have been one himself, either way it would be good to hear his side of all of it.
  
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  - October 29, 2024 at QZVX
    
    Lou Robbins says:
    
    I think we have heard all we will from Barry Judge–in his own words in these articles.
    
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- October 28, 2024 at QZVX
  
  Lou Robbins says:
  
  That sort of behavior sounds childish and something one might experience in middle school.
  
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October 28, 2024 at QZVX

T.K. says:

He was at WITI and WISN in Milwaukee as well. I think he may have shared the anchor desk with Dan Lewis for a time when he was there.

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- October 28, 2024 at QZVX
  
  Lou Robbins says:
  
  100%. This is from the Indiana Gazette, August 1976
  
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  - October 29, 2024 at QZVX
    
    T.K. says:
    
    Here he is in ’78 at WISN: https://youtu.be/ACM8BJO6GpQ
    
    And on the herpes beat in Indianapolis for November sweeps: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-news/158083833/
    
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      The Assignment Desk: Hmmm. A Herpes story sounds like a snooze fest. Who should I send? Who would we love to associate with a dreaded disease, just for the humiliation?
      
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