Weatherman melts down on live tv5/16/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Adame said he believed the protracted, monthslong nature of the photo leaks led Spectrum to a breaking point. ![]() Adame declined to address the specific content of the performances or the images taken without his knowledge. Adame apparently references his employer, but Mr. When asked what had changed between March and September to justify his firing, they referred a reporter to social media sites where images of Mr. Adame’s firing said the decision had been complicated, and that the company worked with him for several months to avoid this outcome. Two Spectrum employees familiar with the discussions that led to Mr. She added:“There is a real question if as a public figure, in a position of trust, do you have a responsibility to keep certain things unseen?” “There is a potential mental health element, there is a victimization element, and there’s the fact that there are things done in private and things done in public and he just misjudged the line between the two.” “This is not clearly a win for any one side at all,” she said. She said his termination underscored what a “blurry time” we live in, when the internet has broadened the reach of normal people’s speech. Patricia Sánchez Abril, a professor of business law at the University of Miami, said Mr. ![]() Broadcast companies usually require on-air employees to sign contracts that contain morals clauses, which give them the power to fire employees for a wide range of behavior, from arrests to offensive Tweets, that might harm the corporation’s public image. Adame’s case is also complicated by other factors, including his role as a television personality, an unusually public facing position. Adame also described his behavior as the manifestation of a mental health issue that drove him to perform for audiences of other men and engage in cybersex with anonymous people online for years, and then to seek psychiatric treatment.īut Mr. Adame and his supporters have argued he is a victim - both of a prudish employer and of revenge porn, a growing problem that has affected as many as 10 million Americans and that was outlawed in New York in 2019. Adame finds himself at the center of a debate over whether employers should be policing their workers’ legal off-the-clock activities online - particularly at a time when many people’s sex lives are increasingly led on the internet, and as Americans have become more open-minded about sex in general. Celebrities and politicians, including the actress and former candidate for New York governor, Cynthia Nixon, Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou and Councilman Erik Bottcher, rushed to Mr. But in the wake of his firing, which he made public in a post on Instagram, a wave of support for him emerged online. The person who sent the pictures appeared to be determined to shame or harm Mr. Last week, after the latest round of pictures arrived, NY1 fired Mr. Then the pictures arrived at his mother’s house. Adame, 39, to Spectrum NY1, the television station where he did the morning weather report. He said he had stopped the performances - which he had come to view as a compulsive need for risky sexual behavior - a month before.īut then, this spring, an unknown sender delivered emails and packages containing more nude pictures of Mr. The pictures first emerged on an internet message board at the beginning of this year, taken surreptitiously while Erick Adame, a well-known New York City meteorologist, was performing sex acts nude on an adult webcam site. ![]()
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