Steven . sent a message to Gracia C. Martore – President and Chief Executive Officer of Tegna, Inc. – Email Address that said:
Dear Ms. Martore:
This afternoon I received an email from Sue Reimer, Group HR Director at Tegna(Im presuming she oversees KARE-TV in Minneapolis, MN), who sent me a "cease desist" email threatening me with police charges of harassment if I continued to email 2 employees at KARE-TV, or(in her words) "any employee of KARE or TEGNA Media at this time". She also, in the email, informed me that she had already, without even warning me ahead of time, "forwarded [my] correspondence to the local police"(her words).
I find these threats against my person, as a free American citizen exercising my 1st Amendment rights, ominously misanthropic, injurious, arbitrary and an abuse of her power for at least a few reasons, which I will list individually:
1. 3 weeks ago I had already apologized to the 2 KARE-TV employees in question about what I emailed to them prior to that, and I was thorough , even, remorseful(not to mention humble) in those apologies.
2. The "offended" KARE employees never, at any time, bothered to tell me themselves whether they were offended or felt harassed by anything I sent them, and they never told me themselves not to email them; in fact(with one exception(a friendly reply) early on) neither of the KARE-TV employees in question ever emailed or contacted me in any way at all.
3. Even after 2 apologies to both of the KARE-TV employees in question, those employees(and a few of their friends) took to their Twitter.com accounts to, by how I interpreted it, publically mock me via a barrage of tweets(twitter posts) on the afternoon of Saturday June 4th, 2016 that caused me, as someone suffering from PDD-NOS(an autism spectrum disorder) who was bullied in high school, great personal, psychological trauma and stress, and I felt threatened at the time, so I went to the TEGNA Facebook page and messaged them regarding what I strongly felt(and still feel) was public cyber bullying of myself.
4. Ms. Reimer, while referencing in her "cease and desist" email rude comments I made to one of the KARE-TV employees in question in my first email to that employee, overlooked the subsequent thorough heartfelt apologies I sent to both the KARE-TV employees in question after that due to perhaps either personal bias on her part(she used to work for KARE-TV) or perhaps a lack of information provided her by the KARE-TV employees in question who may have, for some reason, had it out(or have it out) for me due to something I said to one(or both) of them prior to the apologies.
All that said(and I so much appreciate if you have taken the time to read this) my concern to you, as President and CEO of TEGNA, is, does this, in my opinion, rash, arbitrary, aloof downright harsh action by Ms. Reimer best suit the interests of TEGNA INC. and its television media subsidiaries, or should there perhaps be sort type of addressing of Ms. Sue Reimers actions against me by someone above her in the corporate hierarchy of TEGNA INC.(perhaps even by you yourself) that is corrective(or punitive) by nature and with the intent of preserving the best interests of TEGNA INC. Thank you for the opportunity to reach you and for your time.
-Steve
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