More Dominic Carter News [Greg Pollowitz]
NY1, the local network that employs Dominic Carter, is not happy with its star anchor:
NY1 anchor Dominic Carter violated "every principle of journalism" when he name-dropped his political allies and touted himself as a prominent journalist to strong-arm a Rockland County judge into tossing his domestic-violence case, his TV-station boss said yesterday.
"Clearly, that kind of behavior is . . . something we would not tolerate," said NY1 General Manager Steve Paulus.
Carter's brazen bigfooting came during a Dec. 11, 2008, hearing, where he was answering assault charges for allegedly punching, kicking and choking his wife, Marilyn, in their Pomona home two months earlier.
"My wife was profiled last month in Oprah Winfrey's magazine. I've appeared on the cover of The New York Times and TV Guide. This is not fair," Carter pleaded to Judge Arnold Etelson.
"I covered the state attorney general [Andrew Cuomo] and chief judge of the court of the state of New York."
That judge, "Judith Kaye is a personal friend," Carter whined. Manhattan DA "Bob Morgenthau is a personal friend of mine," Carter added.
Etelson snapped, "Don't start dropping names! You know better than that."
Carter also had argued: "I'm a political journalist . . . I will be at the inauguration next month. I travel constantly.
"My schedule does not permit for that. I didn't do anything wrong, so I shouldn't be mandated by the court to do anything."
11/02 06:20 PM
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