WNBC’s Sue Simmons is everything we want in a local news anchor: Personable, but not too friendly. Wise, but not condescending. Tastefully dressed, but not too frumpy.

And she drops the F-bomb on air. During one of those annoying promo spots that TV stations insist on airing before returning from, or entering into, a commercial break, Simmons ends the spot by asking, “What the fuck are you doing?” Yes, she’s already apologized for it, and she probably won’t lose her job over it, because thankfully her on-air misstep did not include a racial, sexist, or homophobic slur.

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