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NBC News' Alison Morris On Her Kobe Bryant Flap: "The Whole Thing Was So Bad"

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On Jan. 26, when discussing Kobe Bryant's tragic death on MSNBC, network personality Alison Morris "stuttered on air" and combined the words "Knicks" and "Lakers," leading some spectators to believe that she had used the n-word.

Morris, a correspondent for the NBC News streaming service NBC News Now, took to Twitter to quickly respond to the backlash, saying, "Please know I did not & would NEVER use a racist term.

I apologize for the confusion this caused." Still, more than 100,000 people signed an online petition demanding that the network fire Morris, and the fact-checking service Politifact was forced to clarify that she was not actually fired.

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