anything regarding what happened yesterday. vester flanagan was employed by wdbj 7 as a reporter between march 2012 and february 2013. he applied for the position using the air name of bryce williams. as part of wdbj's standard policy and protocol for background checks, we received only positive references. flanagan's job performance and interaction with his coworkers led his manager to place flanagan on a succession of performance improvement plans. only slight improvement was noted each time. flanagan was placed on a final warning in december 2012 for failure to check facts in a news story and generally for poor news judgment. in january 2013, he accused one of the news photographers here of making trouble for him by questioning a decision to go on