ABC News reeling after anti-Trump 'practice' headline creates humiliating error; was hostile staffer to blame?
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ABC News allowed a wildly malicious, false graphic to make it on air and the network hasn’t explained who is responsible.
ABC News did not immediately respond when asked a series of questions, including whether or not the culprit will be disciplined and how many staffers could have prevented the error.
“They really don’t have much to do except not to make those kinds of mistakes,” an ABC employee said of the special events producers. The employee also pointed to ABC News’ phalanx of vice presidents “who are all suddenly not accountable. What do they do all day?"
Media critic and DePauw University professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox News that he cautions his students about doing anything in the newsroom, or any other place, that could cause anyone to question either their seriousness or fairness.
“This recent problem at ABC suggests both of these issues could be operative,” McCall said. “ABC has apologized for this problem, but what they really need to explain is how the culture in the newsroom would allow for such a stunt to happen in the first place.”
“ABC has apologized for this problem, but what they really need to explain is how the culture in the newsroom would allow for such a stunt to happen in the first place.”
McCall said the gaffe “represents poor judgment by one wayward chyron writer” but thinks ABC News leadership is to blame.
“It also suggests that the climate in the ABC News production room allows for such nonsense to happen. Clearly, newsrooms should never be creating fake content in the first place, or have an atmosphere in which even low level staffers are suggesting their biases,” McCall said.
It’s the latest embarrassment for ABC News, which has been dogged by accusations of anti-Trump bias and errors in recent months.
ABC correspondent Brian Ross famously crashed the financial markets with an inaccurate report about the special counsel looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Earlier this year, “The View” co-host Joy Behar was slammed for making offensive comments about Vice President Pence’s Christian faith.
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They must not want to fire the person. If they say who did it and don't fire them after the Barr incident they will expose themselves for the hypocritical partisan hacks they really are. What else could the excuse be?
Honest journalism is the only thing dead.
Hope Manafort sues them.
This continued childishness contributes to the massive amount of Americans that feel they can no longer count on the MSM for real, true, unadulterated news without some type of bias, be it editorial or some faceless union key puncher......when the networks finally get serious about reporting the real news, they will have an uphill climb to regain their credibility.
ABC should've used the FOX tactic and not even addressed the story.