Quote (IceMage @ Jul 2 2018 03:41pm)

You just contradicted Goomshill's "journalists are never held accountable derp" talking point.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Jul 2 2018 03:01pm)

They weren't holding themselves accountable. There was push back and they caved. No morals involved

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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been told by President Donald Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign for the Oval Office, is leaving the network, along with Rhonda Schwartz, who served as the chief investigative producer for Ross’ team.

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Beleaguered chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross is leaving ABC News seven months after he botched an “exclusive” report on Donald Trump and Russia that sent the stock market tumbling.

News President James Goldston announced to staffers on Monday that Ross, and his longtime producer Rhonda Schwartz, have “decided to leave the company” in a memo that was obtained by Fox News.

"In their long careers here, Brian, Rhonda and their team have been recognized with nearly every prestigious award in our business – an impressive tally of four George Polk awards, four Peabody awards, four duPonts, five Murrows, 17 News and Documentary Emmys and the Harvard Goldsmith Prize, in 2014, for the single best investigative report in print or broadcast,” Goldston wrote.

The ABC News boss continued: “They’ve exposed government corruption at every level, international human rights abuses and fraud, uncovered dangerous working conditions, sexual abuse cover-ups and dishonest business practices. Their work has led repeatedly to real changes in policy in the U.S. and around the world. They broke numerous stories following 9/11 about the government investigation of the attacks, from the identification of the terrorists to secret CIA prisons. Over the years they have built a team of the best investigative journalists in our industry, and they leave behind an outstanding group that will continue to break stories for many years to come.”

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/02/brian-ross-out-at-abc-news-months-after-botched-report-donald-trump-russia-tanked-stock-market.html

Quote (IceMage @ 2 Jul 2018 15:41)

You just contradicted Goomshill's "journalists are never held accountable derp" talking point.

Quote (IceMage @ 2 Jul 2018 16:11)

Push back how? Trump and his cult scream fake news every day. ABC News didn't punish the guy because of you guys shrieking... they did it because he made a big mistake, and suspending him was the right move. He was suspended a day after the incident, lol.

Quote (excellence @ Jul 2 2018 03:18pm)

‘suspended’ aka free vacation (just defer his payment around working “extra” later so they can say he was suspended without pay) for blatantly spamming #fakenews, and being allowed to “resign” months later so he can likely lineup another high-paying #fakenews gig at another ‘news’ company =\= being held accountable

look at his last tweet “we are hardly leaving investigative journalism. there is still much more to do.”

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Quote (excellence @ Jul 2 2018 02:18pm)

‘suspended’ aka free vacation (just defer his payment around working “extra” later so they can say he was suspended without pay) for blatantly spamming #fakenews, and being allowed to “resign” months later so he can likely lineup another high-paying #fakenews gig at another ‘news’ company =\= being held accountable

look at his last tweet “we are hardly leaving investigative journalism. there is still much more to do.”

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Quote (thesnipa @ Jul 3 2018 09:29am)

accountability for journalists traditionally has been an apology and retraction, now adays people want your first born's pinky toe and a tar-n-feather show.

meanwhile Fox News ran "is Obama secretly a Muslim Kenyan sent to take over and ruin the US" panels for 8 years, with nothing but discredited birther tinfoil to go on.

give the guy a month's paid vacation, he's gonna be a meme when he gets back just like Brian Williams anyways...

Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Jul 3 2018 11:30am)

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