ABC hires who?
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
October 30, 2010 1:31pm CST
ABC has decided to go with none other than Andrew Breitbart for it's election night coverage. Andrew Breitbart a man who has made a live making edited video that destroyed innocent people's lives and created the very creepy James O'Keefe will be with ABC's David Muir and Facebook consumer marketing head Randi Zuckerberg in a town hall format during election night. If ABC wanted a conservative they should have hired a creditable one, not Andrew who has been discredited so many time that no one can take anything he says seriously.
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@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
31 Oct 10
Maybe they could get Goofy and Donald to hang out with him. It would really boost Goofy's self-esteem since this "reporter" seems a little dumber than Goofy.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
2 Nov 10
This is shocking to me because ABC seemed to always have so much integrity. If fact ABC news is my favorite news show. What were they thinking when they hired such a person. What a shame and disgrace for them to do this. I wonder what his co-workers are thinking and feeling at this time.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
5 Nov 10
Darn, I'd heard that and had intended to try to catch him for a minute or two just to see how much of an a$$ of himself. These days, being credible doesn't get anyone anywhere, it's the outrageous and sensational who get rich and famous. Any publicity, no matter how bad, is enough to get people like him hired by formerly respectable news agencies, I guess.
Annie
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
31 Oct 10
The era of impartial news coverage is gone and journalism is nothing but a name--there is no real journalism now. When I was studying it in high school we called what we now have "yellow journalism". What we have now is slanted and meant to influence, not inform.
I have not heard that Breitbart edited videos, but I haven't kept up with things like that lately. If that is true then ABC has just fallen lower, if that is possible, in my opinion. I no longer watch network news. I watch Fox, CNN and HLN then make up my mind what's true from all that input--because they are ALL slanted, just not as much as the "big 3" network news.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
1 Nov 10
I have to point out that all the major news shows published the very same clip without verifying the source or the context. Breitbart and others can't succeed if journalistic standards are adhered to. Unfortunately, there are no standards these days. And Sherrod's superiors were guilty of the same.
So whose fault is it? The "journalist" who published a partial video that someone sent him and he'd sat on for months or the others who also failed to have the basic standards of decency where a woman's job was concerned?
Breitbart was wrong not to look for the whole video but it was sent to him by someone months earlier and he didn't air it because he knew it was incomplete. He was set up but he fell for it and it's his fault.
