[ April 22, 2024 ]
ABC News journalist Brian Ross, whose outrageous and wrong report about former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn caused U.S. stocks to fall over 350 points, has been suspended without pay for four weeks. A four week suspension for so grievous an act a is a joke. This is as bad as Rathergate. This is the very definition of fake news.
Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Brian Ross – the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Despite their best efforts to fictionalize, manufacture, indict and declare guilty the duly elected President of the United States, they, one by one, are falling on their own sword in order to take down the king. The more they try to kill Trump, the more they kill themselves. How’s Megyn Kelly doing, BTW?
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The Flynn plea basically amounts to a process charge. It’s a nothingburger. But this? This is YUGE.
What the Flynn plea means …. here.
A four-week suspension for so grievous an act a is a joke. How could ABC not fire Ross over such gross ineptitude or malevolence? In either case, he’s not fit to intern for the Geller Report, let alone network news.
ABC News suspends Brian Ross over ‘serious error’ in Flynn report
ABC News announced Saturday that Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross had been suspended for four weeks without pay over a botched “exclusive” about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Ross’ suspension is effective immediately. ABC News spokeswoman Heather Riley would not comment on whether anyone else had been suspended in connection with the error.
.@ABC News statement on Michael Flynn report: https://t.co/sd9TeFiiLQ pic.twitter.com/UtHFHeuwcM
— ABC News (@ABC) December 2, 2017
During a live “special report” Friday morning, Ross reported that Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while Trump was still a candidate. The report raised the specter of Trump’s impeachment and sent the stock market plummeting.
My job is to hold people accountable and that's why I agree with being held accountable myself.
— Brian Ross Investigates (@BrianRoss) December 3, 2017
Later in the day, ABC News — part of the reliably liberal Disney ABC Television Network — issued a “clarification” to Ross’s report, saying that Trump’s alleged directive came after he’d been elected president. That’s a key distinction in any investigation of Russian actions during the campaign. Ross himself appeared on “World News Tonight” several hours after the initial report to clarify his error.
In a statement, ABC News said Ross’ report “had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.”
“It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience,” ABC’s statement added. “These are our core principles. We fell far short of that yesterday.”
Ross tweeted about his suspension late Saturday, saying, “My job is to hold people accountable and that’s why I agree with being held accountable myself.”
Trump himself tweeted, “Congratulations to @ABC News” for punishing Ross for what the president called “his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt.
Congratulations to @ABC News for suspending Brian Ross for his horrendously inaccurate and dishonest report on the Russia, Russia, Russia Witch Hunt. More Networks and “papers” should do the same with their Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 3, 2017
“More Networks and “papers” should do the same with their Fake News!” Trump added.
Friday’s fumble was another in a series of black marks for Ross, who has been at ABC News since 1994 after spending nearly two decades at NBC.
In 2001, Ross incorrectly reported that Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi dictatorship may have been responsible for anthrax attacks that terrorized the United States in the months after 9/11. Then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer tweeted Saturday that he “explicitly told ABC News not to go with the anthrax story because it was wrong”:
I explicitly told ABC News not to go with the anthrax story because it was wrong. Brian Ross went with it anyway – and one week later issued a murky, hard to understand correction. https://t.co/JKB5Wtepwq
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 2, 2017
“Brian Ross went with it anyway – and one week later issued a murky, hard to understand correction,” Fleischer added.
In 2006, Ross reported that then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert was a target of a federal corruption probe involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Despite the Justice Department’s denial, Ross insisted that Hastert was “very much in the mix” of the investigation. Hastert was never approached by prosecutors.
In 2010, Ross fronted a report called “Taking on Toyota,” which claimed that some of the Japanese automaker’s cars contained a defect that caused “unintended acceleration.” The report included footage of a tachometer shooting from 1,000 to 6,200 RPM in seconds while Ross sat behind the wheel. However, the same footage showed that the car Ross was sitting in was parked with the doors open at the time.
In a letter to ABC News at the time, Toyota complained that the work by a key expert Ross cited in his report was funded by “a paid advocate for trial lawyers involved in litigation against Toyota.” The carmaker added that the expert’s demonstrations were carried out “under conditions that are virtually impossible to occur in real-world conditions.”
Perhaps most infamously, Ross reported in 2012 that Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes may have had ties to the Tea Party movement.
“There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the tea party last year,” Ross reported on “Good Morning America.” “Now, we don’t know if this is the same Jim Holmes – but this is Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.”
Ross later apologized for the report, but received withering criticism — including being dubbed “America’s Wrongest Reporter” by the now-defunct Gawker website.
“When there’s breaking news, especially about terrorism and national security, ABC News’ Brian Ross is there,” John Cook wrote in a post on the gossip blog, before adding, “And under no circumstances should you listen to anything he says.”
Sources tell Fox News that ABC has cut the size of Ross’ team of producers and provided him with fewer on-air platforms for his reporting. An ABC insider said, however, that this had less to do with Ross’ errors than with ABC’s diminished interest in hard news and investigative reporting.
Reliably liberal ABC News has, however, continued its drumbeat of anti-Trump reporting, employing former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos as its principal anchor. ABC’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz was called out by then-President elect Trump for crying on air on election night (she denies this), and former President Obama attended her second of three weddings.
ABC’s beleaguered entertainment programming is also notoriously liberal, with the network recently shelling out an eye-popping $25 million to employ Clinton activist Katy Perry as a judge for a rebooted season of “American Idol”.
Meanwhile, Disney CEO Bob Iger is widely reported to have ambitions to run for the White House himself and plans to step down prior to the 2020 and could challenge Trump as the Democratic nominee.
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24 Comments
6 years ago
Left/Liberals suck. Dems/Bernie socialist utopian state has collapsed http://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
still they will continue the failed policies. Brain dead ?!
6 years ago
The bigger they are, the harder they fall! Dumb ass—Ross.
6 years ago
Reply to
CHARLES S
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Dumber
Dumbest
dumb dumb dee dumb, LIBTURDS !!
6 years ago
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6 years ago
Thanks, interesting story.
6 years ago
ABC = All Bloody Communists
6 years ago
ABC = All Bloody Communists
6 years ago
ABC means “Anything But Coverage”
6 years ago
He must be related to Brian Williams LOL! I can’t wait to see all the over 4,000 sealed indictments opened! DRAIN THE SWAMP!
6 years ago
ABC means “Anything But Coverage”
6 years ago
FBI and SEC need to investigate pronto !!
Stock markets were manipulated and tanked with this ‘fake’ news reporting -accident- ??
Or done on purpose to help investors betting against America ?!!
Like Soros.
6 years ago
MSM Lying , smearing is not surprising and ABC is only showboating and will take him back. So why is Flynn being prosecuted for Lying while Hillary/obama mafia kept lying ?
Flynn should have taken the 5 th Like Lois Lerner and other crooks in Dem party used to do when under investigation and get away.
Here’s news CNN style “Trump steals food from black kid”
and some great info too http://bit.ly/2wFirQA
Its Hilarious !
6 years ago
He should move out to Australia as he will fit right in: http://bit.ly/2zUac3v Milo Yiannopoulos has slammed some of Australia’s highest-paid journalists and says they are ‘too cowardly’ to interview a ‘gay guy with different opinions’.The right-wing firebrand claims a string of the country’s most popular television programs have cancelled interviews ahead of his Australian tour.’Waleed Aly, Karl Stefanovic and Jessica Rowe are too scared to interview me. That’s the only conclusion I can draw,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Monday.’These are some of the highest-paid, highest-profile and supposedly brave journalists in the country.’But they’re frightened of debating a gay guy with opinions that differ from theirs – in their own studios, on their own home turf. What’s going on?’He said Channel Ten’s The Project organised to interview him via satellite before the program told him they would prefer to have him in the studio when he arrived in Australia.After Yiannopoulos agreed to both interviews, he said the producers told him they were ‘too busy this week’ and cancelled.’Hang on a minute. I thought The Project was a current affairs show? How can they know they are too busy a week in advance?’ he questioned.He also claimed Studio 10 cancelled a follow up interview after his now famous exchange with Jessica Rowe.The Channel Ten presenter told Yiannopoulos she was a proud feminist before he responded: ‘I’m sure they’ll cure you soon, there’s chemotherapy for that.”The interview went viral, and the Studio 10 people said they would love to have me back in person when I arrived down under,’ Yiannopoulos said.’But guess what? Now they’re saying sorry, we can’t fit you in. And then there’s Channel 9’s Today show, which confirmed a live satellite interview with me on November 7.’At the last minute, they cancelled, saying they wanted their superstar $3m-a-year anchor Karl Stefanovic to interview me.’Naturally, I said fine. But… yes, you’ve guessed it.
My publicist was informed last Friday that Karl is away, so the interview won’t happen.’I’m not so cynical and
conspiratorial that I think Stefanovic has abruptly gone on vacation to avoid doing the interview, but it makes you
think.’Yiannopoulos said his experience showed two facts about Australia’s ‘politically-correct media’.’Firstly, that
Australia’s press is irretrievably left-wing, infested with bien pensant feminists and hand-wringers. In other words, your
media establishment doesn’t serve at least half the population, because it is biased,’ he said.’Secondly, your journalists and TV hosts are cowards. It’s amazing that Australia’s media is running scared of a harmless homosexual who happens to have some different ideas.’And it’s shameful, too. If I’m as much of a lightweight and a clown as they claim, they should be able to demonstrate so with a few minutes of live television.’He added: ‘I tell the truth, not caring who hates me. That terrifies media people, because they can’t win against me with their usual weapons, which are ridicule, snobbery, name-calling and fake allegations of racism and sexism.’Instead, they have to make arguments. And my experiences on Australian TV so far show that your hosts aren’t very good at that.’They know it, too, which is why they never invite me on twice. In some cases, I’m never allowed on at all.’
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
‘media establishment doesn’t serve at least half the population, because it is biased’
That is absolutely right, I am part of the ‘at least half’ of the population that is not served in any way, shape or form. I mostly don’t bother with Australian news and watch Fox News instead which is (for now at least) more watchable.
6 years ago
Lying to the FBI … ie … talking to the FBI.
If an FBI agent speaks to you in the course of an investigation, PLEAD THE FIFTH!
I’m not kidding. If you don’t assert your rights upfront you may lose the right – UNLESS you are actually guilty of the crime.
6 years ago
No, ross, your job is not to hold people accountable. We have people who are specifically trained to do just that. You are not trained to do much of anything, obviously. You and your cohort, muir, need to just report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Leave your moronic opinions, lies, and conjectures where you formulate them, in the toilet. Hope you enjoy your vacation. Too bad it’s not permanent. YET!!
6 years ago
The bigger they are, the harder they fall! Dumb ass—Ross.
6 years ago
GREAT TO SEE BUT TRUMP IS STILL GOING TO NEED ONE HELL OF A LOT OF SUPPORT !
WITH HIS ATTACK ON MAY IN THE UK MAYBE ISLAM CAN BE LOOKED AT & EVERYONE CAN SEE THE HORRIFIC ABUSE HANDED OUT TO THE UK CHILDREN BY THE UTTERLY -DELIGHTFUL MUSLIMS MEN IN GROUPS ALL OVER THE UK THAT THE POLICE REFUSED TO EVEN EXAMINE OR INVESTIGATE FOR 2 DECADES!
THIS IS WHY THE EDL WAS FORMED & TOMMY ROBINSON ARRIVED AS WELL AS ANNE MARIE WATERS !
6 years ago
When I became a cub reporter with a MSM Canadian newspaper many years ago, the first rule of journalism was to get both sides of a story, especially an important news item. Today’s media has supplanted that rule with a new maxim: find a leftist slant to a story and tell it from that viewpoint, even if it is a complete lie. It is small wonder newspapers are on the wane.
6 years ago
6 years ago
Anybody still getting their news from ABC, CBS, NBC, or any of the MS-whatever sisters, is dumb, dumber, and dumbest.
6 years ago
what’s worse is that this fake news affected the stock market, people lost money, but some (i bet soros among others) made out BIG time by shorting the market which dropped after this false info came out! there should be an investigation, lawsuit.
6 years ago
Another reason to ignore the lame stream media, smaller sites are more inclined to be impartial aw opposed to the established liars who now think they can make the news, rather than report it.
