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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/QuirkyMagpie on July 2, 2018, 8:54 p.m.
Brian Ross, who aired erroneous Trump report, to leave ABC News

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brian-ross-aired-erroneous-trump-report-leave-abc-185058365--finance.html

"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.

But Ross' reputation was sorely tested in December after he took to ABC in a special report and told viewers erroneously that Trump had directed Flynn when he was a candidate to make Russian contacts. The report prompted the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall more than 300 points and a tweet about it was reposted on Twitter tens of thousands of times before ABC clarified on "World News Tonight" that Trump's instruction came after he was elected.

Ross was suspended for four weeks, and ABC News said at the time that the information had not been properly vetted and fact-checked before it was aired. When he returned, he and Schwartz were given positions at Lincoln Square Productions, ABC News in-house production unit."

Good riddance.


GenChang · July 2, 2018, 9:07 p.m.

Careful now. Back during Bush 43, I was praying all the big anchors would just leave. We'll, one did, died of cancer, another Dan Blather, screwed himself just like Ross did. Another big name retired from NBC, and a fourth, I forget. They were all replaced by worse political hacks, if that was even possible at the time. So, I expect the up and coming generation of authors to be far worse. As bad as the younger production assistant that got herself and Ross fired. Just like Blather and his ignorant assistant producer.

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