The good news is that ABC doesn't get away with this stuff anymore. Every time they are called out on the carpet, their credibility (whatever is left of it) takes another hit and less and less people trust the media. They are administering their own arsenic.
Just look at the advertising on the ABC Evening News and you'll know who watches the show and it's not the movers and shakers.
We haven't watched an alphabet network in 2 years. Tell me who the advertisers are on ABC, please?