Posted on 03/31/2006 1:08:47 PM PST by KavMan
Friday, Mar 31 ABC Suspends John Green For One Month Good Morning America Weekend executive producer John Green has been suspended for one month after his personal e-mails were leaked to the Drudge Report and Page Six, TVNewser has learned. Phyllis McGrady made the announcement at GMA's morning meeting today.
A number of ABC News staffers are outraged that Green's personal messages have become a public embarrassment. Some have speculated that the messages were leaked by a disgruntled former employee...
Just suspended??? He should have been fired.
It's not a "personal message" when you send it out to dozens of people within an organization. Green made it public at that point.
What an idiot...what was in the emails????!!!!
I thought they were called "whistleblowers"? silly me
doesn't even say without pay ... probably getting a month-long vacation while memories fade, as measured by the latest ABC poll ;)
"If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke," Green complained.
Stop it.....leave the liberal alone.
ABC NEWS EXEC: 'BUSH MAKES ME SICK'; E-MAIL REVEALED
**Exclusive**
A top producer at ABC NEWS declared "Bush makes me sick" in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
John Green, currently executive producer of the weekend edition of GOOD MORNING AMERICA, unloaded on the president in an ABC company email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
"If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke," Green complained.
The blunt comments by Green, along with other emails obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, further reveal the inner workings of the nation's news outlets.
A friend of Green's at ABC says Green is mortified by the email. "John feels so badly about this email. He is a straight shooter and great producer who is always fair. That said, he deeply regrets the sentiment expressed in the email and the embarrassment it causes ABC News."
[UPDATE: Green sent email to ABC staff: "By now some of you have seen the DRUDGE REPORT featuring a private email I sent to a colleague in 2004. I want all of you to know how much I regret the embarrassment this story causes ABC. It was an inappropriate thing to say and I'm deeply sorry.']
We got a new boss here at my place of employment. The first topic of our first manager's meeting was a discussion about e-mail. She emphasized that we need to be very careful what we send in e-mails because no matter how private you think they are, they can come back and bite you later on. I usually count to twenty before I hit send when I'm writing an e-mail when I'm angry. It's a good habit to get into. Especially when you have a boss like my last one who would forward them to anyone.
teehee!
So criticizing the president in a private email should be a fireable offense? Perhaps a prison term would be in order as well.
Just wondering - did you ever criticize Clinton in a private email?
I have never heard of him.
FYI
Exactly. There is no expected privacy once you use a workplace e-mail server and cc several employees.
After the message was exposed on The Drudge Report, Green apologized to colleagues in an e-mail saying, "I want all of you to know how much I regret the embarrassment this story causes ABC. It was an inappropriate thing to say and I'm deeply sorry." more..... _________________________________________________________ A one month suspension?
If Clinton was in office and if Green was a right winger directing his remarks at Clinton, you can be sure he would have been fired.
This was a slap on the wrist.
*snicker*
Yeah, he only apologized to his co-workers and not the president, for which his e-mail is referenced to. This suspension is equally as lame.
They didn't suspend him because of the Bush e-mail.
He was suspended for his e-mail trashing Madeline Albright calling her a self-hating Jew and instructing his staff not to book her on his show.
Do you mean a private e-mail account or an account at work where the content isn't private because the employer owns the server? There's a big difference. Be careful what you put in e-mails at work. They're far from private and Green's wasn't.
Link?
Seems like ABC is more interested in finding out who leaked the 2 year old e-mail to Drudge. They can be disgruntled all they want, but the fact remains, this is a two year old story. If they had any integrity, he should have been fired 2 years ago.
even money his suspension coincides with a vacation...
The e-mail where he trashed Madeline Albright and her "Jew Shame" took place last year. And it was leaked to the NY Post.
A number of others are gleeful that the preening butt-head finally got what was coming to him.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03302006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm
THE LATEST 'SHAME' AT 'GMA'
March 30, 2006 -- "MEAN" John Green has struck again.
Now, Page Six has obtained another network e-mail Green wrote in which he argues that Bill Clinton's former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, should not be booked on "GMA" because, "Albright has Jew shame."
Green also says of Albright in the e-mail, "She hates us anyway because she says we promised her five minutes and only gave her two . . . I do not like her."
An ABC News source claims that Green has since "banned" Albright from the show. "This blanket ban was issued because of a personal bias," the source said. "He didn't like her and didn't want to deal with her."
This guy is a real winner...
Check out bigstring.com -- eraseable email. You give your email a shelf life. It will disappear from the recipients computer once its time is up.
Have never tried it but if it works as reported in the newspaper it would have saved this fellow a lot of anguish.
He's most likely a homosexual based on the pissy tone of his comments. I bet the leaker is a former boyfriend.
OK, and had it not been leaked, we wouldn't be posting in this thread.
Hope Bush makes him puke.
Does this mean the former employee is now gruntled? I always get sooooo confused on when to go from disgruntled to gruntled.
The story is not criticism of the President. It is the self-alleged "objectivity" of the news media.
Come on now! They ARE unbiased!...
How many of us have been a producer for a network that is trying to convince the world that they really aren't left wing psycho's?
Hubby's company has a new policy. No non business topics in Lotus Notes. NONE!!!
Huh, are you serious about his Albright email?
Good grief. I despise Albright and agree with the news director but his job is to write news, not get into personality attacks on the people in the news.
The two are brightly lit and President Bush's face cannot be seen it is in dark dark shadow.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. :)
Thanks.....been in and out most of the day. Dropping in on threads here and there and often in the middle!!!
Did you miss the part that he is a producer of a news program? He is suppose to be unbiased.
The suspension was not for criticizing the President, the suspension was for embarrassing the organization.
The media spends a lot of time and effort to convince the public they are not biased. This type of email messages does not help them.
Nice read for later.....
LOL! No problem, my pleasure. I've been dropping in and out of threads all day here too in between other things going on peripherally here.
If I hire you and you damage the credibility of my organisation and that credibility is the only thing that keeps my business afloat, you might start looking for other work. But that's just me.
I was gruntled once, but I took some Metamucil and that took care of it.
OOOOOHHHHHH peripherally.....big word. Just kidding, I am getting giddy and ready for the weekend to begin. Maybe a good drink would help!!! LOLOL........ooooohhhhhhhhh! It's been a long week.
Did he not do the *Trish Regan* then?
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