ABC News Suspends Brian Ross for 4 Weeks Without Pay: ‘Effective Immediately’

The Wrap ^

[Snickering Hound]

ABC News has announced that Brian Ross would be suspended for four weeks without pay “effective immediately.”

“It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience – these are our core principles. We fell far short of that yesterday,” the network said in a statement on Saturday. “Effective immediately, Brian Ross will be suspended for four weeks without pay.”

Ross came under considerable fire on Friday after he erroneously reported on live television that then-candidate Donald Trump had instructed Michael Flynn to make contact with the Russians.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Trying to get ahead of the Law Suits

It is all Fake News MSM!!!

Lies and more Lies since they do it all the time.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Ross didn’t make an error. He reported what he WANT to be true, what he NEEDED to be true deep down in his wizend, blackened soul.

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Absolutely.

If the mainstream started suspending its news readers for fake news, there would be nothing but dead air during all their news shows.

[The_Media_never_lie]

He tanked the market - too light of a punishment

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Probably thousands of people lost money because of this stunt. The network should be sued.

[doug from upland]

[CreviceTool]

I never - in the last 20 years - enter a public restroom stall without checking to see if Brian Ross is lurking around the toilet bowl.

[Reagan80]

Yep. Now the SEC needs to investigate whether any ABC Execs were shorting the market that day.

[Heff]

There’s been several odd stories tonight coming out of Fox, NY Post, etc who generally support Trump, and its getting an ominous tone to it.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/01/why-flynn-s-guilty-plea-is-bad-news-for-team-trump.html

https://nypost.com/2017/12/02/trump-transition-official-emailed-that-russia-has-just-thrown-the-usa-election-to-him/

[Squantos]

Yep ..... that bastard liar’s mouth cost me a few grand. Maybe a dead cat bounce on monday .... the market.

[lee martell]

The News Director, Assistant Editors and Programming Directors should also get their hands smacked with that same splintery wooden ruler.
He didn’t make that blunder all by himself, somebody helped him to make it happen.

[Carl Vehse]

Ross is now known as:

Lyin' Brian

[Rockitz]

"It is vital we get the story right and retain the trust we have built with our audience – these are our core principles."

PFFFFT! What a joke? What audience?

[BAW]

4 weeks suspension over Christmas. Whoop de doo.

[Personal Responsibility]

“Nowadays all you need is an IQ over 20 to be an ABC reporter. “

I think you mean “under 40”.

[windsorknot]

Oh, ABC
As sleazy as
One, two, three

[Dante3]

I agree. He should have been fired.

[MinuteGal]

I agree that Ross should have been fired.

However, I can live with the suspension because in the future anything inflamatory or provocative he reports on TV about Trump or the Trump administration will never be given credence again.

His suspension will be a gift to us that keeps giving and giving and giving.

Leni

[DAC21]

Frucker is done, he just doesn’t know he is dead yet.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I just remembered that Brian Ross was the one who got slapped by the pope years ago, for asking him about the child sex abuse cover-ups.

So he has one point in the good column for me. But yeah, that can’t outweigh what he willingly did.

[catnipman]

won’t matter. Ross’s original story was replicated by a bazillion other “news” outlets who won’t retract, and 99% of leftists will continue to believe Ross’s original false story is the truth.

[catnipman]

“You know...for only the 2nd time in my life, I may purposefully DVR The View on Monday...for no other reason than to see that nasty ugly hawg, Joyless Behar, eat her smarmy words.”

actually, i expect them to simply ignore ABC’s retraction and mea culpa, and just move on to their next attack on Trump and let their own false attack stand pat.