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Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down after tumultuous run
CNN ^ | 5/5/24 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 05/06/2024 2:03:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Kim Godwin, the embattled president of ABC News, abruptly announced Sunday evening that she will exit the network, capping a tumultuous three-year run at the outlet after staffers said her polarizing leadership led to plummeting employee morale.

I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin told staffers in a memo that rocked the ABC News newsroom.

“I have been fortunate and blessed enough to have done almost every job there is in this business,” Godwin added. “But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important for me and my family.”

Godwin’s sudden exit came after CNN reported earlier this week that Debra OConnell, the Disney (DIS) veteran who was tapped in February to oversee ABC News as part of her portfolio, was conducting a review of her performance and had voiced dissatisfaction in private conversations with the state of affairs at the network.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abc; dei; disney; gowokegobroke
The continuing saga of the downfall of Disney

According to Kim Godwin, the reason she was given the heave ho


1 posted on 05/06/2024 2:03:40 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Why she got the job too.


2 posted on 05/06/2024 2:05:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Impala64ssa

You left the “i” out of “ruin” in the headline.


3 posted on 05/06/2024 2:08:17 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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4 posted on 05/06/2024 2:18:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Impala64ssa

She was a blatant “diversity” hire ...


5 posted on 05/06/2024 2:20:51 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Impala64ssa
Chocolate bars melt in the heat.

6 posted on 05/06/2024 2:29:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

The network is still basically sound and despite some setbacks lately and some criticism there will be a soft landing like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGlCH-tGHQ0


7 posted on 05/06/2024 2:31:00 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Steely Tom

Yes it’s why the Tokens-R-Us store never closes.


8 posted on 05/06/2024 2:34:38 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Impala64ssa

It should be noted, other reports say Godwin said ABC News “overreacted to calls for diversity,” (translated as ‘too many blacks on the air.’), to which I agree, but does not make her a diversity hire, but opposed to diversity hires, even if she herself may have been.

She also said “blacks don’t watch.”

Methinks its a race war ongoing at ABC News.


9 posted on 05/06/2024 2:35:50 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: Impala64ssa

all i can say is the more internal strife, plummeting morale, layoffs, polarization, bad management, profound errors, chaos and damage to ANY of the big three virulently anti-Trump Democrat propaganda TV news networks, the better!

otherwise i could care less about their peccadillos ...


10 posted on 05/06/2024 2:44:49 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: Impala64ssa

I’ve never heard of her and I haven’t watched ABC news programs for several decades...


11 posted on 05/06/2024 2:45:03 PM PDT by EVO X ( )
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I’ve never heard of her and I haven’t watched ABC news programs for several decades...

Yup, same here. I wonder who does ?

12 posted on 05/06/2024 3:09:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: NorthMountain

So an alleged diversity hire (Not all black people in position of power are tokens, a lot earn their status) who tried to gut DEI in the newsroom is the bad person? She went against the narrative and tried to promote reason as well as attempting to expand market share rationally in a company full of executives and Board members pushing clown world. She deserves props not castigation.


13 posted on 05/06/2024 3:20:16 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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To: Impala64ssa

Another one for the Who’s Who of “Didn’t Earn It”, eh?


14 posted on 05/06/2024 3:33:16 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: NorthMountain

We will miss her terribly. What’s her name again?


15 posted on 05/06/2024 3:37:41 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Impala64ssa

No, you were hired because you’re black. You were fired because you’re incompetent.


16 posted on 05/06/2024 3:54:38 PM PDT by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: Impala64ssa

another woke hire bites the dust


17 posted on 05/06/2024 4:06:50 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Steely Tom
“I have been fortunate and blessed enough to have done almost every job there is in this business,” Godwin added. “But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important for me and my family.”

Translation into normal speak is, "I really screwed up and they fired my ass."

18 posted on 05/06/2024 7:21:36 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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