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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:09 PM Dec 2017

Brian Ross Suspended After False Michael Flynn Report, ABC Colleagues 'Furious'

The correspondent will be suspended for four weeks without pay.

LLOYD GROVE
12.02.17 7:56 PM ET

ABC News management has suspended chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross for four weeks without pay, effective immediately, for erroneously reporting on Friday morning that President Donald Trump—as a candidate during last year’s campaign—ordered retired general Mike Flynn to contact representatives of the Russian government.

The network announced Ross’s punishment in a public apology for his misreporting—which initially caused a firestorm, and a plunge in the stock market, because his scoop suggested that candidate Trump had been interfering in U.S. foreign policy weeks before President Barack Obama announced increased sanctions against the Russians, including the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats, for their government’s role in meddling in the American presidential election.

Ross, who broadcast the erroneous claim during an ABC News special report without subjecting his information to the network’s standard vetting procedures, is not expected to be covering Trump-related matters once he returns to work after his suspension runs its course. He was not quoted in ABC News’ official apology, and was unavailable for comment.

Sources at ABC News said Ross’s colleagues were furious at him as Trump partisans such as White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, former press secretary Sean Spicer, and Donald Trump Jr. heaped criticism on the network.

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Brian Ross Suspended After False Michael Flynn Report, ABC Colleagues 'Furious' (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP

Yup. That's not the kind of mistake you make when everything you say Ms. Toad Dec 2017 #1

This is a Trump attempt at deflection. Attacking the messenger. Not going to work. PubliusEnigma Dec 2017 #2

so true. I don't beilve it for a minute. Bonx Dec 2017 #6

Seems light. pintobean Dec 2017 #3

They report everything that orange piece of shit says which are absolute lies will ABC stop onecaliberal Dec 2017 #4

I'm not saying that ABC is correct... MontanaMama Dec 2017 #5

In the end, he'll be proven correct, of course. L. Coyote Dec 2017 #7

Compare to Brett Baier at FOX... Adenoid_Hynkel Dec 2017 #8

This story made the DOW drop 350 points. karadax Dec 2017 #9

imagine what the dow will do when Trump is indicted. PubliusEnigma Dec 2017 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Chemisse Dec 2017 #11

I smell a ratfucking wellst0nev0ter Dec 2017 #12

Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)

1. Yup. That's not the kind of mistake you make when everything you say

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:15 PM

Dec 2017

is labeled as fake news, whether it is or not.

A suspension without pay is an appropriate response - not that it will prevent Conway et al. from forever throwing out this example of actual fake news, and alleging the rest of the actual news is also fake.

PubliusEnigma

(1,583 posts)

2. This is a Trump attempt at deflection. Attacking the messenger. Not going to work.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:15 PM

Dec 2017

Bonx

(2,074 posts)

6. so true. I don't beilve it for a minute.

Reply to PubliusEnigma (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:30 PM

Dec 2017

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

3. Seems light.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:16 PM

Dec 2017

His credibility is destroyed, along with ABC's.

onecaliberal

(32,888 posts)

4. They report everything that orange piece of shit says which are absolute lies will ABC stop

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:20 PM

Dec 2017

Reporting that?

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)

5. I'm not saying that ABC is correct...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:30 PM

Dec 2017

at all...so don't jump my shit. That said, Brian Ross' report was a little bit different than anything else that I heard from any other media source on Friday morning. He was talking about Flynn's legal debt of a million or more dollars and that he'd put his house on the market to pay those bills...among other things such as the stock market plunging and that Flynn would in fact testify that Dotard instructed him to contact the Russians on behalf of the campaign. I bookmarked it to show my spouse because what he was saying was shocking.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

7. In the end, he'll be proven correct, of course.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:37 PM

Dec 2017

Who do people think was running that shit show, the covfefe boy?

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)

8. Compare to Brett Baier at FOX...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Dec 2, 2017, 09:43 PM

Dec 2017

Who lied on air, a week before the election, and said he'd been told a hillary indictment was coming "in days."

Eventually, FOX issued a half-assed, barely-covered retraction and Brett wasnt punished.

And the rest of the media ignored and gave them a pass.