Judith Miller says avoiding a conflict of interest is Journalism 101 and that George Stephanopoulos knew better than to give to a foundation run by a candidate he has not only worked for, but also covers. She rips ABC News for letting him off the hook, suggesting if he were a Republican that he might even lose his job:
Well it turns out Judith Miller is correct. Geraldo penned this today on how he got fired by ABC News for the same thing:
In 1985, after fifteen great years, I was fired by ABC News. The official reason for my firing was a non-disclosed $200 donation to a family friend running in a non-partisan mayoral campaign in New Bedford Massachusetts.
The real reason I was fired was because I was estranged at the time from my boss Roone Arledge. I had complained publicly after Roone spiked a colleague’s 20/20 story about the Kennedy brothers’ relationship with Marilyn Monroe. The Kennedy story never ran, I alleged, because of Roone’s relationship with the Kennedy family.
The point is ABC treated my undisclosed $200 donation harshly because the network wanted me out for that unrelated reason.
2015Now ABC is bending over backward to minimize and forgive George Stephanopoulos’ $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation because he is central to the network’s recent success.
There’s always more to the story and in this case ABC News is forgiving Stephanopoulos because he’s not only their talented news anchor, but a liberal news anchor.
(h/t: Mediaite)