“No one wants to work with him” – Brian Ross won’t be allowed to cover Trump anymore at ABC News…

A new report by CNN reveals just how upset ABC News is at Brian Ross for screwing up their reputation the other day with his fake news reporting:

CNN MONEY – ABC News president James Goldston excoriated staff Monday over Brian Ross’ major error on a report about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and announced that Ross, the network’s chief investigative reporter, will no longer cover stories related to President Trump.

Goldston also told staffers that the network was conducting a “full review” of the error and its aftermath.

During ABC News’ morning editorial call Monday, audio of which was obtained by CNN, Goldston excoriated his staff for the error.

“I don’t think ever in my career have I felt more rage and disappointment and frustration that I felt through this weekend and through the last half of Friday,” Goldston said.

“I don’t even know how many times we’ve talked about this, how many times we have talked about the need to get it right,” he added. “That how we have to be right and not first. About how in this particular moment, with the stakes as high as these stakes are right now, we cannot afford to get it wrong.”

FAKE NEWS!

Goldston noted that ABC News “spent this weekend getting absolutely pilloried as a news division for reporting fake news.”

“250,000 tweets. One percent positive, 99 percent negative about this news division. Two tweets from the president,” he told staff.

Goldston also said, “If it isn’t obvious to everyone in this news division, we have taken a huge hit and we have made the job of every single person in this news division harder as a result. It’s much, much harder. We have people in Washington who are going to bear the brunt of this today and in the days forward. Very, very, very, very unfortunate. Really, really angry about it.”

Failure to correct…

The ABC News chief said that Ross reported information that was “just plain wrong,” and did so without anyone “having ever made a decision that we were going to go to air with that information.”

“The thing that compounded our mistake is that not only did we make a mistake, if we had then corrected ourselves right away, again — we wouldn’t be in this position. It would have been a very different story,” he said. “But we ended up in the impossible situation where we had actually conflicting information that we said on air, which conflicted with the information that was online. And then it took us seven hours, eight hours to get our story straight. This is not acceptable. It’s not acceptable. And we will all pay the price for a long time.”

Nobody wants to work with him…

Multiple ABC News employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the issue, told CNN there is widespread discussion about Ross’ credibility moving forward.

“No one wants to work with him,” said one ABC News employee.

“The future doesn’t seem bright for him,” added another.

I’m honestly surprised they haven’t fired him yet given they feel this strongly about it. Maybe they are waiting until his unpaid suspension is over? Either way, it doesn’t look good for him there.

I am glad however to see them feeling the effects of this so profoundly.


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