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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,373 posts) Thu Dec 19, 2024, 02:40 PM Thursday

Borowitz - ABC News Adopts Zero-Tolerance Policy for News

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Going forward, ABC News will have a “zero tolerance policy for news,” the CEO of parent company Disney said at an all-hands meeting on Thursday.

“In recent days, I’ve heard troubling reports of ABC News employees recklessly dabbling in news,” Bob Iger told the gathering at ABC’s Manhattan headquarters. “This ends now.”

Declaring ABC News “a news-free zone,” he said, “If you find yourself tempted to do news, I want you to ask yourself: is it worth risking your career?”

Iger’s anti-news policy, however, drew a harsh rebuke from Fox News Channel, who claimed that ABC was infringing on its brand.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/abc-news-adopts-zero-tolerance-policy

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Too true BoRaGard Thursday #1

I'd like to see Bob Iger asked Submariner Thursday #2

ABC News has always been flash and trash. LuckyLib Thursday #3

BoRaGard

(3,125 posts)

1. Too true

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2024, 02:53 PM

Thursday

This deserves a cross post to GD. So painfully true. And ABC is just the most obvious of our failed media corps and their value of profits over honest reportage.

Submariner

(12,710 posts)

2. I'd like to see Bob Iger asked

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2024, 02:56 PM

Thursday

what business does an supposedly non-partisan cartoon developer and amusement park owner, have in owning the broadcast of the supposedly truthful news I'm watching, and altering it to fit his partisan political views.

ABC should divest from cartoon Bob, and report the truth. This goes for all owners of network/cable news stations. Get the hell out of the news rooms.

LuckyLib

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3. ABC News has always been flash and trash.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2024, 03:03 PM

Thursday

I lived in three major metropolitan areas and they were always the “if it bleeds it leads” station. Peter Jennings was an aberration.

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