Posted on 07/20/2012 12:54:16 PM PDT by South40
Three hours after reporter Brian Ross attempted to connect a mass killing in Colorado to the Tea Party, ABC News admitted that the story on Good Morning America was "incorrect." The retraction was added to the top of an existing online article about the murders.
The story conceded, "An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect." [Update: Ross has now admitted his error on live ABC coverage.]
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The problem is, only 1% of those who heard the original allegation by the maggots at abc actually heard the “correction”.
ABC = All Biased Bigoted Coverage
Here is a Brian Ross, who is part of the Kiss Army...
I found through use of the interwebs:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/brian.ross.754
This MAY be the same Brian Ross who works for ABC News.
Unsourced journalism - so easy, a caveman can do it.
Unring that bell, you lying crooks.
The “Smear” was made as the East Coast were preparing to go to work, (the swing states of Ohio and Florida). The appology comes mid afternoon when nobody see’s it.
Guess it’s better than no appology at all.
I hope that individual sues them for slander.
“I hope that individual sues them for slander. “
My guess is that the legal department made ABC apolgize for that very reason. Otherwise ABC would have let it go.
How about blaming Quentin Tarintino? Didn’t he make a movie about murdering people in a movie theater?
This has the potential for a class-action slander suit on behalf of Tea Party members everywhere. It demonstrates a wanton and wilful disregard for the truth resulting in a damaged perception of the Tea Party organization. If I published an article saying that a thousand people stricken with diarrhea ate ABC Animal Crackers without even cursorily checking whether they had or if they had, whether there was any causal link, I would be guilty of libeling ABC Animal Crackers.
I wouldn't call killin' Nat-zis murder.
This has the potential for a class-action slander suit on behalf of Tea Party members everywhere. It demonstrates a wanton and wilful disregard for the truth resulting in a damaged perception of the Tea Party organization. If I published an article saying that a thousand people stricken with diarrhea ate ABC Animal Crackers without even cursorily checking whether they had or if they had, whether there was any causal link, I would be guilty of libeling ABC Animal Crackers.
“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-taking business, we’re in the killin’ Nat-zi business...and cousin’...business is a-boomin’”
Nothing could more clearly illustrate the biased mental template of our “defenders of the truth” in the media. Their first instinct is to blame everything bad on the evil “right wing.”
Don’t think it takes a genius to realize James and Holmes and even the combo James Holmes might not be a rare name in the United States. Of course, they knew exactly what they were doing.
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