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ABC News Executive Barbara Fedida Will Leave After Investigation
Variety ^ | Brian Steinberg

Posted on 07/21/2020 6:54:45 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

ABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms. Fedida did make some of the unacceptable racially insensitive comments attributed to her. It also substantiated that Ms. Fedida managed in a rough manner and, on occasion, used crass and inappropriate language,” Rice said. “Lastly, the investigation found no basis for the claims that Ms. Fedida was the subject of dozens of HR complaints and that ABC News spent millions of dollars in confidential settlements related to Ms. Fedida, as alleged in some press accounts.”

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Among the claims raised in the Huffington Post story was a remark made when Fedida was involved in negotiations with “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Robert’s contract. When Fedida and her colleagues were discussing how Roberts wanted more money as a part of her contract renewal, the report allegesd Fedida said it wasn’t as if ABC was asking the anchor to “pick cotton.” In another incident, Fedida reportedly asked attendees at a company lunch held following mass shooting incidents in the U.S. which ABC News employee would be most likely to be an active shooter.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abc; barbarafedida; fedida; peterrice; racism

1 posted on 07/21/2020 6:54:45 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Bye, Fedida!.....................


2 posted on 07/21/2020 6:56:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t cry for me Fedida...


3 posted on 07/21/2020 6:58:03 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hiya kids, hiya, hiya!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Ha ha.

[Unacceptable Racially Insensitive Comments Attributed To Her] == [URICATH]

4 posted on 07/21/2020 6:59:43 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Red Badger

Don’t get infront of the SJW steam roller, no matter whom you are unless you are a Clinton.


5 posted on 07/21/2020 7:02:22 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: yesthatjallen
“The investigation substantiated that Ms. Fedida did make some of the unacceptable racially insensitive comments attributed to her. It also substantiated that Ms. Fedida managed in a rough manner and, on occasion, used crass and inappropriate language,” Rice said. “Lastly, the investigation found no basis for the claims that Ms. Fedida was the subject of dozens of HR complaints..."

OK so was there ever corrective effort or are they cutting her loose because it finally escaped the ABC/Disney bubble?

6 posted on 07/21/2020 7:02:39 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: yesthatjallen
When Fedida and her colleagues were discussing how Roberts wanted more money as a part of her contract renewal, the report allegesd Fedida said it wasn’t as if ABC was asking the anchor to “pick cotton.”

And did anything come before this? Was she perhaps discussing hurtful allegations made by Robin or others that the amount Robin was getting was racist? In a fair world, context would be important. But since this is the "cancel culture" world that Fedida helped push at ABC News, hope she enjoys her cancelling. Bye, bye, fool!
7 posted on 07/21/2020 7:05:24 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: yesthatjallen

What did terrible racist thing did she say? All lives matter? Make America Great Again? Good job, Bevelyn Beatty?


8 posted on 07/21/2020 7:05:40 AM PDT by far sider
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

Aufedidarsehn!


9 posted on 07/21/2020 7:08:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Steely Tom
Unacceptable Racially Insensitive Comments Attributed To Her

George Carlin would have reduced this story to a sentence and defined her with just three syllables: "Racist B****", or a one syllable four letter word you (formerly) couldn't say on television. "Liberal" as a prefix would nail her down completely.

10 posted on 07/21/2020 7:09:00 AM PDT by katana
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To: yesthatjallen

“the report alleges Fedida said it wasn’t as if ABC was asking the anchor to “pick cotton.””

How is that racist? My mom picked cotton, along with my aunts and uncles when they were children. They are very white. This was a very common experience in the south and in Texas during the depression era.


11 posted on 07/21/2020 7:12:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: far sider

For Disney to dump a woke Jewish woman means she probably did a lot worse stuff than they are talking about.


12 posted on 07/21/2020 7:13:59 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DesertRhino

How is that racist? My mom picked cotton, along with my aunts and uncles when they were children. They are very white. This was a very common experience in the south and in Texas during the depression era.

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Historical accounts and inconvenient facts are easily ignored by the Left. Nothing gets in the way of their agenda pushing.


13 posted on 07/21/2020 7:16:30 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: yesthatjallen

How DARE anyone say anything “insensitive” or make a joke! This is Libmerica we live in now. Re-education camp isn’t good enough for this kind of behavior! This woman must be fired at once and spend the rest of her life cleaning toilets at the nearest CHOP rape / looting training camp!


14 posted on 07/21/2020 7:19:48 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Starboard

Is there a black market (oops... terrible choice of words there!) for watermelons now? Are grocery stores still allowed to sell those? What about fried chicken? How can KFC stay in business after all those decades of fried chicken jokes! I demand reparations! Half a fried chicken for every black person (or every person identifying as a black person). And I don’t mean just ANY half of a fried chicken, I mean breasts... and EXTRA CRISPY!! (sorry if any feminists or transgenders are offended by the word “breasts” because you know, they tend to be deficient in that department).

I suggest that anyone white can only buy chicken feet from now on - or, better yet, just starve - and starve gladly because, you know, George Floyd. Or slavery. Or just because.

(Of course, I am joking. I hate trying to think like a leftist in the morning).


15 posted on 07/21/2020 7:27:20 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: yesthatjallen
In a Barbara Fedida, baby
Whom, whom, whom whom whom whom
Whom, whom, whom

Ina Barbara Fedida, honey
Whom, whom, whom whom whom whom
Whom, whom, whom...



16 posted on 07/21/2020 7:54:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Na, sollten sein “Aufweidersuchen!”


17 posted on 07/21/2020 8:07:11 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: DesertRhino

This was a very common experience in the south and in Texas during the depression era.

Spot on people now days have no idea how hard times were then most of them today would die before they would do hard work.


18 posted on 07/21/2020 8:37:43 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not black enough?


19 posted on 07/21/2020 10:46:56 AM PDT by funfan
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