Criticism of ABC News
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Over the years, the ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company, has come under fire for its coverage and for ethical lapses.
Perceived political bias
Individual American Conservatives and groups have criticized ABC News for percieved anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias in its news coverage.
The hiring of George Stephanopoulos, the former press spokesman for Democratic President Bill Clinton to run it's popular This Week program was evidence for some of an institutional bias.
Others have simply pointed to slanted news coverage that tended to criticize Republicans more than Democrats. However, defenders of ABC News argue that the network, like other American TV networks, largely accepted President George W. Bush's rationale for the Iraq War, and were very supportive of the early war effort.
Resignation of bogus consultant
Alexis Debat, a consultant of ABC News and also writer at The National Interest, resigned from ABC News in June 2007 after that the company discovered that he had faked his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne University [1]. Furthermore, in September 2007, the French news media Rue 89 revealed that Alexis Debat had made at least two bogus interviews, one of Barack Obama and another of Alan Greenspan, both published in the French magazine Politique internationale [2][3]. This in turn also led to his resignation from The National Interest [1]. Debat had specialized in reports on terrorism and national security for the past six years (writing for example on the Jundallah Balochi and Sunni organisation [4] and many other subjects)[1].
References
- ^ a b c Howard Kurtz, Consultant Probed in Bogus Interview, The Washington Post, September 13, 2007 en
- ^ Pascal Riché, Une fausse interview d'Obama dans Politique internationale, Rue 89, 5 September 2007 (French)
- ^ Pascal Riché, Après la fausse interview d'Obama, celle de Greenspan, Rue 89, September 13, 2007 (French)
- ^ Alexis Debat, Crackdown on the Secret War Against Iran, ABC News, April 13, 2007 en
