After a year-and-a-half of some of the most partisan reporting on President Donald Trump, ABC News fired veteran investigative journalist Brian Ross and his producer Rhonda Schwartz. Ross reported Dec. 1, 2017 that Trump instructed former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn to contact the Kremlin to get contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign. Turns out, Trump actually told Flynn to work on getting a meeting between Trump and Putin after taking the oath of office Jan. 20, 2017. “After more that two decades at ABC News, Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz have decided to leave the company,” ABC News President James Goldston told staffers yesterday. ABC continues with former President Bill Clinton’s press secretary George Stephanopoulos to host “This Week” to be one of the most anti-Trump news shows on TV.
Pressuring Ross and Scwartz to leave ABC News, the damage control strategy shows the world that it’s not biased against the president. “Over the years, they have built a team of the best investigative journalists in our industry, and they leave behind an outstanding group that will continue to break stories for many years to come,” said Goldstone. Goldstone’s the first network executive since CBS President Leslie Mooves to fire a key reporter. CBS fired “Nightly News” anchor and managing news director Dan Rather Nov. 24, 2004 for publishing false military service documents on former President George W. Bush. CBS New President Les Moonves found that Rather had colluded with the campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) through his Vietnam War buddy former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) , publishing forged documents of Bush’s Texas Air National Guard service.
Rather’s firing was the first high-profile incident of a presidential campaign infiltrating the newsroom of a major TV news network. While no one knew then what would happen in the future, it’s clear today that Democrat operatives have infiltrated all major cable and network news outlets. With last year’s Harvard study proving that cable and network news is 97% negative against Trump, political corruption of First Amendment-protected cable and network news networks is complete. Firing Ross is an hour-late-and-dollar-short of what to do with biased news stations, no longer reporting the news but advancing the political agenda of political parties. Democrats and their media allies have the single-minded focus of discrediting the Trump White House before the Midterm elections. Everything reported relates to what can be done hammer down Trump’s approval ratings, giving Democrats the best shot of taking over both Houses of Congress in the Midterm elections.
Ross’s report last December, accusing Trump of ordering Flynn during the 2016 campaign of contact Russia, mirrored ABC’s anti-Trump bias. While the network wants to show it’s doing the right thing, it’s really just a cover-up of Democrat infiltration by Stephanopoulos and others at ABC news. “After a great run of 24 years, we have decided to pack up and move on from ABC News, an organization that has meant so much to us,” said Ross and Schwartz. Ross and Schwartz are expected to jump ship to CNN or another anti-Trump news network, known for publishing anything-and-everything against Trump. Trump has called the U.S. news media the “enemy of the people,” for fake news. “While we are signing off from ABC News, we are hardly leaving investigative journalism.” There is much more to do,” said Ross, looking to jump to CNN or MSNBC, the only two cable news networks more biased against Trump than CBS or ABC.
Ross violated his journalists’ code of ethics to not inject personal bias into highly controversial news stories. When the press talks about the First Amendment, it’s a two-way street, requiring news organizations to stay out of politics. Truimp’s made a strong case against a corrupt news media, willing to say-and-do anything to advance political agendas. When Trump spoke to a South Carolina crowd June 25, he blasted the media for fake news. Tossed around too casually today to satisfy the media, “fake news” doesn’t help anyone, only harms the First Amendment. If the media had any balance toward Trump in reporting the news, Trump wouldn’t be calling out the cable and network coverage. When the media only reports negative news against Trump, it comes with a political agenda. ABC now joins the ranks of CNN and MSNBC, whose amt-Trump coverage can’t get much worse.
Firing Ross and Schwartz, ABC hopes to restore some of the lost credibility that comes from fake news reporting. Dan Rather led the way for journalists like Ross and Schwartz to fabricate stories against Trump to advance political agendas. When the Inspector General uncovered secret FBI emails from 48-year-old Peter Strzok and his 38 year-old attorney lover Lisa Page talking about their strategy to sabotage Trump’s campaign, the world saw first hand the kind of dirty tricks at the FBI. When you consider Ross was fired for cause, it’s no accident that most, if not all, newsrooms reflect political bias. Firing Ross but not Stephanopoulos for equally egregious bias seen in CNNA and MSNBC makes zero sense. What’s good for the goose should be good for the gander, firing anyone in the newsroom showing bias against Trump. Anything less, sends the wrong message.
