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[Dadsdream]

ABC's Amy Robach

Yet another female reporter from yet another network has accidently joined MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to call out her own company for years of spiking stories about Jeffery Epstein providing teenage sex partners for rich and powerful men.

ABC News Amy Robach was caught in an open mic video moment which has been published by Project Veratis' James O'Keefe, a self-proclaimed "guerrilla journalist" whose past efforts have drawn heavy criticism.

“I’ve had the story for three years… we would not put it on the air,” Robach said on the hot mic. “It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything.”

Fox News contacted Robach, and she confirmed the video was genuine.

“As a journalist, as the Epstein story continued to unfold last summer, I was caught in a private moment of frustration. I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with [Epstein accuser] Virginia Roberts didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations,” Robach said in a statement provided to Fox News

“We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, who’s Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story," Robach said on the video recording. "Then, the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story.”

“I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it’s all coming out and it’s like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it,” Robach said. “I’m so pissed right now.”

ABC News' Amy Robach caught on hot mic saying network spiked Jeffrey Epstein bombshell

ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught on a hot mic admitting that her network spiked a story that would have exposed disgraced money man and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein three years ago.

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Since Robach chose to provide a statement to Fox News, it's a sole source, not a news provider of choice for this piece.

 

[Dadsdream]

Just correcting an obvious falsehood, not a comment on what’s better or worse.

Cut me some slack, V-Chip! There's a difference between something being a falsehood and something being a mis-recollection.

So let's clear this up.

Rachel Maddow
- An anchor for MSNBC
- Speaking on an MSNBC show
- Said the Matt Lauer and Epstein cases are "gut-wrenching"
- Called out NBC for quashing the Epstein story
- Said NBCUniversal issued a statement that no confidentiality or non-disparagement agreement signed by a now-former NBC employee could legally prevent them from discussing sexual harassment

My sincere apologies for somehow, inexplicably mixing up NBC vs MSNBC vs NBCUniversal.

These days, we need a scorecard to keep track of which broadcast/cable company belongs to what company!

Maddow Calls Out NBC, Network Releases Employees From Confidentiality Agreements

“It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside the building around this issue.”

www.vulture.com

 

[Lazybones]

Cut me some slack, V-Chip! There's a difference between something being a falsehood and something being a mis-recollection.

So let's clear this up.

Rachel Maddow
- An anchor for MSNBC
- Speaking on an MSNBC show
- Said the Matt Lauer and Epstein cases are "gut-wrenching"
- Called out NBC for quashing the Epstein story
- Said NBCUniversal issued a statement that no confidentiality or non-disparagement agreement signed by a now-former NBC employee could legally prevent them from discussing sexual harassment

My sincere apologies for somehow, inexplicably mixing up NBC vs MSNBC vs NBCUniversal.

These days, we need a scorecard to keep track of which broadcast/cable company belongs to what company!

Maddow Calls Out NBC, Network Releases Employees From Confidentiality Agreements

“It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside the building around this issue.”

www.vulture.com

they diversify so they can claim that only part of their company is crooked. Just look to the CNN thread For verification.

Statement-
CNN, as exposed by project Veritas, slants their news to the left.

Retort- What part of cnn?

 

[wardorican]

they diversify so they can claim that only part of their company is crooked. Just look to the CNN thread For verification.

Statement-
CNN, as exposed by project Veritas, slants their news to the left.

Retort- What part of cnn?

That's a grossly inaccurate way to summarize the nuance of that topic.

 

[V Chip]

Cut me some slack, V-Chip! There's a difference between something being a falsehood and something being a mis-recollection.

I changed it to obvious error. As detailed as your posts get, I was surprised you got one that easy wrong.

 

[V Chip]

they diversify so they can claim that only part of their company is crooked. Just look to the CNN thread For verification.

Statement-
CNN, as exposed by project Veritas, slants their news to the left.

Retort- What part of cnn?

Funny. People have been defending FOX for years and years and years for the differences between news, opinion, Fox Business, Fox Corp... as far back as when Jon Stewart was still on the air people insisted the news portion of the Fox News Channel has to be treated differently than the non-news shows and even more different than the opinion/commentary anchored shows on the same channel.

But yeah, it’s CNN who is trying to hide which “part” is crooked.

 

[Lazybones]

That's a grossly inaccurate way to summarize the nuance of that topic.

You are right, but i didn’t want to make it about the article posted to show the lack of bias by .com that turned out to be biased less than 12 well written sentences into the article.

 

[Lazybones]

Funny. People have been defending FOX for years and years and years for the differences between news, opinion, Fox Business, Fox Corp... as far back as when Jon Stewart was still on the air people insisted the news portion of the Fox News Channel has to be treated differently than the non-news shows and even more different than the opinion/commentary anchored shows on the same channel.

But yeah, it’s CNN who is trying to hide which “part” is crooked.

1. You never heard that from me

2. Fox is a major network that is slanted right

3. CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, NYT(I will just stick with the 3 lettered ones) are major networks that are slanted left

4. Talk about false equivalency

 

[V Chip]

1. You never heard that from me

2. Fox is a major network that is slanted right

3. CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, NYT(I will just stick with the 3 lettered ones) are major networks that are slanted left

4. Talk about false equivalency

You're right. False equivalency in comparing Fox and any of those. Fox isn't "slanted right" -- it's solidly right. MSNBC is the Fox equivalent. Of your list, CNN would be the closest, but the rest are nowhere near as equivalently biased as Fox.

 

[Dadsdream]

Is anybody in favor of sending Prince Andrew to jail for statutory rape?

Yes, actually, there is somebody. She's going to appear on the (get this) 60 Minutes Australia Special Investigation this weekend, talking about Prince Andrew's . . . uh . . . er . . . anatomy?

"Oh, the chubby fingers! I know!" she said.

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[Lazybones]

You're right. False equivalency in comparing Fox and any of those. Fox isn't "slanted right" -- it's solidly right. MSNBC is the Fox equivalent. Of your list, CNN would be the closest, but the rest are nowhere near as equivalently biased as Fox.

iI will grant you that. The difference is that Fox is pretty open about it. The others try to paint themselves as unbiased. I think the latter is much more dangerous and unethical.

 

[Ayo]

iI will grant you that. The difference is that Fox is pretty open about it. The others try to paint themselves as unbiased. I think the latter is much more dangerous and unethical.

Fair and Balanced.
We Report. You Decide.
Most Watched. Most Trusted.
Real News. Real Honest Opinion.

I mean, the history of their slogans and mottos seems to complicate the implied forthrightness.

 

[V Chip]

iI will grant you that. The difference is that Fox is pretty open about it.

Again, I'll disagree on this as for years Fox news -- and its viewers -- insisted they were Fair and Balanced -- it was their slogan until June 2017. Fox employees pushed back at the idea they were biased over and over again. I don't think they were ever very open about it, even today.

 

[Lazybones]

Fair and Balanced.
We Report. You Decide.
Most Watched. Most Trusted.
Real News. Real Honest Opinion.

I mean, the history of their slogans and mottos seems to complicate the implied forthrightness.

shall we pull the tag lines for the others as well?

 

[Lazybones]

Again, I'll disagree on this as for years Fox news -- and its viewers -- insisted they were Fair and Balanced -- it was their slogan until June 2017. Fox employees pushed back at the idea they were biased over and over again. I don't think they were ever very open about it, even today.

the fair and balanced (at least the way I understand it) is to be fair and to the right and balance the left leaning mainstream media. Limbaugh has been saying this forever.

 

[Ayo]

shall we pull the tag lines for the others as well?

absolutely.

Go for it.

EDIT: I'll even start... I don't really buy that Anderson Cooper is all that interested in "Keeping 'em honest." I have also said that I despise CNN for their sensationalist approach to "news" coverage - which, for me, reached a nadir during the Flight 370 coverage. You'll find no defender of them in me.

Attach a point and have at it. My point, in this case, is that I don’t think FOX is that forthright in their partisanship. I don’t think they are blatantly painting their bias.

 

[Beach Friends]

absolutely.

Go for it.

Attach a point and have at it. My point, in this case, is that I don’t think FOX is that forthright in their partisanship. I don’t think they are blatantly painting their bias.

And what about the others?
Do you have the same criticism of them?

 

[V Chip]

the fair and balanced (at least the way I understand it) is to be fair and to the right and balance the left leaning mainstream media. Limbaugh has been saying this forever.

Ailes used to say something like they were the only balanced/fair organization because they had both Republicans and Democrats on.

 

[JimEverett]

absolutely.

Go for it.

EDIT: I'll even start... I don't really buy that Anderson Cooper is all that interested in "Keeping 'em honest." I have also said that I despise CNN for their sensationalist approach to "news" coverage - which, for me, reached a nadir during the Flight 370 coverage. You'll find no defender of them in me.

Attach a point and have at it. My point, in this case, is that I don’t think FOX is that forthright in their partisanship. I don’t think they are blatantly painting their bias.

I agree.
In fact, it is fair to say that quibbling over who is less biased/open/etc when it comes to the cable "news" arena is unproductive. The whole medium has reduced political discourse to advocacy. Most shows resemble something like two or more lawyers arguing for their clients.
It has also produced this attitude amongst a great many people that they need to have an opinion on every freaking thing and that their opinion is of monumental importance.