Easy as ABC

ABC News confirmed that it has suspended a journalist after he identified himself as a “socialist” in a video released by the right-wing undercover operation Project Veritas https://t.co/JJL1vX4DDc

— POLITICO (@politico) February 26, 2020

Let's say you are the head of a major mainstream television news division, and you have discovered that Project Veritas has uncovered your terrible secret: you have hired human beings within your company that have (GASP!) personal viewpoints when they are off the clock and sometimes even discuss them during what they believe to be a private conversation. Keep in mind: You are a major mainstream television news and they are Project Veritas. What do you do?

The actual answer is, you should laugh at Project fucking Veritas for pretending they've uncovered media bias, for the simple fact that this is not, actually, a test of your journalism but a stunt pulled by the dildo boat asshole and his friends who are, specifically, right wing activists. They aren't out there punking OANN for nonbiased journamalism. They are up the major networks' butts for fun and profit.

Ironically, the only game Wright gave away was explaining that he and others were kept on a leash to not challenge the Trump Administration strongly for fear of appearing biased, or admit when Trump got things right.

Wright and a man identified as producer Andy Fies also discuss a bevvy of complaints about broadcast news, many of which echo widespread gripes about the horserace nature of political journalism writ large.

They had especially harsh words for their employer about its coverage of President Donald Trump, who Wright at one point refers to as "this f--king president," complaining that Trump has put news outlets in "an awkward moment" where "we can’t figure out how to challenge him."

“We don’t hold him to account,” Wright says in the video, the subtitles for which indicate that he is referring to the president. “We also don’t give him credit for what things he does do.”

Fuck. There was the opportunity to seize on that and admit to just trying too hard to please everyone for the corporate brand, and welp--promise to just try harder to hold everyone properly accountable in future, thanks for the object lesson, assholes from Project Vertas. What we see from ABC is a big company backed by a bigger company, a giant, cringing before a flea.

ABC, what does your news division stand for, that it is harassed by a wholly partisan troll organization into determining your personnel decisions for you? That feels like giving away power to those who did nothing, not one thing, to deserve it. ABC wired a part of their credibility, like so many dollars to a con artist,to dumbass activist dorks.

And it looked so easy. Easy as ABC.