ABC News—once home to legendary media figures like Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, and polling guru Nate Silver—is gutting its newsroom.
Yesterday, Disney, ABC's parent company, laid off nearly 200 staffers, shuttered the iconic polling and data site FiveThirtyEight, and consolidated several flagship news programs.
At the very moment we need fearless, trustworthy journalism to expose Donald Trump’s corruption and chaos, yet another legacy media outlet just picked protecting profits over upholding journalism’s sacred mission to defend democracy.
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Disney's decision to shutter FiveThirtyEight and slash its news staff is driven purely by corporate calculations. The same can be said about Disney’s recent settlement of a dubious $15 million defamation lawsuit from Donald Trump over a single misstatement by George Stephanopoulos.
ABC News isn't just retreating from hard journalism—it's signaling that standing up for facts and truth isn't worth the financial risk.
This sends a chilling message across the media landscape: Why pick fights over journalistic integrity when it's easier—and more profitable—to retreat?
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