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"The Barbara Walters News Center"

^Where did you hear or read about Barbara Walters being a major stockholder of the Walt Disney Company and the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)?
 
Years ago Barbara Walters was a real journalist who interviewed world leaders and asked tough questions. The last 15 years or so she only has done fluff or asked silly questions of celebrities like"what is your favorite color". No one takes her seriously anymore, and if they do, they shouldn't.
 
I don't believe in silly questions, FRR. Questions like "what is your favorite color" may not sound or seem important to you, but it may be important to reporters or interviewers pursuing substantial and relevant information.
 
Has she ever worked in or from the network's New York newsroom? Unlikely, but they name it after her. Naming the studio were they do "The View" after her would make sense - like CBS naming the "Price Is Right" studio after Bob Barker. But not the newsroom with which she had little or no connection. Just shows how tone-deaf management can be. This will probably create some resentment among the real worker bees in that newsroom.
So, now ABC News is fronted by a former "America's Junior Miss" who worked for Nixon and a campaign shill who worked for Clinton, with a newsroom named after a nightclub owner's daughter who did celebrity puff interviews and a talk show for chicks.
 
Stevens said:
Seems you've forgotten the 1976-1978 ABC Evening News fiasco of Walters co-anchoring with Harry Reasoner.
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Was the even the same newsroom in the same building?

Whatever (dubious) credentials she might have had 40 years ago, she forfeited by giving a platform to right-wing Barbie vaccine deniers. Poetic justice would be for Babwa to get measles or chicken pox.

And if that doesn't kill any claim to news credentials, sleeping with sources did.
 
^Even though I disagree with the idea of chicken pox or measles being "poetic justice", I would like to inform you that Barbara Walters had chicken pox fairly recently during the previous calendar year (2013).
 
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TheBigA said:
Having one affair with one Senator isn't "sleeping with sources."
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Sen Edward Brooke
Sec of State Henry Kissinger
Fed Chair Alan Greenspan
McCarthy aide Roy Cohn ...

How many affairs to you need?
 
FredLeonard said:
Sen Edward Brooke
Sec of State Henry Kissinger
Fed Chair Alan Greenspan
McCarthy aide Roy Cohn ...

How many affairs to you need?
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None of them were real news sources for her. Andrea Mitchell is now MARRIED to Greenspan. Does that disqualify her from being a news person?

If you're looking for reasons to dislike someone, there are lots of reasons. But saying she "slept with sources" is an overstatement.
 
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TheBigA said:
None of them were real news sources for her. Andrea Mitchell is now MARRIED to Greenspan. Does that disqualify her from being a news person?
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Yes. Send Andrea back to Philly. Have you ever seen Greenspan? He looks like Abe Vigoda. No way is he scoring with either of them unless they have an agenda.

NPR, in particular, has an especially incestuous relationship between news staff and Beltway insiders. Anybody "dating" a potential news source should be transferred or fired. It's a credibility issue and appearance is everything.
 
Personal opinions should not factor in hiring and firing decisions. An employer could get sued for such a decision.

The fact is neither of them have an agenda. The man is a charming and articulate conversationalist. I've met him. I don't buy wine for the bottle. You can make up whatever fiction you want, but Walters was just dating him. Not sleeping with a source.
 
TheBigA said:
Personal opinions should not factor in hiring and firing decisions. An employer could get sued for such a decision.

The fact is neither of them have an agenda. The man is a charming and articulate conversationalist. I've met him. I don't buy wine for the bottle. You can make up whatever fiction you want, but Walters was just dating him. Not sleeping with a source.
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And you know this how? Her motives for consorting with the guy and which base old Al got to?

Personal opinions are very much a factor in hiring and firing - and in the case of "journalists," anything that compromises even the appearance if impartiality should be a factor.
 
FredLeonard said:
And you know this how? Her motives for consorting with the guy and which base old Al got to?
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It's irrelevant because he was not a news source for her. There are two parts to "sleeping with sources."

Maria Shriver was married to the Governor of California. But she didn't report on anything related to that.

Just because it appears to you that her impartiality was compromised doesn't mean her employers felt that way.
 
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