Media News - Thursday, August 30, 2012
Yahoo fires reporter after comment about Romney
Tensions between Republicans
and members of the news media continue: Yahoo! News fired its political
director Wednesday morning after he was heard in a video commenting that
Mitt and Ann Romney "are happy to have a party with black people
drowning'' – an apparent reference to Hurricane Isaac's damage
potential. David Chalian, the online news site's political director, made the
remark in a short video on YouTube that appeared to be a test of a
Yahoo!-ABC News online news program. The two news organizations have
partnered to provide live-streamed coverage of the two conventions.
A report in Politico says Yahoo! fired Chalian immediately and, in a
statement, said that his comment was "inappropriate" and that the news
organization had apologized to the Romney campaign.
Chalian was fired just three hours after Newsbusters, a conservative
media watchdog site, posted the video on its blog – and noted that the
Republican Party had canceled the first night of its convention in
deference to the approach of the storm. Chalian is a longtime political
journalist who has also worked for PBS NewsHour and as political
director for ABC News. (USA Today)
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