Interesting news is coming in from the liberal agency Huffington Post. They are reporting that staff in the newsroom of the ABC NEWS agency is upset with the corporate decision to hire conservative Andrew Breitbart as a consultant for their election night coverage of the November 2 election reporting.
Apparently Breitbrat's contract is limited to simple discussion panel type commentary during the election coverage at a "town hall" type event but the fact that an avowed conservative is on the air during their coverage is apparently enough to upset the staff . . . so says the Huffington Post.
Link => http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/abc-andrew-breitbart-election-night_n_776381.html
Apparently Breitbrat's contract is limited to simple discussion panel type commentary during the election coverage at a "town hall" type event but the fact that an avowed conservative is on the air during their coverage is apparently enough to upset the staff . . . so says the Huffington Post.
Link => http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/abc-andrew-breitbart-election-night_n_776381.html
**UPDATE 10/30/10*** Greg Sargent reports that ABC's newsroom us upset over the network's decision to tap Andrew Breitbart for election-night analysis:
It looks like lefty bloggers aren't the only ones irked by ABC News's decision to tap Andrew Breitbart for election-night analysis: People in ABC's newsroom were also caught completely off guard by the news, a newsroom source tells me.
"This blindsided a good portion of the team here," the source emails. "And not in a good way."
. . .
For his part, Breitbart seems to be enjoying the backlash that has quickly followed the news; writing on Twitter, he's taking on all comers. A typical Tweet: "You mean Left going to boycott ABC because I'm on election night panel? Proving my main point: Leftists are PC totalitarians. #juanwilliams"
It looks like lefty bloggers aren't the only ones irked by ABC News's decision to tap Andrew Breitbart for election-night analysis: People in ABC's newsroom were also caught completely off guard by the news, a newsroom source tells me.
"This blindsided a good portion of the team here," the source emails. "And not in a good way."
. . .
For his part, Breitbart seems to be enjoying the backlash that has quickly followed the news; writing on Twitter, he's taking on all comers. A typical Tweet: "You mean Left going to boycott ABC because I'm on election night panel? Proving my main point: Leftists are PC totalitarians. #juanwilliams"
