{"id":2380832,"date":"2024-12-17T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-corporate-media-indignant-over-abc-payout-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T07:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:03:23","slug":"corrupt-corporate-media-indignant-over-abc-payout-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-corporate-media-indignant-over-abc-payout-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Corporate Media Indignant Over ABC Payout To Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcorrupt-corporate-media-indignant-over-abc-payout-to-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2380832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200c article discusses a defamation settlement reached between \u2062ABC News and President-elect\u200d Donald Trump, in which ABC agreed to \u200dpay $15 million to the foundation preparing for Trump&#8217;s presidential library. This settlement \u200dfollows accusations that ABC made\u200d false and damaging \u2064claims about \u2063Trump during the campaign. Critics \u200bfrom the left, such\u200b as\u2063 NPR&#8217;s\u200c Eric Deggans and reporter paul Farhi, express\u2063 concern that the settlement signifies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">mainstream media<\/a>\u2064 capitulating to Trump\u2062 and setting a troubling\u200c precedent in journalism. The piece argues that ABC and similar outlets do not \u200crepresent mainstream media, as they are increasingly\u2063 viewed as \u2062disconnected from most of \u2064America. It suggests that the \u2063ongoing criticism of \u200cTrump\u200d by these journalists overlooks the\u2063 implications of thier \u200cbiased reporting \u2063and ethical lapses in recent years.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Corrupt corporate media are losing their collective minds after ABC News and Clinton sycophant <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/16\/hegseth-nomination-battle-shows-republicans-an-easy-way-to-stop-losing-and-start-defeating-the-swamp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Stephanopoulos<\/a> agreed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-hating-abc-settles-defamation-case-with-15-million-payment-to-trump-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defamation settlement<\/a> with President-elect Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABC has agreed to write a hefty $15 million check to the foundation planning Trump&rsquo;s presidential library to pay for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/68351681\/58\/1\/trump-v-american-broadcasting-companies-inc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;regret&rdquo;<\/a> it is finally expressing over repeated false and damaging statements about the incoming president during the campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To leftist journos like NPR TV critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/243254424\/eric-deggans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eric Deggans<\/a>, ABC&rsquo;s concession &ldquo;feels like one more mainstream news organization bending the knee.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>First of all, ABC News and its corporate ilk are not &ldquo;mainstream media.&rdquo; If this election proved anything it&rsquo;s that the major networks and dying newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are absolutely out of touch with most of America and anything but mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Deggans and his self-righteous colleagues in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_media_today\/media_trump_resistance.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Resistance 2.0&rdquo;<\/a> that have served as apologists for an authoritarian regime for the past four years see all things tyrant in another Trump Administration. They also apparently believe that defaming your political enemy doesn&rsquo;t constitute defamation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leftist clique reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/farhip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Farhi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/farhip\/status\/1868058685253038229?s=46&amp;t=jkshR7dZcyY8QHBRQY67lw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lamented on X<\/a> that the payout represented &ldquo;an awful precedent and a huge sellout.&rdquo; Interesting phrasing from people who have been selling out journalistic ethics for years &mdash; Russian collusion, Hunter Biden laptop, the censorship state, Joe Biden isn&rsquo;t the cognition equivalent of KFC mashed potatoes and gravy, Kamala Harris is competent &hellip; you get the picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An awful precedent and a huge sellout: ABC will give $15 million to Trump&#8217;s presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jDbIEvR8Mx\">https:\/\/t.co\/jDbIEvR8Mx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Farhi (@farhip) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farhip\/status\/1868058685253038229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Poison of the Pravda Press <\/h2>\n<p>What they forget is that the settlement curiously arrived just as Georgie Porgie was about to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/16\/media\/george-stephanopoulos-trump-settlement-abc\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deposed<\/a> in a lawsuit in which Trump alleged that Stephanopoulos acted with &ldquo;actual malice or with a reckless disregard for the truth.&rdquo; Mischaracterizing a jury&rsquo;s verdict in writer E. Jean Carroll&rsquo;s politically driven civil case, a bogus, big-money leftist play to bankrupt the GOP&rsquo;s leading candidate for president, makes a great case for the malice claim. The broadcast network owned by Mickey, Goofy, and friends might well be leery about the prospect of internal communications regarding Stephanopoulos&rsquo; false statements going public.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Understandably so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The same news outlet that produced the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/11\/the-debate-was-so-biased-it-was-divorced-from-reality-trump-should-refuse-to-do-another\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-is-embracing-the-brat-label-should-the-gop-be-concerned\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Is Embracing the \u2018Brat\u2019 Label\u2026 Should the GOP Be Concerned?\">-sided presidential debate<\/a><\/a> that proved nothing more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/13\/abc-news-refuses-to-say-if-it-will-disclose-its-debate-as-in-kind-contribution-to-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long-form attack ad<\/a> against Trump surely has some skeletons they would prefer buried deep in the closet &mdash; somewhere between Geraldo Rivera&rsquo;s resume and David Muir&rsquo;s journalistic integrity.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising that Stephanopoulos, the hit man for the smear campaigns against the many reported victims of former President Bill Clinton&rsquo;s sexual misconduct, would accuse Trump of a crime he did not commit. It would be surprising if old George hasn&rsquo;t received an attaboy from LinkedIn founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/reid-hoffman-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reid Hoffman,<\/a> the leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/reid-hoffman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billionaire<\/a> who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anafaguy\/2023\/05\/10\/what-was-reid-hoffmans-role-in-funding-e-jean-carrolls-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> funded<\/a> Carroll&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/09\/e-jean-carrolls-original-claims-about-trump-were-absurd-but-that-didnt-stop-the-media-from-amplifying-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> alleging Trump raped her in a posh Manhattan department store dressing room sometime around the mid-1990s. Taking heat over his financing of the political prosecution, Hoffman audaciously claimed he was committed to &ldquo;protecting the rule of law.&rdquo; Of course he posted his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7055205462375366657\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">screed<\/a> on LinkedIn, guaranteeing that few people would read it without coverage from the accomplice media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some in that same media are now excoriating ABC News for settling&nbsp; &mdash; apparently because facts don&rsquo;t matter if you&rsquo;re a warrior in the self-righteous battle to stop Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is fitting that the settlement payment will go to the Trump library, where the 45th and 47th president of the United States will have the opportunity to set the lying, defaming, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j-d-vance-schools-bash-after-she-blames-him-for-bomb-threats\/\" title=\"J.D. Vance Schools Bash After She Blames Him For Bomb Threats\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-ted-cruz-plans-resolution-to-support-arms-sales-to-israel\/\" title=\"Sen. Ted Cruz Plans Resolution to Support Arms Sales to Israel\">corrupt corporate media<\/a>&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s record straight. A place that will include the obituary of an accomplice media that succumbed to the poison of its own arrogance and political deceit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News settles with Trump, paying $15 million for defamation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2380833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-16-at-12.51.19-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46944,43080,46943,33295,3634],"class_list":["post-2380832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abc-payout","tag-corporate-influence","tag-corrupt-corporate-media","tag-media-criticism","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-16-at-12.51.19-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380836,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380832\/revisions\/2380836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}