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Start1945-06-15
A corporate controlled media outlet

Not to be confused with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Lisa Howard

ABC fired Lisa Howard because she "continued to try and obtain a negotiated agreement between Fidel Castro and Lyndon B. Johnson", stating that she had "chosen to participate publicly in partisan political activity contrary to long established ABC news policy."[1]

Reporting

September 11, 2001

Full article: Rated 4/5 9-11

ABC News reported on the Dancing Israelis, Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Schmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. They also reported briefly on the George Washington Bridge plot. A 2006 article asked Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?[2]

Epstein affair

Full article: Epstein affair

ABC sat on the story of Jeffrey Epstein for years.[3]

 

A Quote by ABC News

PageQuoteDateSource
Manuel Noriega“He was a pawn in an international game that was way bigger than him and he certainly paid dearly," said Barbara Trent, a filmmaker who directed "The Panama Deception," a 1992 documentary about the U.S. invasion.

"He was a small-time player catapulted to international fame by the U.S. government and the media to drum up support for a ruthless invasion," Trent added. Working with the CIA Noriega ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989. Before and during that time, he worked with multiple U.S. intelligence agencies who agreed to ignore allegations that he was a drug trafficker in exchange for a staunch anti-communist ally in Central America during the height of the Cold War. Noriega was paid handsomely for his help, about $10,000 per month at one point, according to John Dinges, author of "Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms (1990)."

"The relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon was quite intense in the early '80s," Dinges told ABC News. "He was considered an important asset, and everyone in the documents I've read spoke very highly of him. He was trusted to the extent that you trust someone who is a paid intelligence asset.”
2017ABC News

 

Related Quotation

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Jimmy Carter“Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. (...) (American media organisations), have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved”Jimmy Carter2004

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Chris CuomoNews Anchor19992013
Joseph HarschCommentator19671971
Peter JenningsNews Anchor19832005Attended 1995 Bilderberg
James Gordon MeekJournalist201327 April 2022Resigned abruptly after FBI raid on his home. Charged with transportation of child pornography.
Ian PannellSenior Foreign CorrespondentJune 2017
Jake TapperSenior White House Correspondent5 November 2008December 2012
Jake TapperJournalist20032008
Amy WalterPolitical DirectorJuly 201030 July 2021Attended the 2017 Bilderberg meeting
Barbara WaltersCo-anchor on the ABC newsmagazine 20/2019792004
Jeff ZelenyWashington correspondent2013March 2015
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