[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

He and his producer didn't get fired, well not entirely, for the Flynn thing.

sure he got fired.

There are many ways to get rid of an employee... one method is to reduce their level of operations to a janitor type... knowing he will leave.

Originally Posted by from WikiPee...Ross past

Controversies

In October 2001, Ross twice linked Iraq to the anthrax attacks in the United States. These reports, based on anonymous "high level" sources, were denied by the administration. In November 2001, Ross updated the story, acknowledging that original reports of bentonite in the anthrax samples were incorrect.

On January 14, 2004, a report by Ross, Chris Vlasto, and Rhonda Schwartz on the eve of the Iowa caucus linked presidential candidate Howard Dean to a trooper who worked for him when he was Vermont’s governor and who had “‘engaged in acts of domestic violence’”. ABC News was criticized in the Columbia Journalism Review for the report, because the report presented no evidence to show that Dean was aware of the abuse when he wrote a character reference for the employee in a custody dispute, and because there was evidence to suggest that Dean was unaware of the abuse at that time.

In 2006, Ross went on air with a "big scoop" about an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to Bin Laden. The Pakistani government said the story was "fictitious." ABC ended up retracting the story.

During coverage of the 2012 Aurora shooting, Ross suggested on the air a connection between a member of a Colorado Tea Party group and the shooting, based on the gunman's name, without any confirmed evidence. Describing Ross as one of the most controversial reporters in television journalism, Dylan Byers reported that Ross had come "under attack again" for his reporting. Ross and ABC News President Ben Sherwood apologized for the comment.

On December 2, 2017, Ross was given a four-week suspension without pay after erroneously stating during a special report that Michael Flynn was preparing to testify that Donald Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials during his presidential campaign. Ross issued a clarification on World News Tonight later in the day, explaining that Flynn had not been told to make contact with Russian officials until after the election, and that Trump had only asked Flynn and other advisors to "find ways to repair relations with Russia and other world hot spots" during his campaign. The incorrect report was criticized by conservative commentators, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 350 points after the report.

"Brian Ross" and "news" should never be used in the same sentence