I don't think Brian Ross is going to have a job much longer

[cali]

I suspect he'll take retirement within the week. He's nearly 64 and this was way too big a fuck up for him to stay on.

[ejpoeta]

1. who is brian ross?

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. and what did he do?

[Suich]

4. Here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/20/abc-news-brian-ross-apologize-for-report-suggesting-shooting-suspect-tied-to/

[cali]

5. Investigative reporter for ABC who implicated

the wrong guy for the Aurora shootings, naming a guy who's a tea party member with the same name.

Aurora Theatre shootings unfounded assertions

On July 20, 2012, a gunman named James Holmes, 24, went into a theatre having a midnight showing of the new movie The Dark Knight Rises and killed 12 people and injuring dozens. Ross, an employee of ABC News, suggested on-air a connection between a James Holmes, a member of a Colorado Tea Party group, and the shooting without any confirmed evidence. Several media outlets[27][28] called Ross out on his statement, with RealClearPolitics calling for his firing[29]. ABC later retracted the report and apologized.[30] The James Holmes that Ross reported on is a 52-year-old former law enforcement officer and member of a Hispanic Tea Party group. He said in an interview with Breitbart.com that he had to disconnect his phone because he was worried about his family due to the false report.[31]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ross_%28journalist%29#Aurora_Theatre_shootings_unfounded_assertions

[ejpoeta]

11. wow! that sucks! not surprising frankly with the way 'journalists'

these days do business. and i do not mean to denigrate all journalists.... that is why i used quotation marks.

[boxman15]

2. I hope so.

He epitomized what is wrong with journalism today, especially broadcast journalism. No integrity. No fact-checking. No responsibility. As long as your first and able to cause controversy, it's all good.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. +1 ...

Like the OP from the other day indicated ... "Getting it right is expensive; getting there first is cheap."

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Yep; but one has to wonder why ...

In the heat of a story, all of today's "journalist" gamble with making an unsupported claim ... hoping they're right and get there first; thus making them uber-lournalists.

[hlthe2b]

7. Isn't his first major screw-up, though for the life of me I can't remember the big one few yrs. back

Anyone remember? It was a doozy.

[eShirl]

12. Take your pick:

3 Controversy

3.1 False Iraq-US anthrax scare reports
3.2 Howard Dean State Trooper Exposé
3.3 Exposé on Toyota
3.4 Bachmann presidential campaign incident
3.5 Aurora Theatre shootings unfounded assertions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ross_%28journalist%29#Controversy

[arcane1]

13. This?

In a broadcast entitled "Expert: Electronic Design Flaw Linked to Runaway Toyotas" which aired the night before a Congressional Panel began investigating the issue of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, Ross claimed that the problem was caused by a defect in the electronic system. Toyota pointed out that the expert used by Ross was paid by the defense attorneys, and the video footage by Ross showing a tachometer shooting from 1,000 to 6,200 RPM was staged because the vehicle was actually sitting in a parking lot with the transmission firmly in Park. Toyota has demanded a public retraction and formal apology from Ross and ABC News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ross_%28journalist%29

[Submariner]

15. Fired from NBC Dateline for the exploding Chevy pickup gas tank story (hoax) n/t

[bbinacan]

8. He should retire

He was way out of bounds on this.

[Kalidurga]

10. How hard would it have been to compare ages?

Seems like that was pretty easy since many other news orgs did it and called ABC on it.

[bluestateguy]

14. He did a lazy investigation of the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey

And then said there were no noteworthy names on her client list. A few days later, David Vitter's phone number was found on the list.

Don't expect me to come to his defense.

[razorman]

16. I agree. As much as I disdain the Tea Party, I do not believe that they woud

ever support what this guy did, even if it turned out that he once attended a T.P. rally or something. I hope that commentators on their side will have the same courtesy to avoid blaming OWS or other progressives, if it turns out that he has some sort of tie there. Let's wait until the facts are in. Regardless of his political affiliation (if any), I think this was probably a case of a lone, mentally-disturbed person going on a rampage. God help the victims and their families.

[KharmaTrain]

17. Remember the DC Madam Scandal???

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/04/30/brian-ross-and-the-dc-madam-scandal

Ross has long been a corporate media stenographer that made himself the story with either false or misleading information.

As was the case with Chicken Noodle Nuze all but sure the SCOTUS would repeal the AHCA the corporate media hates a void...needs a narrative and will jump the gun to create one.

[AngryOldDem]

18. Screw retirement. He needs to be straight-up fired.

Sadly, I doubt anyone else in the broadcast news profession will learn anything from this, though.