ABC News apologizes to Crenshaw Christian Center founder for misleading video

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Four years after airing a misleading video segment about Crenshaw Christian Center founder Dr. Frederick K.C. Price, ABC News has issued a public apology.

In a story called "Enough!" that aired on ABC's "20/20" and "Good Morning America" in March 2007, ABC News and then-correspondent John Stossel investigated whether ministers of several large congregations had used donations to support lavish lifestyles. The segment featured a 10-second video clip taken from a previously televised sermon that showed Price saying: "I live in a 25-room mansion, I have my own $6-million yacht, I have my own private jet and I have my own helicopter and I have seven luxury automobiles."

In reality, Price did not own any of those things: He was preaching about a hypothetical person who was rich but spiritually unsatisfied. "Friends, to me that's bad success," Price added during the sermon, though that part was cut from the ABC News segment.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/04/abc-news-appologizes-to-crenshaw-christian-center-founder-for-misleading-video.html

[JuniperLea]

1. That's pure tabloid action...

Stossel proves himself the major jerk once more and again.

[Pendrench]

2. I agree...I wasn't surprised when I saw that John Stossel was behind this story. n/t

[meegbear]

4. And now he's on Fox ...

no surprise there.

[kenfrequed]

5. Stossel doesn't give a damn about the truth

He manufactures his segments with little regard to what actually is going on. That isn't interesting. To him the real bucks are in helping the powerful and kicking on the weak. I was running at the gym and saw some bit on Fox that attacked American Indians as somehow being leeches on society demonstrating his complete and total ignorance of history, treaty law, and the definition of a reservation.

[Blue Owl]

3. They'll get the bronze at this year's O'Keefe Awards

n/t

[Ian David]

6. John Stossel lying? Give me a break! n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

7. In the UK, the minister could sue for damages and win. ABC got off easy.

[trud]

9. why can't he sue in the U.S.?

It's certainly defamation.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

14. I think we have a first admendment right to defame others in America.

There certainly doesn't seem to be any penalties for knowingly spreading false information about people.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. In the UK, the minister could sue for damages and win. ABC got off easy.

IN fact, if the segment was shown in the UK, the minister could go to Great Britain and sue there. Maybe he should.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Stossel is a complete Republicon propaganda tool...no honor, no cred

The blowdry Republicon Stossel is so full of shit...

[trud]

11. here's some info about a lawsuit

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1536073.html

This was apparently an intermediate lawsuit. Seems possible there was a later one. Can't find any info about a financial penalty.

However there is fault on both sides: ABC News lied, and Price is rolling in dough, just not exactly matching the clip.

[jonthebru]

12. John Stossel sucked then,

John Stossel sucks now.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

13. I knew it was Stossel by the time they said ABC News.

He's where he belongs now.

[jerseyjack]

15. Two Charlatans. Which to root for?