ABC News has morphed into MSABC
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TL;DR
- ABC News is accused of moving away from professional journalism towards activism and having conflicts of interest at the top.
- Dana Walden, head of ABC News, is noted for her close friendship and political donations to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
- Interviews conducted by Jonathan Karl with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani are described as lacking journalistic rigor and being overly favorable.
- A former correspondent, Terry Moran, alleges that ABC News downplayed a story about the COVID-19 lab leak theory at the behest of Anthony Fauci.
- The network is characterized as a 'liberal institution' with no ideological diversity, likened to a 'left-wing blog'.