it would happen to somebody spewing hate against barack obama. roseanne tweeted i will examine all my options carefully and get back to you. does she have a shot at a comeback here? short answer no. and she has been all over the map spinning out on twitter apologizing or being defiant, depends on when she is on ambien or not. abc rather than letting this play out for a week and watch advertisers bail and have to cancel the show acted quickly because it was an unforgivable racial slur against valerie jarrett. i liked the show but abc didn t have any choice given the egregious nature of that tweet. rick: i m sure you ll talk about this and many other things on sunday. you have a lot of stuff on your plate. thank you. sandra: the president
rated, they had picked it up for a second season, and apparently the folks at disney, the folks at abc didn t care about that so much as they care about some of the things you just mentioned. what do you think the message is for other folks that tweet things that are offensive, but that still very much have a megaphone of voice in our society, what s the tick away with the speed of which roseanne was taken off of abc? the speed will show a lack of tolerance that people will be able to be main stream figures that are able to get high ratings and use that to offset theirffset
it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. them is free. is free, honey. one of the reasons that roots was so incredibly popular is not because abc had so much faith in it, but because abc didn t. earlier miniseries were broadcast in weekly installments. and the abc executives determined that if roots were to fail, they could just be done with it in seven or eight nights. it was high risk, high reward. if it didn t work, you were out a lot of tv time and not many people watching. the television premiere on eight consecutive nights attracted the largest audience in the history of the medium. there s something about it that seems to touch all human beings. it transcends age and race. entertainment was meeting humanity. i think that s the primary value is to lead humanity forward. if there s a legacy of
point of view of the africans. it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. them is free. is free, honey. one of the reasons that roots was so incredibly popular is not because abc had so much faith in it, but because abc didn t. earlier miniseries were broadcast in weekly installments. and the abc executives determined that if roots were to fail, they could just be done with it in seven or eight nights. it was high risk, high reward. if it didn t work, you were out a lot of tv time and not many people watching. the television premiere on eight consecutive nights attracted the largest audience in the history of the media. there s something about it that seems to touch all human beings. it transcends age and race. entertainment was meeting humanity. i think that s the primary value
reporting and discussing president trump s controversial immigration comments. but you know how much time they spent covering walmart s tax cut bonuses and minimum wage hike? around five minutes. get this, media watchdog brentd fazell says abc didn t mention walmart once. brett, good to see you. is this a little bias, not to mention such a significant major story? a big part of the news cycle yesterday. put it in perspective, during the obama years and going back before that, you have had the left led by the national media doing thousands of stories about the need to increase the minimum wage. as they have talked about that, they ve pointed the finger direct lib at walmart. walmart s response all along the way has been that you didn t have the numbers, that would allow it. just didn t allow it. what happened, with the trump