ABC/ Nicholas Fondacaro
The stunning victory of Donald Trump has establishment media desperately reassessing their “abandon all principles to elect Democrats” strategy.
It’s a start.
ABC News, which tried to rig the presidential debate it hosted by fact-checking Trump while letting Kamala Harris repeatedly slide, is in panic mode post Nov. 5.
Top brass are trying to bring in more conservative voices — and action item No. 1 is to balance out the lefty insanity spouted by hosts on its popular daytime show “The View.”
These include Whoopi Goldberg blaming inflation on grocery store owners, whom she called “pigs,” and woke racist Sunny Hostin telling people to cut off loved ones if they voted for Trump and blaming “uneducated white women” for his victory.
And that’s just in the past couple of weeks.
Yes, the show features token righties Alyssah Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro now, but they’re reliably anti-Trump.
So it’s good news that execs at the network are trying to even things out.
Trouble is . . . “The View” is not the problem.
Sure, it’s annoying when C-listers form a coup-friendly coffee klatch.
Yes, they’re oblivious elitists: Witness Goldberg’s recent moaning about having to work for a living.
(ABC must have stocked the wrong kind of dressing-room snacks. Or maybe her limo driver was insufficiently worshipful.)
But “The View” is a talk show, not a news program.
And ABC’s real issue is its news coverage. That leans just as far left as Sunny and Whoopi.
Anyone who saw the Ron Burgundy-esque shenanigans at the debate knows that.
Heck, anyone who’s seen any ABC coverage at all over the past eight years knows that.
So by all means bring on a smart, funny, pro-Trump woman; there’s a plethora to choose from.
But then apply that even-handed thinking to the network as a whole — and who knows?
You might actually start repairing the public’s devastated trust in journalism.