ABC AND PRIMETIME LIVE ACCUSED OF PROMOTING GAY AGENDA

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ABC AND PRIMETIME LIVE ACCUSED OF PROMOTING GAY AGENDA
Monday, April 4 2005

A Virginia couple has accused ABC News and its magazine program Primetime Live of setting them up for a forthcoming feature designed to "help further the homosexual agenda." Susan Farinholt has told CNSNews.com, a unit of the conservative Media Research Center, that they had originally been approached to appear on a program that would examine different parenting styles. She said that she and her husband did not learn until much later that another one of the couples was gay and that they would be compelled to attend a birthday party for the gay couple's 2-year-old son. She said that at the party she told a producer, "This was wrong, that we were told we were just going to come and observe, and you're bringing up this debate at a two-year-old child's birthday party. So we decided to leave." Farinholt added, "We're frustrated because we did not go there to help further the homosexual agenda, which is what we feel we were possibly used to do."

BAD TIME FOR PRIMETIME PRODUCER
Tuesday, March 15 2005

After continually denying reports that she had been battling with producers of ABC's Primetime Live and that staff morale had plummeted, Shelley Ross was removed as executive producer of the magazine show. She will be replaced, at least temporarily, by 20/20 executive producer David Sloan. Last month USA Today reported that some staffers had filed complaints about Ross with ABC's Human Resources department and that others had requested transfers to other ABC News programs. Ross (more)

PRIMETIME LIVE EXPERIENCES RATINGS PLUNGE
Thursday, February 10 2005
ABC's Primetime Live, which has seen its ratings plunge this season without the regular services of Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson, is being further rattled by staff unrest and displeasure over changes that have been introduced by producer Shelley Ross, USA Today reported today (Thursday). The newspaper reported that some of the program's staff have taken complaints about Ross to management; others have asked for transfers to other ABC news programs; and still others are (more)