ABC News president absolutely excoriates news staff over Brian Ross's fake Flynn story

If you've ever been part of a news organization, you're familiar with the weekly editorial meeting. Everyone on the team gathers and discusses upcoming stories, in addition to reviewing those recently published or aired and discussing anything that could have been done better. Usually it's run by one of the editors. When one of the really big bosses gets involved, it's unusual. When the big boss calls in, it's a pretty big deal. Especially if it's because he's mad. So when ABC News president James Goldston called in yesterday to his crew's Monday editorial meeting, he had a few things to say about Brian Ross's gigantic screwup on the Mike Flynn story last week. He was not pleased. And apparently Ross has some frenemies within ABC because someone went ahead and gave audio of the call to CNN, which to its credit didn't bury it out of concern it would help President Trump - as we might reasonably expect CNN to do given its own anti-Trump behavior.