ABC Bans Payment For News: Take That Casey Anthony!

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By Nads | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 | 10:00 am | 4 Comments
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After the whole Casey Anthony drama, ABC has finally decided to put an end to paying their news subjects. It’s not a complete ban–they will use their discretion in special circumstances after approval, but for the most part they’re publicly putting and end to it. A spokesperson for the network told The Daily Beast, “We can book just about anyone based on the strength of our journalism, the excellence of our anchors, correspondents, and producers, and the size of our audience. These licensing deals had become a crutch, and an unnecessary one.”

Although ABC already paid Casey Anthony $200,000 for photos back in 2008 (before she was charged for murdering her daughter), there will be no money exchanged for an interview. I’m so glad that all the networks have united on this front. Casey Anthony shouldn’t get a penny off her heinous crime.

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4 Comments

  1. 1
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted July 26, 2011 at 10:15 am

    I’d respect ABC’s decision a lot more if the network hadn’t left themselves a giant loophole, in that it can still “use their discretion in special circumstances after approval”.

    Which basically means, “Casey Anthony isn’t worth taking further heat over, but if A REALLY BIG story comes along, we still want to be able to pay people off for interviews before they go talk to those goddam Today Show people.”

  2. 2
    iamrufus
    Posted July 26, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    Like this will really affect Casey, anyway. No $$ at ABC? Ok, I’ll just take my fractured fairy tales elsewhere. SOMEONE will pay, up to the millions, and if it isn’t them–then no, she won’t be taking them up on their deal. Miss Anthony seems like she could give two shits about their “journalistic strength” or “excellent anchors”. Where’s The Check??

  3. 3
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted July 27, 2011 at 4:36 am

    Yeah, that press release was ABC covering its ass and simultaneously giving itself a love tug.

  4. 4
    straighttohell
    Posted July 27, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Someone,SOMEWHERE will pay for this, and big bucks too, because as much as the public looooves to bitch about Casey being infamose and “profiting” from Caylee’s death, they eat up every news story or blog about the case, AND will tune in to any interview/story released by Casey and her team.

    Hopefully, the civil suits will eat away at that moneypie…but you best believe the news/tabloid networks are making a big profit!

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