ABC Evening News

I used to trust ABC News to deliver news. Lately, though, they are using the limited time in their broadcast to "report" what is happening at Disney resorts. I cannot believe real news people are putting up with shilling for Disney products and calling it news. It is appalling.

There is a lot going on in the world and, given the large number of ads in a 30-minute broadcast, there is actually less than 18 minutes devoted to reporting news. To displace coverage of events that matter with events important mostly to Disney properties is a disservice to viewers and an embarrassment to professional reporters.

Tonight David Muir teased the Disney honors no less than 5 times then devoted more than two minutes to the awards ceremony, now streaming on Disney+. This is not news, it is using a supposed news program to shill for ABC's parent company.

"ABC News" was always highly informative in the evening with the now late and great Peter Jennings. The network was always on top of things in events, though from time to time the network would focus much on international and foreign affair issues. The reporting and interviewing was always top notch from people like Charles Gibson, John Stossel, and Elizabeth Vargas, and the legendary Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs were unbeatable. Yet the most traditional and best was Peter Jennings it was sad he passed so young, Peter always told the news in a traditional manner with such a smooth and calm voice and he was always a hard working newsman and anchor. And ABC is probably the most conservative of the big three certainly more to the right than NBC or CBS.

Last night's debate done by the moderators of ABC was the worst one ever seen in the history of news. ABC is no longer considered a trustworthy station. Instead of being unbiased fair moderators, David Muir and Lindsey Davis attacked Trump and fact checked everything he said but did nothing of the sort for Kamala. They also gave their opinions which journalists should never do. I grew up watching ABC and respected PeterJennings. ABC is NOT THE SAME honest and honorable station it used to be. I am walking away from a station I grew up with and will never come back. Thank you for opening my eyes up to this biased unfair station and the untrusted journalists that work for you.

Of the "big three" anchors of the '80s and '90s, it always seemed like Peter Jennings was the most intellectual. Hard to believe that in his 22 years as anchor, he covered the collapse of the Soviet bloc and later September 11. As I understand it, early criticism of him came because of his more circumspect approach to certain topics than other anchors (or maybe it was just because he was Canadian).

Still, from what I've heard, it would have been good to see "ABC Evening News" during the Vietnam War and hear John Chancellor's indictment of that war. I remember when Peter Jennings showed the 25th anniversary of the modern broadcast's first airing (they reported on the trial of some Soviet Jews): John Chancellor correctly identified that the USSR was dooming itself to failure.

But no matter. Had Peter Jennings survived a few more weeks, he could have covered Hurricane Katrina. I had never known that he smoked. But a radio station noted that he reported on anti-war protests when the US invaded Iraq, so you gotta give him credit for that.

So, for all it's flaws, I recommend this news show.

What a disappoint ABC WORLD NEWS has become. It's 5 commercials for 1 story. Painful to watch but i do it until i can watch my favourite, Lester Holt and NBC.

Since we lost Peter Jennings ABC is not nowhere near what it was!