Example below collected via email in October 2001,
Dear friend,
Dear friend,
Yesterday, the brass at ABC News issued orders forbidding reporters to wear lapel pin American flags or other patriotic insignia. Their reasoning was that ABC should remain neutral about "causes". Since when is support for preventing our death & destruction some sort of a cause? Since when is patriotism to be discouraged. I urge you to boycott ABC and its sponsors and affiliates.
Please forward this to as many as you can.
How can ABC, which according to snopes.com has had this policy since 9/11, honestly say the policy is to make their reporting objective and professional when they are so incredibly bias towards certain presidential candidates and political causes? It's this double standard, their obvious biases, that makes me think their "no flag pin" policy is motivated not by "objectivity" but for political reasons.
I can actually see ABC's point, that some viewers may respond hysterically to a journalist/commentator wearing a flag pin, but c'mon, if I saw a Canadian newscaster wearing a pin of his country, or a Spaniard wearing one of theirs, I wouldn't think they were a government spokesperson.
After all, we're Americans/Canadians (or other free country), individual journalists should have the freedom to follow their own conscience on a decision like this.
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