WHY TV NETWORKS MAY BE AFRAID OF INVESTIGATIVE STORIES:

This has been the autumn of discontent for investigative TV journalists.

Ronan Farrow’s bestselling book “Catch and Kill” detailed his frustration with former bosses at NBC News over his failed attempt to break the story on the sexual assault and harassment allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. A month later, leaked video showed ABC’s “20/20” co-anchor Amy Robach grousing over how the network would not run a 2015 interview with a victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that implicated Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton.

In both cases the networks said the stories never reached the editorial standard they believed was necessary to put it on the air. Robach even publicly backed up ABC’s assertion, saying her private remarks on an open mike were made in “a moment of frustration.”

CTL-F Ashley Bianco, zero results. As Jim Treacher wrote a couple of weeks ago, “The Media’s Silence on CBS Firing Ashley Bianco Proves #MeToo Is a Sham.” And note that the above article appears in the L.A. Times. Keep Rockin’!