ABC News forced to cover itself over racial remark allegations against senior news executive Barbara Fedida

Variety

Sunday's Good Morning America covered the report by Yashar Ali in The Huffington Post detailing troubling allegations, some racially tinged, against Fedida, the head of ABC News' talent and business. This morning, Fedida was placed on leave. The allegations were a hot topic on The View because Ali reported that Fedida described Sunny Hostin as "low rent." “It was a tough weekend for me and I was really disappointed and saddened and hurt when I learned about the racist comments that were made, allegedly, about me, my colleagues and my dear friends,” Hostin said on The View. She also called on ABC to address allegations of systemic racism. “Regardless of social stature, no one is immune,” she said. “It’s the type or racism that black people deal with every single day and it has to stop." Fellow The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg defended Fedida, saying: "I know Barbara Fedida and I don’t think she’s a racist. Everything I know about her doesn’t say that she has this in her. But I will say that one of the things that everyone should always make sure we say — and I say it all the time — is let’s find out. Let’s find out. If it’s true, she’s gone. If it’s not, let’s find out what’s going on. An independent investigation is what this needs. The days of systemic racism are ending. Those walls are coming down and we’re pulling them down.”