That’s what an ABC News staffer asks about ABC News Now, the network’s broadband news channel, which has been showing up YouTube a lot lately. And not in a good way. The most recent clip involves anchors Ryan Owens and Taina Hernandez, who handle the overnight broadcast, laughing through the story on Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt. Turns out this isn’t the first time, as a YouTube user has assesmbled a bunch of clips of the duo laughing through stories on terrorism, fires and floods. “It’s all the more puzzling that ABC News would countenance such sophomoric antics on the same channel where the division is looking to extend its hard-news brand,” writes Marisa Guthrie in B&C.
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