Former ABC News Boss Slams Nexstar for Fredo Hire

You can count former ABC News boss Shelly Ross as not a fan of Nexstar hiring disgraced CNN host Chris Cuomo.

Ross took to Facebook taking aim at Nexstar’s News Nation and host Dan Abrams, who said that criticism of his cable channel over Cuomo’s hiring was due to the fact that it posed a “danger to the status quo.”

“Dan, I’m a decades-long fan of yours,” Ross wrote in response to Abrams, who is also ABC News’ chief legal analyst.

“But you’ve got this one wrong. The (modest) mixed reaction to Cuomo’s new job does not prove the status quo of the media is under threat.”

Ross added: “Cuomo IS the status quo, same old same old arrogant, misogynistic proud member of the old boy’s club. No one cares what News Nation ratings are. I am rooting for something new, fresh and honest.”

“Just maybe some of us don’t see Cuomo as that answer… those who have been disappointed in his lack of genuine contrition,” Ross wrote.

“As he continues to parse his words, hide behind the love of a brother, deny wrongdoing, he remains tone-deaf and phony to many of us.”

“I’m all for second chances. But I won’t believe he is a disrupter until he disrupts something and finds a greater cause than himself.”

Last year, Ross wrote a column in the New York Times in which she alleged that Cuomo grabbed her ass in front of her husband and co-workers at a Manhattan party in 2005.

Fredo said that he apologized for doing that.

H/T NY Post