The Note has a clarification about the producers who were pulled from the Kucinich, Sharpton, and CMB campaigns.
They'll still be covering the campaigns, they just won't be traveling with them 24/7:
The reporters are still assigned to report multiple times each day by phone and e-mail on these campaigns, meaning that ABC News continues to cover these three candidacies more closely than all but perhaps one other news organization.
This decision was made early this week, unrelated to any other events, and is, frankly, a routine coverage decision.
If there is criticism to be made regarding news organizations failure to devote resources to taking the Kucinich candidacy seriously, we believe ABC News should be last in line for that, not first.
I had a feeling all the hysteria was unwarranted. And the reaction was pretty hysterical:
We don't want to play any role in deciding who the Democratic Party will nominate. But based on the totality of our reporting, we believe it is necessary to make certain the candidates who are more likely to win the nomination and therefore the White House get covered as well in a way that will help voters make their decisions.
So for you Kucinich supporters who say we have "stooped to new lows," that our coverage has been "biased, misleading, inaccurate, and just plain crap," that we have "marginalized," "dismissed," and abandoned the three candidates -- we agree that we have a responsibility to strive to let all voices be heard, and we take that seriously, but we hope you have a different perspective now that you have the facts.