ABC News suspended "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks on Tuesday night, hours after she apologized for having falsely declared on the daytime program that the Holocaust was "not about race."
Highlights
- “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust were “wrong and hurtful” “We must be cognant of the impact our words have,” ABC News president says.
- “The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and friends,” Godwin says.
- Godwin said that decisions over matters are “never easy” and that decisions were made over matters of personal and professional life are difficult to make but not easy, he says.
- The decision to suspend the actor and comedian from the show was made in light of the comments, Godwin writes in an email to staff.
- “We are not happy,” he says.