ABC News says it was bad for his team, Tweet, that Obama had called West a "donkey" for the treatment of rapper country singer Taylor Swift. The network said some of his aides had a conversation between the president and John Harwood, CNBC and realize that no microphones, it was considered off the record.
The network apologized to the White House and CNBC.
Harwood had with the president of SAT for an interview after his appearance on Wall Street on Monday Band. Although the line competitor, CNBC and NBC share, an optical fiber to save money, and this has enabled some employees to participate in the ABC interview that was taped for later use.
His attention was focused on talking about the West, which was widely criticized for the disruption of Swift, for example, a prize Sunday at the MTV Video Music Awards Beyonce deserves to be accepted.
What seems to begin during informal banter before the interview, the question is whether Obama's daughters angered the West by sequestration of accepting testimony Swift was, according to an audio copy was posted on TMZ.com.
"I was thinking, really inappropriate," said Obama. "What are you doing in BUTTING (for)? ... She seems a very nice person. She is a coveted prize. What are you doing here?"
An interrogator Bells: "Why do that?"
"He's an ass," replies Obama, which is itself filled with laughter of several people.
The president seems clear quickly that may have gone too far, jovial, and appeals to the audience that the observation will remain confidential. "Come on guys," he says. "Cut the President some slack. I have many things in the dishes."
E-mails between ABC employees fired over Obama's comments, said Jeffrey Schneider, a spokesman for ABC News. Above all was on the air or ABC website reported that at least three officials participated in Twitter network to spread the message.
One was Terry Moran, a former White House correspondent. You are logged on Twitter and write, "Put. Obama just called Kanye West for" donkey "for his outburst at the VMAs, when Taylor Swift won. Now That's presidential."
If ABC News had deleted the authorities learned of the tweets after an hour, said Schneider. Moran received a request for comment.
But from the news.
Harwood said that there is no express agreement with the President that these comments were being recorded. But he said it is a tradition that this program is off before the interview starts the record, as gossip until the formal interview. Harwood believes that: He spoke of what the president said before the interview and has no plans to do this on CNBC.
He said he was aware that it is unlikely that anybody outside the CNBC heard his conversation with the president.
"One thing that is regrettable," he said. "But I think it's an honest mistake."
There was no immediate response to questions from White House spokeswoman.
Twitter, a technology that provides a natural tool for the reporter to tell people what pushed know every time you need to know and love towards the front in use in many ways to rule the policy, have developed the use of, said Richard Wald, a former ABC News executive and professor at Columbia University.
"We must reinforce the feeling that you check before publishing," said Wald. "Politics can be quite large, may not be adequate to technology, news organizations have."
The incident is recalled in the past, "open mic" events associated with politicians. President Ronald Reagan, waiting to make a speech in 1984, joked that he was the Soviet Union was prohibited and that "the bombing begins in five minutes." During the 2000 election campaign, George W. Bush turned to his running mate, Dick Cheney said a New York Times and used an obscenity to describe it.
"If you sit there with a microphone, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy," said Kelly McBride, an ethicist at the Poynter Institute for journalism. "If you're a governor or president, you know."
He also asked whether news organizations agree, proceed to the entrance to the President should.
As for the things written with other Twitter users from the West campaign, Obama was not in the minority, "she said.
"The President calls Kanye West for" donkey "is the perfect information for a sound!" , Said. "In fact, this is the ideal format. You can do in 140 characters. Not much to say.
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