{"id":145981,"date":"2018-05-29T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145981"},"modified":"2018-05-30T21:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T02:28:45","slug":"abc-cancels-roseanne-after-barrs-racist-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145981","title":{"rendered":"ABC cancels Roseanne after Barr&#8217;s tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145982\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BarrRoseanne-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BarrRoseanne-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BarrRoseanne-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BarrRoseanne.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BarrRoseanne-264x175.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger says canceling &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; was an easy decision.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing the statement Tuesday from Disney-owned ABC on the show&#8217;s cancellation over a racist tweet from Roseanne Barr, Iger tweeted, &#8220;There was only one thing to do here and that was the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iger&#8217;s statement came just a few minutes after ABC President Channing Dungey announced the rebooted sitcom was canceled in a statement calling Barr&#8217;s tweets &#8220;abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Others approving of the move included Georgia Congressman John Lewis. The civil rights leader tweeted thanks to ABC, saying the network did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Barr apologized for her tweet before ABC announced its cancellation of her show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Disney chairman and CEO Robert Iger says canceling &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; was an easy decision. After sharing the statement Tuesday from Disney-owned ABC on the show&#8217;s cancellation over a racist tweet from Roseanne Barr, Iger tweeted, &#8220;There was only one thing to do here and that was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146102,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145981\/revisions\/146102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}