Alexis Debat, a consultant for ABC for years and also a writer for The National Interest, resigned from ABC in June 2007 after the broadcasting company discovered that he did not have a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne as he pretended.^[9] Furthermore, in September 2007, the French news media Rue 89 revealed that he had made at least two bogus interviews, one of Barack Obama and another of Alan Greenspan, both published in the French magazine Politique internationale.^[10][11] This in turn also led to his resignation from The National Interest.^[9] Debat had specialized in reports on terrorism and national security for the past six years (writing, for example, on the Jundallah Balochi and Sunni organization.^[12][9]

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See also

• ABC Daytime
• ESPN on ABC
• List of ABC slogans
• List of ABC owned and affiliated television stations, arranged by market
• List of ABC owned and affiliated television stations, arranged by state
• List of programs broadcast by American Broadcasting Company
• List of United States broadcast television networks
• TGIF (ABC)
• American Broadcasting Company logos

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Notes

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References

• Barnouw, Erik. The Golden Web: A History of Broadcasting in the United States,. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
• Goldenson, Leonard, and Marvin J. Wolf. Beating the Odds: The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC. New York: Scribners, 1991.
• Kisseloff, Jeff, The Box: An Oral History of Television,. New York: Viking Press, 1988.
• Sampson, Anthony. The Sovereign State of ITT. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
• Sobel, Robert. ITT. New York: Truman Talley - Times Books, 1982.
• Taylor, Alan. We, the media: Pedagogic Intrusions into US Mainstream Film and Television News Broadcasting Rhetorics, Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 418 (includes Touchstone Pictures/ABC)

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External links

• ABC website
• Disney-ABC Television Group
• ABC Promos
• A bio of Former President Fred Silverman