ABC Issues Statement To Apologize For Offensive Jimmy Kimmel Talk Show Skit

[Purveyor]

People rally in front of the headquarters of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) to protest against its rhetoric of racial discrimination in Burbank, California, the United States, Nov. 9, 2013. In ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show aired on Oct. 16, a boy shouted, "Kill everyone in China!" when Kimmel asked how the United States should do about the 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars debt owed to China. Kimmel laughed and said, "That's an interesting idea." (Xinhua/Zhang Chaoqun)

by Liu Si

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- American Broadcasting Company (ABC) has issued a statement on its website to apologize for its airing of a talk show segment which has been widely considered racism among the Chinese community, ABC's spokesperson confirmed to Xinhua on Sunday.

In a press release titled "Statement on behalf of ABC Entertainment and Jimmy Kimmel Live!", dated Nov. 8, the broadcaster also promised to strengthen its review process and take other steps to "prevent this type of issue from happening again."

On Saturday, Xinhua News Agency Los Angeles Bureau received an apology statement under the name of Hope Hartman, who is ABC's communications vice president. Xinhua correspondents tried to telephone and email Hartman right after receiving the letter but got no replies.

On Sunday morning, Hartman, using her title as ABC spokesperson, wrote back to Xinhua to confirm Saturday's statement, adding that ABC has "issued this apology several times already."

The statement admitted that "The simple fact is, the segment should never have been broadcast. Systems we have in place for these types of things did not function properly, and steps have been made to try and prevent this kind of egregious mistake from occurring in the future."

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. oferchrissakes...

now the Chinese have skins so thin they seem stretched from here to Hong Kong.

Let's kill Jimmy Kimmel and every other comic who ever said a rude word. Not politicians, though, and never any Chinese who are taking their own toll on Chinese lives.

[DonCoquixote]

2. ok two bad sides

On the one hand, the last thing I want to do is defend a racost, stupid joke, by one of the lazier comedians out there.

On the other hand, China seems very willing to take up their role as Imperial Power.