ABC News Gets Another Black Eye with Tony Scott Cancer Story

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ABC News Gets Another Black Eye with Tony Scott Cancer Story

After the family of Tony Scott denied an ABC News report that the director, who committed suicide on Sunday, had inoperable brain cancer, the pile-on by media reporters has been fierce and unyielding. It's been a rough month for the network news operation.

ABC started backing off its scoop that Scott had cancer about a half an hour after it ran, Deadline's Nikki Finke and Mike Flemming reported. Scott's family "was not aware Scott had cancer," ABC News wrote, a claim that still sits at the top of the new story to which the original redirects, headlined "Tony Scott Brain Cancer Report Appears in Doubt." According to the Los Angeles Times, Scott's family wasn't just unaware of any cancer, they were actively denying the report. "The family told us it is incorrect that he has inoperable brain cancer," coroner's office chief Craig Harvey told Times reporters Richard Winton and Andrew Blankstein.

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