Ousted GMA anchor torches ABC News, Michael Strahan for being complicit in upholding white supremacy

Former “Good Morning America Weekend” anchor Janai Norman has been blasting ABC News and some of its biggest stars just months after her ouster — raising eyebrows among her former colleagues at the Disney-owned network, according to a report.Norman has unleashed a string of blistering social media critiques of her old employer, including accusing it and other news organizations of becoming “complicit in upholding white supremacy” in a video that took aim at “GMA” host Michael Strahan’s interview with the parents of a dead Mississippi teen.The unusually public broadsides have irked staffers at ABC News, according to the Status newsletter, which reported Friday that Norman’s attacks have “raised eyebrows among many” at the network.Norman, whose contract was not renewed by ABC earlier this year, ripped Strahan over his questioning of the parents of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old who was found dead after a boating trip with friends.During the interview, Strahan asked the grieving parents why their son would have voluntarily stayed behind on Horn Island, according to a clip included in Norman’s video.“Bless Michael, ’cause he had it right the first time,” Norman said in her commentary.“The question should have been, ‘Do you believe that?’ Not asking these grieving parents to defend a decision that we don’t even know for certain their deceased son made.”“That was not an objective question,” Norman continued.“Subjectively, I would say that it was insensitive.”Norman then broadened her criticism beyond Strahan, accusing news outlets of placing too much trust in law enforcement.“Many news organizations haven’t yet learned that they cannot always trust law enforcement as primary sources of credible information, and that is what plays into racial divisions,” Norman said.She cited what she called the “historical context of Mississippi — the state with the most recorded lynchings in history” before arguing that news organ...