This week it was announced that ABC News President Kim Godwin would be stepping down from her position later this summer and retiring completely from broadcasting. The reaction felt by many inside the network was, “Finally.” Godwin has had a tumultuous three years or so at the helm, and speculation has long been that she needed to go, but there has been a hesitancy at the network to make the move.
The reasons for this timid approach to what many felt was a needed move seem rooted in a self-created atmosphere where ABC – owned as it is by the Disney Company – was hemmed in by the very politically correct parameters it sets up for itself. While it cannot be stated that Godwin had been a DEI hire, there are some of those aspects of the diversity movement that trapped the company.
When Godwin was hired just over three years ago, she was highly touted as the first black female to…
