On the April 9 edition of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, correspondent Dan Harris, reporting on Don Imus' April 4 comments on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” noted that “Imus interview[ed] politicians and journalists” both before and since his comments but did not mention that World News anchor Charles Gibson has appeared on Imus' radio program himself. Rather, footage of NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, and a graphic from Imus in the Morning that pictured Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant and Newsweek's Evan Thomas and Howard Fineman appeared on-screen while Harris reported on the prominence of Imus' guests.

While Russert did, in fact, appear on the April 6, March 16, and March 7 editions of Imus in the Morning, Gibson was also a guest on the program's March 27 and February 15 editions.

From the April 9 edition of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson:

HARRIS: Imus interviews leading politicians and journalists. He did so before the comment and has done so since. Al Sharpton says Imus is mainstreaming racism and should be fired.

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HARRIS: For you, this is not so much about Don Imus, this is about everybody else and what can be said in public?

REV. AL SHARPTON: That is exactly right. This has nothing to do with Don Imus. It has everything to do with federally regulated airwaves, radio and television, and what advertisers will subsidize and pay for.

TODD BOYD (University of Southern California professor)): I don't think he's gonna lose his job. No. He's too profitable to too many people for a comment like this to derail him, particularly when you have someone who has a history of provocative, inflammatory comment.

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HARRIS: He may not lose his job, but tonight, there is this: NBC is now saying it will suspend its simulcast of the Imus in the Morning show for two weeks. They simulcast it on MSNBC. CBS, which syndicates the show, has criticized his comments, but Charlie, as of yet, there is no talk of canceling the show.

GIBSON: ABC's Dan Harris, reporting tonight.