After Fishbowl told you yesterday that Martin Bashir's employer ABC seemed not to be giving him the requisite level of Corporate Love in his contretemps with the Santa Maria County judge presiding in the Michael Jackson trial, word has filtered down from said network that, no, ABC does love him. "We totally got his back," one top-level ABCer told us. They're even paying for the attorney who's trying to keep Bashir out of jail for contempt.

Fishbowl thinks that's great. We also think ABC should consider referring to some of this outpouring of support on their website, which, apparently, still never heard of the guy.

Advantage: The Judge, who ain't happy about having this kind of thing go on in his courtroom, but who also doesn't want to blow the whole thing by sentencing Marty to jail before the trial is properly underway. It's still a sixty-forty proposition in the Court's favor, despite ABC stepping up for their guy. But at least the cavalry's here.