Ai: and so is the media. What is their role? Support government? This is more and more bad, I live in former socialist country in Europe so I’m used to this kind of behaviour and I can tell you..you would pray to come back out of this kind of media.
Nikki Finke of the LA Weekly has this disturbing report from NBC’s fall schedule announcement:
On this morning’s conference call, I asked NBC what it plans to do this fall regarding what the networks are complaining privately are too many White House requests to break into primetime programming for announcements, speeches, press conferences, etc. NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios co-chairman Ben Silverman joked that the network “has shared the fall schedule” with President Obama “and he’s really excited about the Winter Olympics”. But behind-the-scenes the networks are annoyed by all the primetime disruptions, especially after Fox enjoyed better ratings when it decided not to carry a recent Obama event in order to run its regularly scheduled programming. Today NBC said it has “a duty to support our President without fail” and would “evaluate on a case by case basis” which White House events to carry in primetime “but as we demonstrated this year we support our President unequivaocally [sic], and we look forward to Barack Obama, our President, being back on Jay Leno.” (Emphasis added)
S.M. Oliva from Mises.org commentary
Sphere: Related ContentGiven that NBC Universal — which, of course, also owns various “news” outlets — is owned by GE, one really can’t feign surprise at the network’s “unequivocal” support for Obama. And as NBC continues to slide further in ratings and advertising revenue, no doubt executives are counting on White House “support” to prevent a full-scale collapse of the network. After all, NBC is “too big to fail.”
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