I am so tired of these puffed up corporate "vampire kings" interfering with democracy.
Jack Welch used corporate muscle to engage in psychos for George Bush on election night 2000-when people were beginning to realize that there was something strange going on in vote counting.
NBC was calling Gore the winner, then suddenly changed it to Bush --what had changed was Jack Welch had gone into the Newsroom. Later NBC refused to turn over tape which could show what happened. Andrew Lack first agreed to release tape then reneged.
http://variety.com/2001/tv/news/ge-s-welch-in-jam-over-election-1117852770/
According to Waxman’s investigation, Welch repeatedly distracted Gawiser by asking how the desk worked. He allegedly also secured direct access to VNS data.
“Efforts were reportedly made during this time period to escort Mr. Welch away from the Decision Desk. These efforts did not succeed,” Waxman said in his letter to Wright.
Called the race
Ultimately, after studying raw data for himself, Welch questioned Gawiser about calling the race for Bush, Waxman said. Around the same time, Fox News Channel predicted Bush the winner. Within a few minutes, Gawiser let the control room know that the Peacock would declare Bush the winner as well.
All the while, an inhouse camera was rolling, Waxman said.
Initially, NBC prexy Andrew Lack told Waxman he was welcome to any such tapes, if any indeed existed. In later correspondence, Lack backed off, with the Peacock changing its position to say that giving Waxman the inhouse footage would intrude on the editorial process.
Waxman said he is not talking about NBC journalists, but about Welch, a corporate exec.
“Mr. Welch is not a journalist, a news analyst, or a part of the NBC news division,” Waxman said. “His actions have little, if any, entitlement to the First Amendment protections belonging to the news media.”
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