NBC Slammed for Airing Trump's "Racist" Caravan Ad During 'Sunday Night Football'

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Source: hollywoodreporter.com




November 04, 2018 8:57pm PT by THR Staff




NBC is getting grief over its decision to air an election ad from President Trump that focuses on the migrant caravan in Mexico.

The airing of the ad came around 7:30 p.m. PT on Sunday, about two hours into NBC's Sunday Night Football broadcast in a game between the Green Bay Packers and the New England Patriots. It also comes a day after news surfaced that CNN had declined to air the spot, calling it "racist."

The ad focuses on the "7,000-migrant caravan" crossing Mexico that has been in the news —...............................

Scores of viewers immediately took to Twitter to call NBC out for its airing of the spot. Judd Apatow, for one, sent out a series of tweets and retweets.

"So @nbc and @Comcast aired that racist Trump caravan commercial during the football game. Who made that decision? How did they decide it was ok? I am disgusted that you would air that after @cnn refused to air it because it is explicitly racist. Shame on you. @NBCNews"................................

Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbc-slammed-airing-trumps-racist-caravan-ad-football-game-1158023?utm_source=twitter

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yes, time to just turn off nbc. yes. yes. yes.

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[riversedge]

1. Also this is a good point--nbc should have rejected the ad for its lying focus.

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Dan Pfeiffer Retweeted southpaw

Even if NBC decided they were cool with making a few bucks on racism they should have rejected the ad based on factual inaccuracies

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[rockfordfile]

2. NBC promoted racism. Boycott NBC.

[SergeStorms]

8. Unfortunately....

MSNBC is part of the NBC family. If we boycott MSNBC we're shooting ourselves in our collective feet. If there's someway to target NBC specifically, that would be alright, but I wouldn't want it to reflect on anything MSNBC is doing.

[watoos]

21. What makes you think that msnbc is progressive?

msnbc only puts a progressive slant on the corporate narrative. We had several msnbc anchors who veered from the corporate narrative; Phil Donahue, Keith Olberman, Uygur, Brashear, Harris/Perry, Ratigan, Ed Schultz all veered from the right wing narrative and all of them got canned. msnbc and CNN are not progressive channels. When I see people like Bill Press and Stephanie Miller and yes Thom Hartmann on msnbc as news anchors then I will agree that msnbc is progressive.

[rpannier]

3. Be interested as to what NBC's pathetic excuse will be

Blame an unnamed intern?

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[PSPS]

4. Now we have NBC's version of Moonves: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for NBC."

[dalton99a]

5. Yep. Assholes.

[Cattledog]

6. Make your voice heard here.

https://www.nbc.com/contact-us

[Duppers]

10. Thank you!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. But better not kneel bc folks dont want you to

get your politics in their football (like an old Reeses Cup Ad). People just want to enjoy the game right? FU NBC.

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[Duppers]

9. NBC is owned by Comcast.

'Nuff said.

[TeamPooka]

12. The Roberts family who controls Comcast are Koch's with cable TV

[watoos]

23. Exactly, You get it

There are no progressive cable news networks. We have Fox (bad cop) and msnbc/CNN (good cop) pushing the same right wing narratives every damn day.

[PandoraAwakened]

11. Oy, and I thought we were finally going to start having a real conversation about racism.

Wow, the only way MSNBC salvages themselves out of this debacle is for its anchors to treat it as a story, without showing the ad, whereby they are unequivocal in condemning NBC's actions. But, I have no idea how that scenario might develop.

[watoos]

24. NBC did what its corporate controlled overlords wanted.

[Kev_B]

13. I guess I missed it

Maybe Can Con laws are a good thing, after all.

[underpants]

20. I missed it too

[watoos]

25. I have been wondering the same thing Kev.

Hate speech is causing murders in America. When do we get to the point that we look at censorship, never?

[uponit7771]

14. Saw this, that was fucked up NBC

[CincyDem]

17. IIRC, networks are not allowed to edit or content reject candidate ads.

They can do the o PAC ads based on content be they are obligated to run candidate ads as provided and are not allowed to reject them based on content.

No question, it’s a vile lie filled piece of shit. It once a candidate puts the “I’m John Doe and I approve this ad” statement in it, it’s off limits to the standards folks.

So, they have to run it. And they should have run it between disclaimers. This was dint recently somewhere else, forget where. IIRC it was a local station that did an intro.

They should have said here are some facts and then ran the bullchit.

[DRoseDARs]

18. I must be missing something. Trump is a candidate running for office? nt

[duforsure]

19. I turned the channel when they started showing it,

And I plan on dropping Comcast soon too.

[riversedge]

22. NBC STATEMENT, June 30, 2015: **ended its business relationship with Trump over Immigration...

ummm.




southpaw
‏ @nycsouthpaw

NBC STATEMENT, June 30, 2015:

“At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are cornerstones of our values. Due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants, NBCUniversal is ending its business relationship with Mr. Trump.”

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[DonViejo]

26. Locking...

Tweeted opinions are just that, opinions. And they are not important news of national interest.