NBC - More Conservative

[bmichaelh]

Has anyone noticed that NBC appears to be more conservative than in years past?

For example, every time Katie Couric interviews Condolezza Rice she never really asks any hard questions.

Also, in a Meet the Press moment about a month ago, the subject was about the nomination of Goss for CIA director.

The moderator never asked two US members of Congress about the Goss interview with Michael Moore where he said he was not qualified to work at the CIA.

Also, the moderator never mentioned the comment of Goss regarding the leaking of Ambassador Wilson's wife's CIA cover to Robert Novak. His comment was to the effect show him a blue dress and he will do an investigation.

What is disheartening is that the Democratic congressperson never brought this up!

[dumpster_baby]

1. agreed, in part --NBC favors GOP

but ALL the networks are conservative. And so is Kerry and the Democrats!

[dennis4868]

2. "NBC appears to be more conservative""

No kidding....really?

Seriously, Yes everyone here knows that not only is NBC more conservative but also all the other TV and cable TV news programs...this is obvious and has been going on for many years now...this is why Kerry is not up by 20 points in the poll and Bush is not back in Crawford as an impeached pResident!

[glitch]

3. NBC = Nothing But Conservative - Brokaw is unwatchable

Welcome to DU!

[Frances]

4. I suggest that you watch NBC, ABC, and CBS on the same day

In my opinion, NBC is the most conservative, ABC the next, and CBS the least.

CBS almost always gives more facts than the other two networks IMO.

(The reason I often see so much of each is that my husband switches back and forth between NBC and ABC because they come on at the same time. Then he watches CBS. I started watching with him just to compare the networks.)

I think we do ourselves a disservice when we don't distinguish between networks.

[BlueScreen]

5. General Electric Theater

Hi bmichaelh.

I've noticed this too. Because Fox News Channel is so transparent in its bias, I've begun 'trolling other networks to find similar instances of Republican media control.

You have to remember that all the NBC affiliates were purchased by General Electric in 1986. The deal was hatched by NBC talking head John McLaughlin and GE chairman Jack Welch. McLaughlin's wife at the time was a high-level official in the Reagan White House at the time. GE had a longstanding relationship with Ronald Reagan, having installed him as host of TVs General Electric Theater back in the 1950s when Reagan was an actor. Now that Reagan had become the archangel of the right, GE made it their goal to promote him as much as possible.

They gave financial support to a host of right-wing outlets, including Bill Simon and Irv Kristol's Institute for Educational Affairs, to C. Boyden Gray's Citizens for a Sound Economy, to the Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Back during the height of the disputed election of 2000, rumor has it that GE chairman Welch leaned hard on the NBC Control Room to promote the message that Gore had lost by saying: "What would I have to give you to call the race for Bush?" As it so happened, NBC was the next station to call the race for Bush, right after the Fox News Channel.

In 1989, GE launched CNBC and installed Roger Ailes as president. This is the same Roger Ailes that was hired by Richard Nixon to help improve Nixon's "sell-ability" to the American people back in the late 1960s. The same Roger Ailes, who, in 1992, became executive producer for Rush Limbaugh's ill-fated TV show. The same Roger Ailes who was hand-picked by Rupert Murdoch to oversee all day-to-day operations at the Fox News Channel, where he currently resides.

And, speaking of Fox, the current GE chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, told Fox News in a televised interview: "I think the standard right now is Fox. I want to be as interesting and as edgy as your guys are."

(This information is paraphrased from David Brock's 2004 publication, "The Republican Noise Machine". Highly recommended.)

[MichiganVote]

6. NBC, Couric and Laurer=happy news. Worthless. Never watch them.

[HawkerHurricane]

7. NBC conservative?

The Nuclear Broadcasting Corparation? The station of General Electric, the worlds biggest supplier of nuclear power plants and military equipment? Conservative? Say it isn't so!

Seriously...
Yes, NBC is conservative, and getting worse. Actually, all the stations seem to be getting worse. I don't know why. Kool aid sale?

[ochazuke]

8. Tonight's evening news

They said that the Kerry campaign "faces the very real possiblity of watching the race slip through their fingers". Later they mentioned a "new poll" that shows shrub's lead up to eight points. I can't believe that a serious news organization would focus on a single poll as meaning anything.