Posted on 03/16/2017 6:18:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MSNBC’s big “Trump tax return” scoop has caused friction between the cable news network and parent NBC, according to insiders.
“[MSNBC] announced it on Twitter, and [NBC] found out when [the general public] did,” said a source.
“[MSNBC president] Phil Griffin was trying to undermine [NBC News president] Noah Oppenheim. There was never a conversation. They overplayed their hand in a huge way.”
Host Rachel Maddow teased the story on Twitter, then withheld the story till later in her program, revealing in a big anticlimax that Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005. “It’s their cable network, but it’s still NBC News. [NBC] did not appreciate being kept in the dark … To hype such a big story and not really deliver is a bit embarrassing. Airing a story you’ve hyped 20 minutes into your broadcast makes it a lot less of a ‘breaking news’ story.”(continued)
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WINNING
The only scoop is the one they have to use picking up after Madcow. Geraldo Rivera breathes a sigh of relief. No longer the biggest media build-up Fail of all time!
They forgot that Madcow is much bigger than NBC.... I mean she is a female liberal football bat.
I love this story more every day.
Hey everybody: Trump paid more taxes than MSNBC, Hillary, Sanders, Obama, and Warren Buffet. I wrote to Fonzie Maddow thanking her for defending Trumps tax issue more than the Republicans ever did!.
AYYY! Thanks Fonzie Maddow! You are the coolest!
Where is the FR ‘like button?’
Madcow “vaulted” over the shark
That was so retarded.
I was surprised when she declared how much he earned and paid in taxes, after her pedantic editorializing.
She is usually fairly informed and I think very funny but, this was just plain dumb.
She had to understand she was helping Trump at some point but, maybe not....
You win the whole internet!
In a few weeks it’ll all be forgotten, buried under other fake/faux news.
LOL!
More like what’s IN the scoop.
Madcow forgot to shave its legs. LOL! Good one.
Madcow? Funny?
But it was a “ratings blowout”. Four million morons out of 330 million watched MadCow make herself look like a fool. When you’re about to screw up, make sure you have the largest audience possible.
Btw, what happened to MadCow? I miss him and his idiot car salesman brother....
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