Posted on 05/11/2015 1:06:57 PM PDT by drewh
All of NBC’s bleeding-heart coverage of tattered American race relations – including the racial struggles of Michelle Obama – might sound awfully tinny if they don’t keep black anchorman Lester Holt in the Nightly News anchor chair.
In a new Brian Williams story at the Daily Beast, “a prominent black broadcast journalist who knows Holt” told them: “If Brian does not come back and Lester does not get the job, it’s going to get ugly. You can only imagine.”
It would seem odd for them to exile Williams and then turn to Savannah Guthrie or someone else other than Holt, but it’s interesting to note that turn might cause a racial rift.
In the new Beast piece, unnamed Williams critics are still venting:
“What if there’s a story about a presidential candidate who lied or embellished his resume?” said an NBC News veteran who, because of the sensitivity of the subject, spoke on condition of anonymity. “How do you have Brian Williams in that chair, intro-ing that story, without all of America guffawing?”
A second NBC News veteran expressed concern that the 55-year-old Williams—judging by quotes in various news stories attributed to “friends” of the anchor—might not fully grasp the gravity of his mistakes.
Indeed, Newsday’s well-connected television columnist Verne Gay recently reported that Williams was “almost certainly expecting a return to the anchor chair by this summer, his period of penance behind him...I hear he thinks a lot of the background noise is confined to the ‘industry’ or to the press, and that the rest of the world could not care less about what’s happened.”
While Williams’s attorney, Robert Barnett, “is fighting tooth and nail to get him his job back”—not negotiating a partial payout of Williams’s reported $50 million 5-year contract, according to an NBC News veteran—the anchor is likely not hearing what he needs to hear.
“It’s a tricky area,” this person said. “Sometimes a hired gun will tell you what you want to hear. If Brian’s goal is a comeback, the hired gun’s goal is a comeback. They say, ‘it won’t be pretty, but we can fix this, we can make this happen.’ They’re not going to say, ‘Look, buddy, you have got to get a grip on reality. You are gonna continue to be tabloid fodder, and if you think you’ve had it bad so far, your return to NBC is gonna be a total s--t show.’”
That last quote on “reality” was highlighed by the Daily Beast.
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/05/11/black-journo-warns-nbc-brass-keep-lester-holt-or-its-going-get-ugly#sthash.S27aLslN.dpuf
Savannah Guthrie looks like Fire Marshall Bill in drag.
How ‘bout Soledad O’Brien ? Latina, racist, Stalinist and bat$hit crazy.
Not to mention Lester Holt is more white than anything else, based on appearances.
Anchorman Clip: News Team Fight (Full Scene) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCWjo1ymhGs
NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. are all ugly. A curse on all their houses.
“As usual, no touching of the hair or face...” Anchorman 2 : Fight Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5Ug1OW5O4
Fred Savage still looks pretty young!
Al Roker: “Because he gives a cr@p.”
Who’s “Lester Holt?”
Thanks.
I lol.
Never saw that. Funny!
And that’s all he does READ
I remember the first time I saw this guy. Whoa! What a serious badass face for someone obviously READING He couldn’t even fake it. And quite frankly, he’s still as intense and plastic as from the get-go. When the Williams Fraud started, I took nbc off the taping list, and sure didn’t add it when Holt took over.
I’m just surprised any FReeper ever watches these “news” shows.....
I like to hear what they are saying, so as to have a better understanding of how the media shapes the stories with a liberal slant.
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