Posted on 07/10/2018 10:53:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
NBC News was for years the network juggernaut that raked in the ratings and the cash. It was also widely respected for its journalism standards. Now, the once-respected news organization is wobbling after months of self-inflicted blunders. The missteps include personnel disasters and questionable news judgments. These preventable gaffes suggest a news hierarchy at NBC that has lost its compass, operating as a misguided corporate bureaucracy and not as a journalistic service to the nation.
NBC pioneered broadcast news in the late 1920s with radio news updates from the legendary Floyd Gibbons. The network was the first to venture into television news, with nightly updates from John Cameron Swayze beginning in 1949. The “Huntley-Brinkley Report” later followed and dominated ratings. After news surges by CBC and ABC, NBC reemerged in the mid-’90s to again command the broadcast news landscape.
That leadership is now fading as ABC’s “World News Tonight” with David Muir has overtaken NBC’s Lester Holt for five consecutive quarters. NBC’s “Today” show now also trails ABC, and has lost sixteen percent of its younger demographic viewers in just the last year.
Lester Holt at first seemed to thrive in the NBC anchor chair he inherited three years ago from Brian Williams, who got launched for telling tall tales. Holt seemed overmatched, however, in his moderating of a 2016 campaign debate between Trump and Clinton. His puffy report from North Korea earlier this year in advance of the Olympics was poorly developed and came off as North Korean propaganda. NBC acknowledged that North Korean censors organized the itinerary and controlled the visuals. Recently, when the Justice Department’s inspector general testified before Congress about the FBI’s conduct during the Hillary Clinton email probe, Holt’s newscast failed to mention the story.
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[[The Once-respected]]
It’s true- NBC was respected for ONE day way back when- Can’t remember that day now
Is Me-again still on??
It was around 1971 when my father had finally had enough of Walter Cronkite at CBS. He angrily announced, to no one in particular, that Cronkite was “a g**damn communist”. Dad loved Richard Nixon. Cronkite was not a Nixon man.
We started watching John Chancellor at NBC the next day. I could never tell what Chancellor’s personal politics were (though I could once he retired and started writing opinion pieces). Tom Brokaw came in to replace him and did a pretty good job as well. But that ended after Ronald Reagan got elected and Brokaw ruined his image (with me at least) by giving a Reagan attacking interview to Mother Jones Magazine.
From that moment on it’s all been down hill and into the sewer for NBC.
In the good news-bad news category, MSNBC’s ratings fortunes have jumped in the last two years, the channel relishing its role as a leading Trump antagonist.
Or respected like back when they faked this: 
Or respected like back with they faked this: 
NBC = Nothing But Commies.
How about the interns that type in the chyron all day long?
I nearly forgot them...on the upside, I'm told they have world-class janitors and the guys who clean the windows are top-notch.
What’s the one with the car? I don’t know that one.
I remember when Brian Williams set down on LV-426 and found those eggs underneath the blue force field.
NBC, as with most of the lamestream libtard progressive media should be assigned a new hosting network: The Cartoon Channel.....
I used to write to Matt Lauer, to critique the show. I told him he was doomed when David Muir gained traction. Didn’t foresee him shooting himself in the foot, first.
They claimed that Chevy trucks exploded in collisions. They tried to demonstrate it. But it wouldn’t explode so they rigged it to do so and broadcast that. They subsequently got caught.
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