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The Once-respected NBC News is suffering from a losing streak
The Hill ^ | 07/10/2018 | BY JEFF MCCALL,

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lmao; msnbc; nbc
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To: SeekAndFind

[[The Once-respected]]

It’s true- NBC was respected for ONE day way back when- Can’t remember that day now


21 posted on 07/10/2018 11:13:38 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

Is Me-again still on??


22 posted on 07/10/2018 11:17:22 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

23 posted on 07/10/2018 11:19:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


24 posted on 07/10/2018 11:23:03 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


nice to be first?


25 posted on 07/10/2018 11:23:04 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind
October 29, 1956


26 posted on 07/10/2018 11:28:20 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: SeekAndFind
They are the last gasp of a dead technology. They're dead and they don't even know it yet. What else has died since the 1920s?



The buggy whip is also obsolete from that period. Surprisingly we may see a rebirth of it.

When America sees what the occupation media has done, there will not be enough to pass around. Get in their face screams the media. We're going to to tan your hide instead.
27 posted on 07/10/2018 11:30:11 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Do they mean repsected like back when they faked this:

Or respected like back when they faked this:

Or respected like back with they faked this:

28 posted on 07/10/2018 11:33:38 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Last I knew Today was/is produced by the news division. Explains a lot, eh?
29 posted on 07/10/2018 11:35:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

NBC = Nothing But Commies.


30 posted on 07/10/2018 11:39:03 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: Billthedrill

How about the interns that type in the chyron all day long?


31 posted on 07/10/2018 11:40:42 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
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.

32 posted on 07/10/2018 11:43:25 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind
FAKE "NEWS"

nbc

33 posted on 07/10/2018 11:47:22 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax
nbcliar_zpsb53b227a
34 posted on 07/10/2018 11:48:21 AM PDT by timestax
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To: SaveFerris; SeekAndFind

35 posted on 07/10/2018 1:09:02 PM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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To: pepsi_junkie

What’s the one with the car? I don’t know that one.


36 posted on 07/10/2018 1:17:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: 4Liberty

I remember when Brian Williams set down on LV-426 and found those eggs underneath the blue force field.


37 posted on 07/10/2018 1:18:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SeekAndFind

NBC, as with most of the lamestream libtard progressive media should be assigned a new hosting network: The Cartoon Channel.....


38 posted on 07/10/2018 1:28:09 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


39 posted on 07/10/2018 1:41:00 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: SaveFerris

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.


40 posted on 07/10/2018 2:29:51 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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