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 ABCs World News Tonight with David Muir has overtaken NBCs Lester Holt for five consecutive quarters. NBCs 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 Departments inspector general testified before Congress about the FBIs conduct during the Hillary Clinton email probe, Holts newscast failed to mention the story.
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I wasn't born yet.
When the protagonist of the piece fit the liberal agenda, the camera would cut to Brokaw for a goodnight approving nod and smile. If the last piece featured a conservative issue, or person, Brokaw would give a disproving "harrumph". Like clockwork. Made me so mad sometimes I wanted to throw a shoe through the screen (never did).
And when did this happen, during the Obama or Bush administrations?
No, during the Trump administration.
Its all part of setting the stage.
Trust the plan!
Chet Huntley was definite center right, while David Brinkley was a sort of wry liberal who didnt trust anyone in government too much either way.. No one on the air today who compares to these two.
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