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The death of the Sunday shows (partisan hacks chatting up sycophants or interrogating conservatives)
politico.com ^ | 4/21/14 | Dylan Byers

Posted on 04/21/2014 7:25:34 PM PDT by cotton1706

The Sunday morning shows once occupied a sacred space in American politics.

Today, many influential Washington players can’t even remember the last time they watched.

The public affairs shows — “Meet The Press,” “Face The Nation,” and “This Week” — used to set the agenda for the nation’s capital with their news-making interviews and immensely influential audience. Now the buzz around the shows is more likely to center on gossipy criticism about the hosts, notably Meet The Press’s David Gregory, whose fate has become an incessant subject of conversation, most recently in a Washington Post story on Monday. Meanwhile, fans complain about the recurrence of familiar guests — Sen. John McCain again? — who simply relay party talking points that often go unchallenged.

“For political junkies and those who just want to catch up the Sunday shows still are relevant but they’re not the signature events they once were,” Tom Brokaw, the NBC News veteran who briefly moderated “Meet The Press” in 2008, said in an interview. “I first appeared on ‘Meet The Press’ during Watergate and it was a secular mass in Washington; the faithful never missed it.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: facethenation; meetthepress; thisweek
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To: cotton1706

These shows are a wasteland. The Dems now use entertainment and comedy shows to reach their LIVs. Conservatives are mostly turning to the Internet.


21 posted on 04/21/2014 8:02:00 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: cotton1706
To try and spice-up his lousy ratings, David Gregory is adding an animal segment to Meet the Press. Tune in this Sunday to Meet the Elephants.
22 posted on 04/21/2014 8:14:36 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: cotton1706

DAVID BROOKS: And, let’s face it, Obama, whether deservedly or not, does have a — I’ll say it crudely — but a manhood problem in the Middle East: Is he tough enough to stand up to somebody like Assad, somebody like Putin? I think a lot of the rap is unfair. But certainly in the Middle East, there’s an assumption he’s not tough.

Was that off the wall coming from a liberal MSM or Face the Nation lapdog rino?


23 posted on 04/21/2014 8:24:20 PM PDT by Calusa (Were going to have that person arrested.....that did the video, said Hillary Clinton.)
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To: cotton1706

I never watch them, can’t bear it, if anything interesting happens it will show up here on FR, and that doesn’t happen as often as I would expect, their just empty suits and chairs as far as I’m concerned.


24 posted on 04/21/2014 8:25:50 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: cotton1706

None too soon. One less propaganda outlet for the left.


25 posted on 04/21/2014 8:27:09 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: moviefan8

In two or three minutes on the Internet you can scan the news and decide what to focus on, rather than sit down for an hour and see what the MSM think is important. And on FR, NRO, Breitbart, Media Watch, you can see the stories that the MSM ignore.


26 posted on 04/21/2014 8:28:08 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Correction: I did not mean Media Watch, I meant Newsbusters.


27 posted on 04/21/2014 8:29:44 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: cotton1706

Politico.com. Let’s barbeque morons, for sunday repast. Or abalone...


28 posted on 04/21/2014 8:34:15 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: upchuck; Alas Babylon!; cotton1706; All
Is this the Death Neale, of the chattering Class of Sunday
Morning Liberal/Establishment buffoons? ..news @ 11.
sorry, I repeated myself.

29 posted on 04/21/2014 8:48:13 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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To: Steve_Seattle; Alas Babylon!; upchuck; Biggirl; carriage_hill; All
"And on FR, NRO, Breitbart, Media Watch, you
can see the stories that the MSM ignore."
true..and Conservatives; are solidly what, 40±% of the electorate/possible viewer..40%±
Hugh % segment not viewing these DNC propaganda rags shows.."just ripe for the picking"
saw Laura Ingraham, being pick-up by ABC..how many others maybe picked soon.
C'mon RUSH!; the waters, are warming up!

30 posted on 04/21/2014 9:07:16 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. Cattlegate..0'Caligula / 0'Reid? ;-)
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To: Steve_Seattle
In two or three minutes on the Internet you can scan the news and decide what to focus on, rather than sit down for an hour and see what the MSM think is important. And on FR, NRO, Breitbart, Media Watch, you can see the stories that the MSM ignore.

Not just ignore, they'll go all in lying for the democrat party. Agreed, it's much easier to get the news and opinion online. I just hope the lame stream media continues to double-down on what is good for progressives and the democrat party so all Americans continue to see just how corrupt they, along with their criminal party, have become.

CGato

31 posted on 04/21/2014 9:11:57 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: cotton1706

I gave up on the Sunday shows a long time ago. Around the mid-1990s. Just couldn’t stomach the 100% liberal idiocy. By the early-2000s, I’d completely tuned out on all the non-Fox cable-news channels. Around 2010, I gave up on FoxNews, when it became the Rove/Romney network.

Now I don’t really watch much of anything anymore. Rarely even listen to talk-radio, and beyond FR, I don’t even bother much with other internet sites. Funny, because I used to be such a news/politics junkie, for several decades, going back to the Reagan era. But 2010-2012 really killed all that. The combination of the the GOP-E pushing Romney along with its backstabbing of Palin and the tea-party just killed my decades-long interests in news and politics, along with the media that serves it up.


32 posted on 04/21/2014 9:12:10 PM PDT by greene66
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To: cotton1706

i’d watch a show called “beat the press”.


33 posted on 04/21/2014 9:58:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I watch “Meet the Depressed” just to see if Gregory will explode.


34 posted on 04/22/2014 12:08:00 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: cotton1706
The very last Sunday morning show I watched was See-BS' "Face the Nation" where Ollie North was being viciously savaged with lies by Bob "The Stiff" Schieffer.
It made my blood boil.
At the end of his performance Schieffer offered his hand, but to Ollie's credit Schieffer got snubbed.
35 posted on 04/22/2014 4:06:13 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
We are a nation which, in large degree, cannot really think about politics.

Politics is now sport. It's all about one team winning and the other team losing. Politics is no longer about what is best for the country, if it ever was.

Audiences have left TV news because they can go online and participate in the sport. Browse a few comments on articles on Politico. Just high def stupidity..

36 posted on 04/22/2014 4:15:08 AM PDT by IamConservative
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