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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That's not a bad thing as I thought that many of those talking heads were the most POMPOUS old wind-suckers ever to blow hard on the boobus-toobus.
I got no time for these shows. I’m at church.
The LSM is all Liberal all the time. No need to watch lefty propaganda.
Almost no one does that anymore. It's all gamesmanship -- shouting down the other person, putting words in their mouths, making up lies, hammering home one's own talking point and pretending that a question is being asked or an answer expected.
Low quality drivel. We are a nation which, in large degree, cannot really think about politics.
Ping. We have discussed this many times on the Sunday thread for which I thank you.
I used to watch them too but stopped a while back. George Stephanopolis, Bob Schieffer and David Gregory made me sick. And Fox news since 2009 had become all Romney all the time. And the same old guests week after week, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Carl Levin, John Kerry, Deval Patrick, etc. etc.
Agreed. I think Tim Russert was the last. He was liked by both sides.
I agree with your point.
Free Republic is a good place and I come here for news. Although, I don’t agree with everything that is written, I go here to be informed.
Sometimes I have gone back to the news channels if the story is breaking, but this website is still looked at.
“The core of the show has always been your Washington fix, we’re a Washington-based program. But I do think we’re adding on layers, changing the experience, making it more interesting,” he said, adding that the American people “want more than just Republicans and Democrats.”
Sounds like Gregory wants to do a light entertainment type show... They should give him one - maybe at seven o'clock - and hire a real news person for 'Meet the Press"...
Fox has become ‘the Rove channel’. I find myself watching it less and less. Even my elderly parents are becoming increasingly disgusted with it.
Yup. And I see it, sadly, on both sides of the aisle.
So now that NBCs David Gregory is on suicide watch the Sunday shows are irrelevant. Got it.
IOW....he wants to appeal to the LIV that sit on their butts watching daytime shows.
Is Chris Wallace of Fox chopped liver? He beats these 3 hacks on sone Sundays:
When I do watch FNS, its usually on my tape. We are either at church or at the beach
No one wastes time on communist propaganda any more except mindless pathetic parasites that don’t have cable or satellite or internet or nothing.
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