Posted on 08/27/2014 10:13:37 AM PDT by keat
NBC News president Deborah Turness had to apologize after infuriating top execs and talent by announcing the network news organization had been asleep for 15 years.
Turness, who came to the job from Britain’s ITV News one year ago, dropped the tactless clanger in a New York Times interview on Sunday, saying, “NBC News hadn’t kept up with the times in all sorts of ways, for maybe 15 years . . . I think the organization had gone to sleep.”
Sources tell us Tom Brokaw, managing editor and anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News” from 1982 until 2004, Turness’ predecessor Steve Capus (NBC News president from 2005 to 2013 and now executive producer of “CBS Evening News”) and CNN chief Jeff Zucker “are apoplectic” over Turness’ remark.
One network insider fumed, “Turness is making enemies. Her ‘asleep’ comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBC’s top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, and her predecessors Steve Capus, Andy Lack, Neal Shapiro and Jeff Zucker.”
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Hear, hear!
“NBC has been working tirelessly slamming conservatives and clearing paths for Clinton/Obama for decades.”
NBC has done its job well in getting the Marxist elected POTUS twice. They certainly must feel proud.
They’re mad ‘cuz they got woke up from a dreamless sleep.
Wow a British telling it like it is
This comes days after she attacks her most credible news show (by mainsteam journalists’ perspective) a snooze-fest, suggesting she’d want something more like The View.
Is “Turness” a female “Turner”?
Catfight. Color me interested. Not.
She’s one of THEM. Her complaint is that NBC News isn’t enough like the View.
She’s one of THEM. Her complaint is that NBC News isn’t enough like the View.
Where did you learn that bit about NBC News being dominated by gays?
” I have to hear Tom Brokaw’s American Story on our local Clear Channel every day”
Are you being held prisoner????
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Jeez, what’s Warren Buffet all keyed up about.
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I think Brokaw has cancer.
Indeed a sad commentary on the level of talent at NBC. Hundreds of bodies milling about at NBC News, and hardly a brain to be found among the lot.
NBC doesn’t have any “top journalists”.
“Her ‘asleep’ comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBC’s top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams.”
TOP journalists: Brokaw and Williams .......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
I suspect that isn't what she meant, though...
Tom Brokaw does look like Buffett.
“There is talk of layoffs”
That is whta this is about, they know they have undermined America for decades and are worried about losing their high paying jobs. They do not do the basics in reporting.
BTW has anyone at NBC (same for the other networks) asked obama where he was on 9-11-12 when Benghazi was going on? Where the survivors are?
Basic questions like why is the economy so bad year after year with you in charge. The corruption that is obamacare?
None that I can recall.
Truth hurts..a lot.
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