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Brokaw, execs fuming over NBC chief’s remark
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| August 26, 2014 10:10pm
| Emily Smith
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 Britains ITV News one year ago, dropped the tactless clanger in a New York Times interview on Sunday, saying, NBC News hadnt 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 NBCs 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 NBCs top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, and her predecessors Steve Capus, Andy Lack, Neal Shapiro and Jeff Zucker.
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Jeez, what's Warren Buffet all keyed up about.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:13:37 AM PDT
by
keat
To: keat
When you get the most flak, you must be over the target................
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:16:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: keat
Asleep?! That’s an outrageous charge. NBC has been working tirelessly slamming conservatives and clearing paths for Clinton/Obama for decades.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:16:50 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: keat
In 2008, it was noted that 58% of NBC News NYC staffers were gay,lesbian, bi or transgendered.
She walked into a liberal circus, and the circus freaks don’t want any change.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:17:24 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Q)
To: keat
I like this line: Her asleep comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBCs top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams Top journalists my a55
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:18:48 AM PDT
by
tje
To: keat
You can tell when the truth hits liberals
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:19:01 AM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(Michael Brown was the attacker . . . just like Thugvon. Second verse, same as the first)
To: keat
One network insider fumed, Turness is making enemies. Her asleep comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBCs top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, and her predecessors Steve Capus, Andy Lack, Neal Shapiro and Jeff Zucker. But, she's right. Maybe they should be upset.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:22:06 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: keat
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:22:40 AM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:24:09 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
To: keat
To: keat
Content, no objectivity, no ratings, no agenda, yes.
5.56mm
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:26:25 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: keat
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:26:58 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: keat
I hope Brokaw is pissed as I am when I have to hear Tom Brokaw’s American Story on our local Clear Channel every day.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:27:56 AM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: keat
'That's a LIE! we've been asleep for 30 years!'
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:28:11 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: keat
Curious that Brokaw would be ‘apoplectic’ since he is one of those who advocates that it is the media's responsibility to vet national candidates.
But, he is also the one who was in agreement with Charlie Rose the weekend before the 2008 election when they both concluded ‘we know little about Obama, what he reads, what his character is’.
Rather duplicitous of Brokaw.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:28:22 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: tje
Sadly, Brokaw and Williams are NBC's top journalists.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:29:38 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: tcrlaf
Have you not learned that diversity is more important than competency?
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:30:07 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: keat
Does she think they aren’t politically biased ENOUGH?
“News organizations” these days are a f|_|ck1ng joke!
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:31:04 AM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: keat
Asleep my butt. They are comatose if you ask me.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:34:41 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: keat
They are not asleep!
The are comatose.
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posted on
08/27/2014 10:37:24 AM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(We have a rogue government in Washington)
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