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The Problems With Meet The Press Are Not Unique To Meet The Press
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| September 7, 2014
| Derek Hunter
Posted on 09/07/2014 6:40:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
My theory is that Sunday morning news shows were popular because it was the only time during the week that you could hear a conservative speak. Once Fox News arrived, viewers didn’t have to wait until Sunday.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:28:46 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Kaslin
The problem is not just the news shows. It is every channel on the list. No news on the news channels. No history on the history channels. No Sci-Fi on the Sci-Fi channel.
Everything is a "reality" show, where dysfunctional idiots curse at each other. Just like the "news" programs, where dysfunctional idiots have shouting matches. Top it off with 23 minutes of ads per hour and TV is unwatchable without a DVR to skip ads and Carl Rove.
TV is the only industry where the customer is always wrong.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:32:17 AM PDT
by
SpeakerToAnimals
(I hope to earn a name in battle)
To: Kaslin
Luke Russert knows nothing beyond what he reads from his daily WH talking points memo. That acorn fell a LONG way from the tree.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:36:08 AM PDT
by
JPG
("So sue me". OK, we will.)
To: baltiless
I agree. I don’t watch any of them for the same reason. The only one I do catch once in awhile is Greta Van Susteren and I can only watch so much of it.
I learn absolutely nothing from them and just can’t stand to watch them.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:39:00 AM PDT
by
sheana
To: Kaslin
I’ve been saying for years that there’s no news on the news. I actually turn on al Jazeera sometimes because they’re doing an actual news story with cameras on the ground, not chatting about “newsy” stuff in a studio near Times Square.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:42:24 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: headstamp 2
Like button!!
I was about to write the same thing...tired of sound bite politics.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:43:06 AM PDT
by
conservaKate
( I grow weary of the goobers in the Republican party. (thanks Chris))
To: SpeakerToAnimals
It started with no music on MTV.
To: Henry Hnyellar
I missed that one. Thanks.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:48:20 AM PDT
by
SpeakerToAnimals
(I hope to earn a name in battle)
To: Kaslin
The biggest problem is they dont do news anymore; they do entertainment masquerading as news. I don't find "hard core welfare-state activism" to be especially entertaining.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:52:02 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
To: Kaslin
Have always objected to the “Meet The Press” premise that the news media’s opinion is important.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:54:02 AM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: sheana
Actually, I think Megyn Kelly does an excellent job on Fox.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:55:45 AM PDT
by
flaglady47
(The useful idiots always go first)
To: cloudmountain
I am old enough to remember Meet the Press with
Lawrence Spivak. My parents and I watched it almost every Sunday. There was very little fluff. Tough questions were asked of the guests. We were also regular viewers of GE College Bowl with Robert Earle. Two high quality shows.
I still have the GE College Bowl list of 100 books to read.
I think I have read about 30.
To: junta
Wills and Krauthammers lucrative jobs are to sit there and put an intellectual sheen on the libtards propaganda. Democrat spews lunacy, they take it seriously, then conservatives end up debating lunacy.Correct. That is why I never watch it. They are not honest.
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posted on
09/07/2014 8:35:56 AM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
To: Kaslin
Todd's going to be fine as long as he asks his own questions. Input before the show - brainstorming - all fine. But when he's on air he's got to be his own man.
A problem these shows have is the 'behind the scenes' thug progressive... the type NO ONE would like or listen to - wants to 'feed questions' to the on air person. It's why David Gregory looked like an idiot - a man who didn't understand the stuff he was asking. He probably didn't. No one wants to watch an off air ventriloquist control his on air dummy
If Todd can 'do a Russert' and insist on asking his own questions this just might work out...
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posted on
09/07/2014 8:51:55 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
To: Maine Mariner
I am old enough to remember Meet the Press with Lawrence Spivak. My parents and I watched it almost every Sunday. There was very little fluff. Tough questions were asked of the guests. We were also regular viewers of GE College Bowl with Robert Earle. Two high quality shows.
I still have the GE College Bowl list of 100 books to read. I think I have read about 30.Where we lived we couldn't get NBC, too many hills in the way. Now giant towers let ALL the noise in.
To: baltiless
I stopped watching the Sunday morning shows almost 15 years ago. I stopped watching the cable news channels maybe a year and a half or so ago.
Its a little embarrassing that I watched that stuff regularly for so long.Believe me, I can relate. My daughter was shocked to learn that I used to listen to "News Radio assiduously up until she was about 4.
She grew up seeing me treat news reporting as a commercial for something I wouldnt buy on a bet. Which is what it is.
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posted on
09/07/2014 4:55:25 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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