The Obama Broadcasting Company
Nikki Finke of the LA Weekly has this disturbing report from NBC's fall schedule announcement:
On this morning's conference call, I asked NBC what it plans to do this fall regarding what the networks are complaining privately are too many White House requests to break into primetime programming for announcements, speeches, press conferences, etc. NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios co-chairman Ben Silverman joked that the network "has shared the fall schedule" with President Obama "and he's really excited about the Winter Olympics". But behind-the-scenes the networks are annoyed by all the primetime disruptions, especially after Fox enjoyed better ratings when it decided not to carry a recent Obama event in order to run its regularly scheduled programming. Today NBC said it has "a duty to support our President without fail" and would "evaluate on a case by case basis" which White House events to carry in primetime "but as we demonstrated this year we support our President unequivaocally [sic], and we look forward to Barack Obama, our President, being back on Jay Leno." (Emphasis added)
Given that NBC Universal -- which, of course, also owns various "news" outlets -- is owned by GE, one really can't feign surprise at the network's "unequivocal" support for Obama. And as NBC continues to slide further in ratings and advertising revenue, no doubt executives are counting on White House "support" to prevent a full-scale collapse of the network. After all, NBC is "too big to fail."
Comments (12)
geoih
"but as we demonstrated this year we support our President unequivaocally [sic], and we look forward to Barack Obama, our President, ..."
Sieg Heil!
Published: May 20, 2009 9:17 AM
matt
interesting. i may be wrong on this but doesn't NBC bring us "news" as well? just wondering how unequivocal support for the president squares with the need to bring us thruthful "news"? maybe it's just me but seems like we might have a contradiction here.
Published: May 20, 2009 11:00 AM
Enjoy Every Sandwich
Ick. This brings to mind that scene from Wayne's World: "We are not worthy! We are not worthy!"
Published: May 20, 2009 11:05 AM
Arend
Nice quote, good hunting mr. Oliva! :)
Published: May 20, 2009 11:54 AM
Mac
My question is: how many are going to play the role of court historian?
I mean Kennedy got Schlessinger and J.K. Galbraith.
Published: May 20, 2009 12:38 PM
Bruce Koerber
Without coercion the choice by NBC to be a lapdog of the unConstitutional coup will lead to complete failure. Not because other media outlets are independent of the tentacles of the unConstitutional coup but rather because the stench of oppression is easily perceived by anyone who is even partially alert.
Published: May 20, 2009 3:31 PM
DixieFlatline
Related
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162009/gossip/pagesix/cnbc_sweats_obama_bashing_164608.htm
Published: May 20, 2009 7:20 PM
Andrew
the stench of oppression is easily perceived by anyone who is even partially alert.
Unfortunately, you are talking about a minority of the American people.
Published: May 20, 2009 8:55 PM
Marco Polo
"the stench of oppression is easily perceived by anyone who is even partially alert."
Unfortunately, you are talking about a minority of the American people.
But if that minority includes a lot of people with influence...
Published: May 20, 2009 9:22 PM
KP
"Today NBC said it has "a duty to support our President without fail""
When said during the Bush Regime, this was called Patriotism.
The opposite was called loony liberals, communist and unpatriotic americans...
So now we can bash a President and call ourselves patriotic and when you "support" him called liberal, communist, socialist?
This rhetoric is hilarious, all big news outlet have agendas. CNBC is currently what is being watched in the white house, they believe they can get the exclusive that Fox News did when Bush was President.
Published: May 21, 2009 5:46 AM
Bruce Koerber
Dear Andrew,
I wrote: 'the stench of oppression is easily perceived by anyone who is even partially alert.'
You wrote: 'Unfortunately, you are talking about a minority of the American people.'
Alertness is the key. Which is more powerful an alert minority or a majority in the state of latency? Be sure to give consideration to the very real possibility that the alert minority can change many of those who are in latency into the more fulfilling 'alert state of mind.'
Published: May 21, 2009 4:28 PM
C. Evans
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” Samuel Adams
Published: May 21, 2009 4:52 PM