Octopus Overlords

Grifman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:13 pm Nuts! An election denier!?!

LordMortis wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:51 pm I've already been giving up on NBC. They seem to have marching orders from somewhere up the Comcast chain.

NEW YORK (AP) — The internal furor over NBC News’ decision to hire former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor spread Monday, with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosts saying on the air that they strongly objected and wouldn’t have her on their show.

“We hope NBC will reconsider its decision,” said Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s four-hour morning show with her husband, former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough.

The comments from the hosts, who said they learned about McDaniel’s hiring through press reports on Friday, followed former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd’s public criticism a day earlier. Todd said many NBC News journalists were uncomfortable with hiring because of McDaniel’s “gaslighting” and “character assassination” while at the RNC.

There was no immediate comment on Monday from NBC News or McDaniel.

El Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:09 pm Man if Chuck freakin' Todd thinks this is too far, you know you have a problem.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:16 am Short version: McDaniel is either or liar or craven... or most probably, both.

gilraen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:53 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:16 am Short version: McDaniel is either or liar or craven... or most probably, both.

She literally removed "Romney" from her last name so Trump would like her more...

Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:18 pm Trump is undeniably more entertaining. Quiet competence is boring.

Amid a chorus of on-air protest from some of the network’s biggest stars, NBC announced on Tuesday night that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no longer be joining the network as a paid contributor.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:25 pm Well that's that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/me ... -backlash/

Amid a chorus of on-air protest from some of the network’s biggest stars, NBC announced on Tuesday night that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no longer be joining the network as a paid contributor.

Cesar Conde is Chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group. In this role, Conde has oversight of NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News NOW, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Group and NBCUniversal Local.
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Prior to Univision, Conde served as a White House Fellow for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell from 2002–2003.
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Conde serves on the board of directors of Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP). He is also a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and a Board Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:08 pm

gilraen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:53 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:16 am Short version: McDaniel is either or liar or craven... or most probably, both.

She literally removed "Romney" from her last name so Trump would like her more...

And how did that work out for her?

gilraen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:53 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:16 am Short version: McDaniel is either or liar or craven... or most probably, both.

She literally removed "Romney" from her last name so Trump would like her more...

McDaniel was born Ronna Romney on March 20, 1973, in Austin, Texas. The third of five children born to Ronna Romney and Scott Romney, the older brother of Mitt Romney,

Grifman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:50 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:25 pm Well that's that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/me ... -backlash/

Amid a chorus of on-air protest from some of the network’s biggest stars, NBC announced on Tuesday night that former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel will no longer be joining the network as a paid contributor.

Good riddance. How anyone in management at NBC thought this was good idea is beyond me.

Given the steady stream of misinformation an avid Fox News consumer is subjected to, the viewers – predominantly elderly, white and Donald Trump-supporting – are sometimes written off as lost causes by Democrats and progressives, but according to a new study, there is still hope.

In an unusual, and labor intensive, project, two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers found surprising results; some of the Fox News watchers had changed their minds on a range of key issues, including the US response to coronavirus and Democrats’ attitude to police.

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Most of the CNN switchers stuck to the length of the task, according to the study. But once it was over, and the $15 an hour was taken away, “viewers returned to watching Fox News”, Kalla said.

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:50 pm They were apparently courting trump supporters.

Kraken wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:50 pm

Given the steady stream of misinformation an avid Fox News consumer is subjected to, the viewers – predominantly elderly, white and Donald Trump-supporting – are sometimes written off as lost causes by Democrats and progressives, but according to a new study, there is still hope.

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:45 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:08 pm

gilraen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:53 am

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:16 am Short version: McDaniel is either or liar or craven... or most probably, both.

She literally removed "Romney" from her last name so Trump would like her more...

And how did that work out for her?

Trying to befriend Trump is like trying to befriend an alligator. An alligator with a 2nd grade education. And serious personality disorders. And...you know what, it's stupid. It's just stupid.

The number of partisan news outlets in the US masquerading as legitimate journalism now equals genuine local newspaper sites, researchers say, as so-called pink slime operators gear up ahead of November’s presidential election.

Pink slime sites mimic local news providers but are highly partisan and tend to bury their deep ties to dark money, lobbying groups, and special interests.

NewsGuard, which rates the quality and trustworthiness of news sites, has identified 1,197 pink slime sites operating in the US as of April 1—about as many as the estimated 1,200 real news sites operated by daily local newspapers.

“In my time at The Intercept, I’ve watched the newsroom increasingly become dominated by management and bureaucrats whose numbers continue to swell as the number of people who actually produce news dwindles,” he wrote. “While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer.