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As we head into 2014, the fate of the longest-running news program on television is starting to look uncertain. According to a new report from the New York Posts Claire Atkinson, NBC News chief Deborah Turness is looking to make some major cutbacks at the networks Washington D.C. bureau, where Meet The Press is produced.
Atkinson quotes one unnamed executive as saying, Instead of getting better, NBC News has been getting worse (since Turness arrived earlier this year.)Its a mess. In October, the reporter cited rumors about Morning Joes Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski adding Meet The Press hosting duties to their already full 15 hours a week on MSNBC.
Meet The Press, which used to be the perennial first place finisher on Sunday mornings over ABCs This Week and CBS Face The Nation, fell to a 21-year low over the summer and has been coming in third place behind those two show for much of 2013.
An NBC spokesperson, in a statement on Friday, said, We offered a handful of voluntary buyouts in the DC bureau back in early November. Discussions are ongoing. The spokesperson declined to elaborate. We have reached out to NBC News PR for more information.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/meet-the-press-reportedly-in-jeopardy-as-nbc-looks-to-cut-back-dc-bureau/
BeyondGeography
(39,393 posts)These people are lost.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Not much of one, but still...
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)But I doubt that will ever happen
MADem
(135,425 posts)spanone
(135,924 posts)from david gregory to joe scarborough? just take the shit off the air.
alsame
(7,784 posts)Joe and Mika are the solution, they clearly don't understand the problem.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)in the most believable fashion?'
House of Roberts
(5,197 posts)A panel of journalists, asking questions in turn, to one guest at a time. Get rid of the host controlling the debate, and shaping the conversation so much.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)the original format was the best.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)110%
MADem
(135,425 posts)Example:
HoneychildMooseMoss
(251 posts)Dr. King was certainly a very well-spoken and intelligent man.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)perches in the 21st Century.
Harry Truman was raised to be a virulent racist--it was something he had to work to overcome, it didn't come naturally to him--yet he desegregated the Armed Forces, and the Federal workforce, and he did it by Executive Order.
Addressing Truman's background, Gardner accurately depicts it as an unlikely preamble to his civil rights program. Truman was born and raised as a Missourian from a racist rural background, whose grandparents owned slaves and whose family still remembered their brutal treatment by Jayhawkers and Union soldiers during the Civil War. An anecdote from the book best illustrates this point. On June 29, 1947, President Truman stood before the Lincoln Memorial and delivered a courageous speech calling for immediate state and federal action in the area of civil rights. With unprecedented resolve, he demanded that all Americans be afforded equal treatment under the law. "When I say all Americans, I mean all Americans."[1] No American President before Truman had addressed the NAACP, and no President since Abraham Lincoln had made so forceful a demand for civil rights for all people. Yet, before delivering the speech, Truman wrote home to his sister, warning her that he would be quoting Lincoln and saying things their mother might not like. "But I believe in what I say, and I'm hopeful we may implement it."
Truman built on his historic speech before the NAACP by creating, through executive order, a blue-ribbon federal commission to investigate the recent civil rights violations and propose solutions. The product of the inquiry by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a 176-page report titled "To Secure these Rights," was the blueprint for most federal civil rights initiatives for the next thirty years. Again, Truman went beyond these actions. On February 2, 1948, he delivered to Congress the first presidential message on civil rights, presenting a comprehensive list of ten proposals based on "To Secure These Rights." Among Truman's proposals were strengthening already-existing institutions, such as making the Civil Rights Division to the Justice Department permanent; enacting federal legislation against lynching and the poll tax; settling claims of the interned Japanese-Americans; and prohibiting segregation in interstate transportation--a statutory proposal that would directly challenge the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
While Truman's omnibus civil rights bill languished in a Senate filled with powerful southern leaders and monolithic procedural roadblocks, he used other means at his disposal to salvage his civil rights program. On July 26, 1948, Truman signed Executive Orders 9980 and 9981: the first integrated the federal work force and the second integrated the United States Armed Forces. "With the stroke of the presidential pen" Truman brought about the most sweeping social change for African-Americans since the Civil War (p. 30). Remarkably, he took this step in a Presidential election year--one in which a survey of pollsters and journalists before the election had unanimously proclaimed Governor Thomas Dewey, Truman's Republican opponent, the victor. Further, as Gardner points out, Truman took each of these actions in the area of civil rights before the national civil rights movement had gained any steam.
...Gardner scants the racism that Harry Truman felt and expressed in his early life. Racial slurs can be found in many of his letters to his wife Bess. Although David McCullough describes this race prejudice, it is nowhere to be found in Gardner's book. Perhaps Gardner deemed this evidence irrelevant because it pre-dated Truman's political career. Further, such views might well be expected from a farmer in that time and place. More troubling is Gardner's disregard of Truman's brief flirtation with membership in the Ku Klux Klan during his first electoral campaign. In 1922, he was running for the position of eastern judge of Jackson County, a non-judicial, administrative office akin to a county commissioner. In a highly competitive primary in which two candidates already had Klan support, a political ally of Truman advised him to join as well--on the grounds that it was "good politics." The ten-dollar membership had been paid but upon learning the Klan was against Catholics, Truman backed out. He had commanded a predominantly Catholic artillery battery in France during the World War. Truman, thereafter, became an enemy of the Klan, having his life threatened by them on occasion.[4]
So, was he saint, or was he a sinner? Probably a little bit of both. What he was, was a product of his times. How he behaved was a step up from the paradigm of the day--he was a profile in courage. For whatever reasons, he did the right things.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)Squinch
(51,083 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)Gregory is a GOP sycophant who ALWAYS shills Repubican talking points - not to mention he ALWAYS has on more right-wing pundits for the Round Table in a "Fair & Balanced" mode.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The corporate propaganda networks must be destroyed.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Where's Carl Rove when you don't need him?
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Fucking rightwing propaganda pretending to be "news.?" Who do these chumps think they are fooling? All 4 broadcast networks should just close down their corporate controlled propaganda divisions and stick to entertainment programing. You couldn't pay me enough to waste one minute of my time watching their lying crap.
PCIntern
(25,642 posts)CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)To turn it around.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)they'll want the host positioned in the middle of the demographic their advertisers want to sell to...
God Bless DU, my news awareness is way ahead of the sunday morning shows
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Plus, a monkey makes NFL predictions.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He's the clueless asshole who insulted Nancy Pelosi. Fuck Little Luke.
Get a woman to run it, someone who isn't terribly political, an "MC" if you will, who hosts a panel of four or five journalists who take turns asking the host questions. The MC's only duties would be to provide a brief biography of the guest at the start, introduce the panel of reporter/questioners, and perhaps tell a reporter to shut up because their time was up, and break for commercials.
It's a good format, it's on the lines of how they used to run it-- they should have stuck with it.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)What a worthless show.
Cha
(298,020 posts)David Gregory? Big Mistake?!!
Rex
(65,616 posts)Report the news without hiring political actors. Make sure it is the same news seen around the world. Don't shy away from controversy.
There is NO excuse for the Left being punished and fired and the Right getting moved around among the M$M! This is what happens when there is really no unbiased news station. Not even PB is considered unbiased anymore. And the GOP would LOVE to destroy NPR.
Be the first among the corporate news cartels to go rogue!