John Sununu calls major TV networks ‘hypocritical’ on convention coverage
Source: Washington Post
A leading surrogate for Mitt Romneys presidential campaign called the major television networks hypocritical for making millions of dollars from campaign advertisements but reserving only three hours for prime-time broadcasts from the Republican National Convention.
John H. Sununu, a former New Hampshire governor and White House chief of staff, said in an interview Saturday that the three major broadcast networks have become great takers and not enough givers, pointing to their decision not to broadcast from Tampa on Monday, the conventions first day.
ABC, CBS and NBC will each broadcast from the convention for one hour on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, as well as on Thursday night, when Romney will deliver his acceptance speech. The networks will give equal time to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next month.
GOP officials failed to persuade the major broadcast networks to add coverage on Monday night, although C-SPAN and the cable news networks are planning complete live coverage of the entire convention.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/john-sununu-calls-major-tv-networks-hypocritical-on-convention-coverage/2012/08/25/70b3c592-eecf-11e1-b829-786e028dccb3_story.html
Raven
(13,877 posts)I thought they LOVED the FREE MARKET & the lust for maximizing profits??? LOL!!!
monmouth
(21,078 posts)made in his lifetime. Re-playing of the moon landing would be wonderful for the generation that came after.
I would rather watch the funeral of Neil Armstrong than to watch a monkey flinging and screeching morons.
daligirl519
(285 posts)but I would rather watch 24-hour coverage of fungus growing than that Hellfest.
Cha
(296,749 posts)hellfest for you?!
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)I remember how proud of america I was. My sister was visiting our Italian relatives in Naples and they were all gathered around the tv watching it live like we in america were. They had tears in their eyes my sister said. They were all so emotional about the landing. She said everyone hugged her and she felt like Armstrong was a relative. Everyone came over and congratulated her and said she must be proud of america. Way back then that is how people reacted to america.
madokie
(51,076 posts)hence the opposition to him by them. Actually that should be hatred of him by them.
Make no mistake America can and will be great.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I like our President
thucythucy
(8,037 posts)at work. Isn't this the way Republicans want it? What would Ayn Rand say about the idea of private corporations being forced to "give" in the name of community service? Heaven Forfend!
Poor John. This is some vintage Republican whine.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Mz Pip
(27,430 posts)Suununununu always talks like he has bad gas. He's so unpleasant. He radiates unpleasant.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)You're one of the biggest "takers" on the planet, you self-aggrandizing asshole.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)"greedy". Wonder why he couldn't say the word: Greedy?
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Journeyman
(15,023 posts)as it is, the networks are simply doing what capitalists do -- making money. If Sununu has a problem with that, and thinks there needs to be more fairness in broadcasting, I'm certain there are many large groups with which he can align himself against Limbaugh and others of his ilk who seek to keep the airways exclusive and permit only considerations of the dollar to dictate content.
Blue State Bandit
(2,122 posts)just when the Paulites start interfering with the delegate count.
It'll give old Ben Ginsburg a coronary!
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)Isn't that what maximizing profit is all about? When did the Republicans become Commies!!??
totodeinhere
(13,056 posts)gavel coverage on the broadcast networks of both conventions. It was a great civics lesson. And remember that especially in these hard times no everybody can afford cable. I wish the networks would provide more coverage of both conventions.
BumRushDaShow
(128,370 posts)(meanwhile rethugs still try to defund them )
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Enjoy it! If Rmoney wins, it'll be the last year you can see anything on PBS.
BumRushDaShow
(128,370 posts)And as a sidenote, I saw today that the puppeteer who voiced Sesame Street's "Count" died. A shame that these rethugs keep trying to eliminate everything intellectual (including the CPB that produces Sesame Street) but leaves the propaganda outlets intact.
JHB
(37,152 posts)...but that would be 'communism' or regulation or one of the other things get very agitated about unless it quietly works in their favor.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)The may be commercial networks, but those airwaves are held in the public trust, so they benefit from the resources of the people. Hence they have a duty to the people.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)in the last few decades they are just proforma dog and pony shows with the primaries deciding the candidates. There's really not much reason to watch gavel to gavel unless you like partisan speechifying.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)when the nominees were actually decided on the floor and they went through multiple rounds of balloting to get a majority and you had all the various blocs of supporters going around trying to get votes for their guy.
Now, the conventions are formalities. They're just giant multi-day campaign rallies with lots of speeches supporting the already-decided nominee. "Gavel-to-gavel" coverage isn't nearly as important now.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)They became staged events, and as such ceased to be news. They are not a great civics lesson, they are an appalling display of a bankrupt culture and an ossified corrupt dysfunctional political system.
BumRushDaShow
(128,370 posts)SutaUvaca
(482 posts)Haven't actually logged in for a year and a half until now. Just needed to say Sununu is an asshole.
I keep seeing him brought on for comment by Wolf Blitzer. Sununu is an asshole. 'Nuff said.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)avebury
(10,951 posts)make a profit. If the Republicans want full time TV coverage of their convention then the need to get Adeslon and the Koch to put a crowbar to their wallets and pony up the money to buy the air time.
niyad
(113,020 posts)maybe full coverage of the platform committee hearings? reallly?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)<iframe width="420" height="315" src="
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(52,147 posts)due to supposedly existing to cover news for the public and then they behave like this. They should be covering gavel to gavel.
julian09
(1,435 posts)They want to force people to watch, take their choice away,and not let people see what they want to see.
To me their lies and distortions are bad enough in 30 second and 60 second ads; I'm NOT WATCHING hours at a time, actually none.
There is no news, there, we already know who will be the Presidental and Vice Presidental candidates.
They intend on SPENDING BILLIONS, in ads let them begin.
dsc
(52,147 posts)these are news and deserve to be covered, as is our convention.
julian09
(1,435 posts)dsc
(52,147 posts)they are given licenses worth literally billions of dollars yearly and all they are asked for in return is to inform the public. I hardly think that is too much.
Deb
(3,742 posts)Jeez, just like a bunch of little kids...
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)brewens
(13,536 posts)a lot more money, by limiting TV coverage? Is doing this kind of thing usually a problem for Sununu?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)Hmmm...with the schedule change to beginning Tuesday wonder how that's all going to work.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)benld74
(9,901 posts)Sununu angered some when he was the only governor of a U.S. state not to call for repeal of the controversial UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 ("Zionism is Racism" . He later reversed his position on this issue and supported the Republicans' pro-Israel 1988 platform.[11]
As White House Chief of Staff, Sununu reportedly took personal trips, for skiing and other purposes, and classified them as official, for purposes such as conservation or promoting the Thousand Points of Light.[16] The Washington Post wrote that Sununu's jets "took him to fat-cat Republican fund-raisers, ski lodges, golf resorts and even his dentist in Boston."[16] Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel.[17] Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security.[18] Sununu became the subject of much late-night television humor over the incident.[16] Sununu worsened the situation shortly afterwards when, after leaking rumors of financial difficulties in his family, he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine, spending $5,000 on rare stamps.[19] Sununu then sent the car and driver back to Washington unoccupied while he returned on a corporate jet.[19] In the course of one week, 45 newspapers ran editorials on Sununu, nearly all of them critical of his actions.[20]
Sununu repaid over $47,000 to the government for the flights on the orders of White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, with the help of the Republican Party.[21] However, the reimbursements were at commercial rates, which are about one-tenth the cost of the actual flights; one ski trip to Vail, Colorado alone had cost taxpayers $86,330.[22]
CTyankee
(63,882 posts)I just hope we get some juicy stories out of Tampa on this!
Tanuki
(14,913 posts)I'm sure the Koch brothers are ticked that their wealth did not purchase what they expected. Maybe they will do as Rupert Murdoch did and buy their own network so they can float whatever delusions they please and cover whatever interests them.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)I've watched him a few times lately, and he is one snorting, insane horse's ass. He seems to get angry and starts foaming at the mouth as he ARGUES back with the host. What an ass wipe. Where did they pull this dumb ass out from under?
truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)that helps you understand, John Sununu. How about the ultra-rich, who pay the least percentage of their income in taxes?
The Wizard
(12,532 posts)the Mighty Fabad has to say.
jmowreader
(50,527 posts)We don't need to be "introduced" to the candidates. The Democratic candidate is the incumbent president and the Republican candidate has been in full-on general-election campaign mode since the last not-Romney fell.
We already know who's going to be on both tickets in November, unless Romney winds up doing the perp walk in front of the SEC between now and then.
We can pretty much figure out what both campaigns' platforms will be: Obama's will be "finish what we started" and Romney's will be red meat for the teabaggers--repeal everything Obama did, ban abortion, cut spending on everything but the army, and cut taxes.
The only reason anyone outside the hardcore political junkie class and high-school history students who have to write papers about the conventions for class would even watch anything but the acceptance speeches at either convention, is if the Republicans shoot Romney tomorrow night and a brokered convention ensues. Otherwise, all the newsworthy things that could have happened already have.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)He's a bought-out hack, nothing more, nothing less.
ailsagirl
(22,883 posts)karynnj
(59,495 posts)alp227
(32,002 posts)I went to TVTango.com and don't see that.
In 2000, they reduced the time to 9 hours. In 2004, it was reduced to 4 hours and in addition for the first time ABC, NBC, and CBS did not do the typical puff piece biography they always did that essentially tried to make the candidate's life lead to his nomination by his party. It was a struggle to do this in 2000 for Bush, but Kerry's lifetime of service and accomplishment would have made this simple. (CNN and MSNBC both did stories JUST on Kerry's 1971 protests, very commendable, but the ONLY controversial part of his life.
alp227
(32,002 posts)karynnj
(59,495 posts)I WISH they would have given Kerry 9 hours. He used the 3 as best he could, but 9 hours could have covered his life a lot better. ( That could have nipped the Republican accusations that he did nothing in the Senate in the bud. In fact, he was a REAL policy wonk - unlike Ryan, who is just an ideologue. There were reasons the Democrats years before he ran made an exception to let him sit on the Finance committee in addition to the SFRC and Commerce - when there was a Democratic rule that a Senator could have only 2 of a list of high powered committees.)
As to Romney, given that most of his life can't be talked about - at least by us (or per Romney) it would be no fair - I assume they want the extra 6 hours to bash Obama.
starroute
(12,977 posts)It's been a long time since they allowed anything that could pass for actual news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
The MFDP sent its elected delegates by bus to the convention. There they challenged the right of the Mississippi Democratic Party's delegation to participate in the convention, claiming that the regulars had been illegally elected in a completely segregated process that violated both party regulations and federal law, and that furthermore the regulars had no intention of supporting Lyndon B. Johnson, the party's presidential candidate, in the November election. They therefore asked that the MFDP delegates be seated rather than the segregationist regulars.[2]
The Democratic Party referred the challenge to the Convention Credentials Committee. The MFDP delegates lobbied and argued their case, and large groups of supporters and volunteers established an around-the-clock picket line on the Boardwalk just outside the convention, which garnered considerable publicity.
The Credentials Committee televised its proceedings, which allowed the nation to see and hear the testimony of the MFDP delegates, particularly the testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer, who gave a moving and evocative portrayal of her hard brutalized life as a sharecropper on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta and the retaliation inflicted on her for trying to register to vote.
After that, most knowledgeable observers thought the majority of the delegates were ready to unseat the regulars and seat the MFDP delegates in their place. But some of the all-white delegations from other southern states threatened to leave the convention and bolt the party (as they had done in previous years) if the regular Mississippi delegation was unseated, and Johnson feared losing Southern support in the coming campaign against Republican Party candidate Barry Goldwater.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,936 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,009 posts)Bring it up at the next shareholder meeting.
oldsarge54
(582 posts)Republican politicians angry for corporations putting profits over the consumer's needs? Now I am more likely to believe that THAT is a sign of the end of times.
tooeyeten
(1,074 posts)mwooldri
(10,299 posts)In the days when broadcast TV reigned supreme... and with analog cable in its infancy... for networks to run full coverage would be expected.
Now we have digital terrestrial TV, lots of choice on cable or satellite (note: didn't say all of it was good though) and the Internet... anyone who really wants to watch the full convention can.
The broadcasters have moved on with the times. Appears Mr. Sununu has not.
EC
(12,287 posts)but I think the campaign needs the ad time more than the network needs them. Don't they get a discounted rate?
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)Cha
(296,749 posts)Big Mouth, "Is PObama American enough(some such drivel..I can't keep up), Sununu.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)like he has recently. It's going to get him and Romney in trouble.
MADem
(135,425 posts)The old pervert can run his mouth all he wants--who's going to listen? Answer--NO ONE.
He's stuck sucking up to CSPAN, the entity some Republicans wanted to axe. Deal with it, putz--RMoney is more boring than the WORST sitcom.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)SILVER__FOX52
(535 posts)to find this idiot !
BootinUp
(47,053 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And what is it with republican cry babies?