GE Chief Pulls Plug On Paris, Brian Williams Helps - Also Tucker loses 4PM Show

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

Late last week, it appeared NBC locked up Paris Hilton to a $1 million deal. But sources tell The New York Post that General Electric CEO & Chairman Jeff Immelt personally pulled the plug.

"This is the latest in a series of p.r. debacles for NBC - Imus and the Virginia Tech shooter tapes were the others," said a highly placed source. "He had to weigh in."

The Post also reports "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams had been lobbying both network and GE corporate honchos to back off Paris coverage.

NBC RESPONDS: NBC News spokesperson Allison Gollust responds to the story: it is "patently, unequivocally, totally false. He (Immelt) did not have a single conversation with anyone at NBC about Paris Hilton, and Brian Williams never communicated with him about it."

Wow - GE and NBC actually showing some integrity! Also

Tucker Carlson's 4pm ET show is being scrubbed, TVNewser has learned. Sources say MSNBC wants to emphasize a live edition of Tucker at 6pm.

[BeyondGeography]

1. I won't breathe easy until we're Tucker-free

[patricia92243]

5. Amen!!

[goclark]

7. Tucker Free! ~ Please get rid of his ugly face

It's almost 24 -7.

Please get some truth back into NEWS and get rid of Tucker!

:bounce:

[Jim__]

2. I was hoping the scrubbing of Tucker was complete.

I guess something is better than nothing.

[MADem]

3. Integrity? My ass. They're huge beneficiaries of the military- industrial-congressional complex

GE...We Bring Good Wars To Life!

Don't be CONNED by them...they're evil incarnate. They throw you an Olberman bone every so often, but they're robbing you blind via your tax dollars at work...for them.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=16

CEO: Jeffrey R. Immelt
Military contracts 2005: $2.2 billion
Defense-related contributions in the 2004 election cycle: $220,950*

The world’s largest company by market share, General Electric’s revenues in 2003 totaled $134.2 billion. GE was run until 2001 by “Neutron” Jack Welch, who made it a matter of principle to lay off 10% of his workers per year.

General Electric makes household appliances, plastics, water treatment systems, lighting, medical equipment, and commercial financial services. It also makes aircraft engines and nuclear reactors, and keeps criticism at bay with its ownership of media giants NBC, CNBC, Telemundo, Bravo, and, in partnership with Microsoft, msnbc.com. GE’s recent partnership with Vivendi added Universal Studios, USA, Trio and Sci-fi cable channels to its $43 billion media empire.

General Electric is one of the world’s top three producers of jet engines, supplying Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other military aircraft makers for the powering of airplanes and helicopters.

The “war on terrorism” has seen GE’s military contracts rise substantially. But the company’s “defense” side has been doing well for a while. GE and other military contractors got a big boost under the Clinton administration from Presidential Directive 41 which stated that it was the job of US diplomats to promote arms sales abroad in order to safeguard American jobs; this directive tied the promotions of diplomats to how effectively they hocked US armaments.

GE has designed 91 nuclear power plants in 11 countries, yet its nuclear reactors around the world have a fatal flaw. In the event of a nuclear meltdown, there is a 90 percent chance that radiation from GE-designed reactors would be discharged directly into the atmosphere. While the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is aware of the problem, it continues to license GE nuclear reactors....General Electric has been involved in so many cases of fraud that in the 1990s the Pentagon's Defense Contract Management Agency created a special investigations office specifically for the company....



Read the whole thing. You won't be so thrilled when you turn on the Peacock after you've digested it, is all I'm saying....

[RamboLiberal]

8. We know all that - but hey they showed one shred of integrity

I do think our attention to what they are running is starting to pay off a bit.

[MADem]

9. Nawww, they threw you a BONE.

They're still a Top Ten Contractor, they're raking it in....and their media arm is there just to keep us dumb slobs in line, believing that they give a shit, and reasonably sated.

[depakid]

4. Not integrity- just acknowledgement

People are growing VERY sick and tired of the Paris coverage.

Tucker, on the other hand is just a bore.

[rurallib]

6. I see no mention of hiring another Olbermann-like anchor

Donohue still available. Maybe give Amy Goodman a show? Naomi Klein? The best they can do is one Tucker a day? And he is a dumb Tucker. Hope he brings the bow tie back.

[KoKo]

10. Please Angels...let David Schuster get Tucker's SPOT and PROTECT HIM

from the EVIL CORPORATISTS who will try to "TURN" DAVID their WAY!

Spreading ((((Good VIBES)))) for Schuster that he gets this job as the Repugs GO DOWN!