Over the past 9 years there has been a perception that many of the major new outlets, were in the bag for the democrat party. There has been much discussion about the slant that appeared to be applied to their reporting, especially when it painted the Bush administration in a less than favorable light.
In November I mentioned that it would be interesting to see how the new regime would be treated and since then there has been less debate about fairness, as it became pretty obvious that there was a “pass” given to the new white house team. Nominees were announced and the withdrawn for a number of unsavory reasons. Verbal gaffes went unchallenged when delivered by the President and Vice President.
This week, as if further evidence was needed, NBC launched one of the most obvious media versions of a bl$$job I’ve ever seen. Over two nights, they aired hour long “specials” with hard hitting investigative looks into the “Obama White House.” The glowing profiles showed the earnest, attractive, mostly white, hard working staff.
Keep in mind the cost of a network hour and that they coughed up TWO nights of this drivel. Now just to make sure you understood that THIS White House was different and of course better, NBC re-ran both hours as a two hour special on the third night. A total of four hours of network time, with Brian Williams doing a verbal version of spooning with the Obama team.
I want to stress that I’m willing to bet that ALL of the well intentioned folks shown ARE hard working and are doing so at less pay than the private sector. My source of irritation is that EVERY White House, regardless of political affiliation has been made up of the same type people, doing the same type work. BUT, having said that, do you think there is any chance NBC would have dropped to their knees and run a Lewinsky for the Bush administration as fast as they did for this group?
Now, just in case you harbor any doubt that NBC is a butt smooching, groveling news whore, consider the most recent “payoff” they received. NBC was given an exclusive interview with President Obama as part of this weeks world tour. Yep, after 3 nights of coverage you get to see Tom Brokaw serve up one softball question after another, after another on the Today show. That same interview will be replayed during the evening new with Brian Williams and of course on MSNBC all weekend. I wonder, does NBC think Obama is doing such a bad job that he needs this level of unvarnished bulls**t, or is it just they can’t control their fawning? NBC..the National Barrack Channel.