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Home Front: Politix
Trump town hall sparks behind-the-scenes fury at NBC
2020-10-16
[POLITICO] NBC has been rocked by an internal feud over its decision to host a town hall with Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
 at the same time as ABC’s Thursday event with Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
, a scheduling move that critics contend is a gift to the president after he refused to participate in a debate originally scheduled for Thursday.

The internal conflict extends to the highest levels of NBCUniversal, where MSNBC head Phil Griffin strongly disagreed with NBC News President Noah Oppenheim’s decision to unilaterally move forward with the town hall during that time slot, according to three high-ranking sources at the TV media giant.

Griffin and Oppenheim have been increasingly at loggerheads over the way the two networks present their news, with MSNBC moving more leftward in its commentary while NBC News tries to maintain a more traditional down-the-middle approach, the sources said.

"Each side thinks the other is ruining the other’s brand, and this just ripped it open," said one of the sources.

Under fire from Biden allies calling for a viewership boycott, former NBC personalities and media critics, NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde acknowledged the external and internal controversy in a written statement.
Posted by:Fred

#14  #12. Now a senior advisor to Lincoln Project is calling for lefty journalists to dox this woman.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-10-16 15:52  

#13  ..they're not liberals. You'll find liberals in the RINO herd who still think giving in to the radical Left is a winning strategy, those who purged them out of the old Jacksonian party.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-16 12:46  

#12  What's funny is they put a woman of color behind Trump and she nodded approval and thumbs upped the whole time and now she's the liberal villain of the week.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-10-16 12:01  

#11  Donald Trump debated annoying, rude Biden surrogate Savannah Guthrie.

The audience was far classier than the moderator.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-10-16 11:47  

#10  From the same nutwork that edited George Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call to give (pile on) the impression that his actions were racially motivated. F' 'em.
Posted by: Clem   2020-10-16 11:20  

#9  And they have no idea at all why a majority does not trust the media at all. Talk about tone deaf...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-10-16 10:55  

#8  NBC News tries to maintain a more traditional down-the-middle approach, the sources said.

And doing it rather poorly, if at all.
Posted by: Raj   2020-10-16 09:52  

#7  The PeaCuck Network
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-10-16 09:17  

#6  Simple question - is it going to bring in big viewership? That is all you exist for. You are not PBS/NPR. Doesn't anyone understand capitalism? Oh, right, they're fascists - everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-16 08:08  

#5  The President didn't refuse to debate, he just didn't want to do it 'virtually'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-16 07:37  

#4  AW, the good old days when we never learned about all this stuff.
Posted by: Dale   2020-10-16 03:55  

#3  ^It's what they had before Youtube.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-16 03:04  

#2  what is "television"?
Posted by: Glusort Borgia4408   2020-10-16 01:42  

#1  ..throw in Twitter, Facebook and Goggle and just maybe there will be a blood bath.
Posted by: crazyhorse   2020-10-16 01:34  

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