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[-] [email protected] 74 points 5 months ago

For fuck's sake. This is ridiculous.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

But, but, but our false appearance of neutrality!/ S

Choosing a point in the center of two other arbitrary points will never be neutral or balanced. At this point they have been for a long time and just confirmed that they are still a propaganda outlet.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago

It's not like I can watch NBC less.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago

Honestly, this hiring decision could be charitably described as “indefensible”.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

This is 100% about ratings and business. This news article is free publicity for NBC to have this woman probably talk trash about the coming election and recruit ”moderate” Republican viewers.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

This is 100% about corporate news not giving a shit about truth and democracy. Journalistic ethics are dead. The logical next step is to burn the Reichstag.

Not disagreeing, just sharpening the point.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Jesus upjumping Christ on a crutch, NBC. When did you lose the entirety of your fucking mind?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

When they found out how good Trump was for ratings was really the last nail in today's coffin, but I'm sure they have more nails.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Carrie Budoff Brown left Politico to join NBC.

Hey, unrelated, member when that guy ran CNN after the right-wing asshole bought it, and his big splash was letting trump shit on his face at a “town hall”? And he got kicked to the curb about 10 minutes later?

That was awesome.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Just another revolving door Friday. They* hired Jen Psaki two years go, who was Obama’s & Biden’s political advisor & press secretary.

The capitalist class owns & controls corporate media and effectively controls the state. It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.

Which is why we need to reinvent the labor media that we lost.


*They meaning Comcast, which owns MSNBC and NBC News.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Did Jen spread lies about a 'stolen election'?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I don’t see how that’s relevant. The point is that they are all lying to us all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

But actually, yes, she has. Jen Psaki Defends Successor’s ‘Stolen Election’ Tweets Before Her Last Day as White House Press Secretary

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't see why that matters?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Hiring a political shill and hiring a political shill that supports insurrection are two different things.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's right and clean up the government/reinvent the system too.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

She is a Romney of course she is going to get hired by a large corporation they none of them care about any of us.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

CNBC and especially Jim Cramer were rooting for Trump back in 2019/2020.

This is just mask off at this point.

The owners are Billionaires who don’t want to pay taxes. CNBC has been pining for the destruction of Social Security and “eNtiTLeMenTs” for over 4 years now.

Fuck NBC.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's been far longer than that, Rosebud (movie reference to one I'm about to mention), you may want to search Joseph Pulitzer, Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

One of those relationships where everyone sucks. Watch her views on The Fourth Estate magically evolve seemingly overnight.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics at NBC News, said in a memo to staff.

During her time as chair, McDaniel repeatedly attacked the press, which has become increasingly popular in Republican circles over the last several years as Donald Trump demonizes journalists and news institutions.

McDaniel was involved in a phone call in 2020 to pressure Michigan county officials not to certify the vote from the Detroit area, where Joe Biden had a commanding lead.

NBC’s hiring of McDaniel, however, plays into a recent trend at the network’s outlets, which has seemingly softened its stance on Trump as he inches toward the Republican nomination for president.

Earlier this month, CNBC hosted Trump for a lengthy phone interview in which the network’s anchors allowed him to peddle lies and conspiracy theories on air without scrutiny.

Star host Rachel Maddow, who has said carrying Trump’s lies on the air is dangerous, even objected to the network broadcasting a recent speech from the presumptive Republican nominee, calling it “irresponsible.”


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[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Could be entertaining to watch the MAGATs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Haven't watched NBC or Fox news for over a decade. I find it annoying the Edge browser home page at work is pretty much NBC from Microsoft

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can customise that home page and the news hover to show nothing, which is what I always do.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Could be their version of Fox's Jessica Tarlov, a punching bag.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Just another elitist scumbag.

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