NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence?



Clinton, Bush supporters say opinions offered on MSNBC compromise news reporting on NBC




DAVID BAUDER
AP News

May 26, 2008 07:41 EST

NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something.

That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News.

Through its unusual public criticism of NBC's handling of Richard Engel's interview with the president, the Bush administration struck at the soft white underbelly of the news division's co-existence with the opinionated personalities of MSNBC.

"I'm sure you don't want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the `news' as reported on NBC and the `opinion' as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines," Bush counselor Ed Gillespie wrote to NBC News President Steve Capus in a letter pointedly released to the public.

Capus said viewers are smart enough to understand the difference and that the criticism is a reflection of MSNBC's growing popularity.
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shit

seems like the little bit of indpendent news we have left, that little bit on nbc, is going to be taken away...

hope not

i wonder why we even bother anymore

The more people are hearing of what is actually is going on between the lines, the more they are going to try to get to the truth from a more reliable source. Some of us know history, and can read on the internet about Joseph Goebbel and how he wrote about the German fight for freedom,(ya no kidding, just read about his side of the story and you will understand propaganda). Welcome to what the Germans had to deal with!