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The National Rifle Association has shut down production at NRATV.
The N.R.A. on Tuesday also severed all business with its estranged advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, which operates NRATV, the N.R.A.s live broadcasting media arm, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
While NRATV may continue to air past content, its live broadcasting will end and its on-air personalities Ackerman employees who included Dana Loesch will no longer be the public faces of the N.R.A. It remained unclear whether the N.R.A. might try to hire some of those employees, but there was no indication it was negotiating to do so.
The move comes amid a flurry of lawsuits between the N.R.A. and Ackerman, and increasing acrimony that surfaced after two prominent N.R.A. board members first criticized NRATV in an article in The Times in March. The separation had become inevitable: The two sides said last month that they were ending their three-decade-plus partnership.
Many members expressed concern about the messaging on NRATV becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment, Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.s longtime chief executive, wrote in a message to members that was expected to be sent out by Wednesday. So, after careful consideration, I am announcing that starting today, we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing live TV programming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/nra-nratv-ackerman-mcqueen.html
underpants
(182,274 posts)Now didn't they?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)becoming too far removed from our core message. You think...
The NRA has been the propaganda arm of the far right for decades.
Bought and paid for wh*res of the arms industry.
They have been the supporters of world wide arms dealing for decades. They have condoned wars and terrorism.
They left behind simply being a lobbyist for the 2nd Amendment long ago.
Screw em.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Not to be a RW propaganda machine.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)of that ridiculous creature, Dana Loesch.
leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)"My heart, she bleeds."
Chuuku Davis
(564 posts)show?
JDC
(10,081 posts)struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)Response to CatWoman (Original post)
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struggle4progress
(118,039 posts)Ackerman employees who included Dana Loesch -- will no longer be the public faces of the N.R.A."
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-nratv-no-more-live-programming-dana-loesch-out-20190626-z3hsgpa25fdirpl2ap5kcfmqgy-story.html
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The NRA's power over the last several decades has resided in the narrative that opposing the NRA is equivalent to screwing with Social Security: the third rail of politics. Certainly the NRA has mounted its share of political pelts, often claiming victory where none actually existed.
But now? The NRA is hemorrhaging money, and backing increasingly unpopular and untenable positions. New voters aren't hypnotized by the NRA's message, and the NRA's historical opponents have found that the battle isn't over. At all.