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CatWoman

(79,283 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 10:40 PM Jun 2019

N.R.A. Shuts Down Production of NRATV

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

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N.R.A. Shuts Down Production of NRATV (Original Post) CatWoman Jun 2019 OP
Well they blew a hole that underpants Jun 2019 #1
Hooray Me. Jun 2019 #2
Many members expressed concern about the messaging on NRATV Thomas Hurt Jun 2019 #3
I thought the NRA was initially formed to teach gun safety ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #9
Well at least we will no longer have to hear the hate screech rantings Haggis for Breakfast Jun 2019 #4
As my Dad used to say leftieNanner Jun 2019 #5
The nra had a tv Chuuku Davis Jun 2019 #6
Now Dana Loesch can sell beet juice full time. JDC Jun 2019 #7
"Now we'll use her skanky old stuff while pretending we never heard of her!" struggle4progress Jun 2019 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #8
"The Times reported that .. live broadcasting will end and on-air personalities -- struggle4progress Jun 2019 #10
They're not invincible gratuitous Jun 2019 #12

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
3. Many members expressed concern about the messaging on NRATV
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:01 PM
Jun 2019

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.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
4. Well at least we will no longer have to hear the hate screech rantings
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:02 PM
Jun 2019

of that ridiculous creature, Dana Loesch.

Response to CatWoman (Original post)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. They're not invincible
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 11:58 PM
Jun 2019

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.

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