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David Gregory's "Meet The Press" was just awesome today. The panel was terrific and well balanced (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Sep 2012 OP
Mr. "Dances with Rove"... PearliePoo2 Sep 2012 #1
You are right. More fall out from News Room? HBO may revolutionize news. grantcart Sep 2012 #2
How would HBO revolutionize news. Is it starting a free HBO news station or something?nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #11
Have you been watching News Room grantcart Sep 2012 #14
Never heard of it. If it's on HBO, most of the country doesn't get HBO. Incl. me. Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #16
That doesn't negate the possiblity that it's having an impact. Iris Sep 2012 #18
Oh, no. That's not what I meant. I'm sure the media watches it. Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #19
Oh. Yes, I see what you mean. Iris Sep 2012 #34
It has nothing to do with the rest of the country grantcart Sep 2012 #20
I honestly believe News Room has made a significant impact. FarPoint Sep 2012 #27
Carly Fiorina Laochtine Sep 2012 #33
Gregory needs to go. RedStateLiberal Sep 2012 #3
Is this a joke? Was that really the panel? DURHAM D Sep 2012 #4
Drivel Gregory needs to go. Please! n/t Greybnk48 Sep 2012 #5
You're being sarcastic, right? stopbush Sep 2012 #6
And of course, the empty chair, David Gregory Brother Buzz Sep 2012 #7
good one! renate Sep 2012 #22
Agreed! Change has come Sep 2012 #35
I agree...Tom Brokaw has a nice deep authoritarian voice Ichingcarpenter Sep 2012 #8
Repubes are still saying Obama had complete control of Congress during his first two years aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #9
I noticed that. NO ONE ever responds to that idiotic statement. Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #12
I changed the channel laundry_queen Sep 2012 #10
Newt stated the oft repeated meme that Biden was speaking to a black audience... Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #13
It's a fine balance - between telling the truth and not muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #15
I don't know Goodwin but Brokaw is not much of a truth teller. n/t Whisp Sep 2012 #24
That may be true, but he's *meant* to, in his job muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #25
So Tom Brtokaw and Thomas Freidman were supposed to balance Gingrich and Fiorina? vanlassie Sep 2012 #17
haha. I stopped watching MTP back in the run-up to Operation Shocking and Awful coalition_unwilling Sep 2012 #21
Watched Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC instead. Much better. JoePhilly Sep 2012 #23
David Gregory )R) is a MASTER - A Master Republican BrownNoser Berlum Sep 2012 #26
Which is why pratically no one watches this shite anymore.... WCGreen Sep 2012 #28
Really?!?!? SoapBox Sep 2012 #29
This was a very bad MTP segment today mojo2012 Sep 2012 #30
Well, at least I like Doris. Faygo Kid Sep 2012 #31
Candy Crowley...Moderater of one of the 2012 Presidential Debates. Change has come Sep 2012 #36
Since David Gregory took over Meet the Press it's ratings have skydived. WI_DEM Sep 2012 #32
I don't watch it anymore. Switched to This Week. nt Quixote1818 Sep 2012 #37

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
14. Have you been watching News Room
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:44 PM
Sep 2012

It may be a coincidence but after News Room started taking a laser scaple to broadcast news;

1) Chris Matthews became bolder, much like the leading charachter

2) Juan Williams called out the Romney campaign for its use of the race card on FOX

3) Meet the Press was transformed into a thoughtful fact driven discussion

The other thing that HBO did was produce and run Game Changer that showed specifically how MSNBC was having a greater impact on the McCain campaign than all of the rest of the stations combined.

At one point the adviser yells out "How do we get McCain to stop watching MSNBC?"

So to answer your question they revolutionize it by holding a mirror up to it.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
16. Never heard of it. If it's on HBO, most of the country doesn't get HBO. Incl. me.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 05:16 PM
Sep 2012

I quit paying for premium channels years ago.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
19. Oh, no. That's not what I meant. I'm sure the media watches it.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 05:38 PM
Sep 2012

But people who buy or get things sometimes forget that others do not. Most people don't buy HBO, but my friends who do are always asking if I saw this or that...they forget that HBO is not a normal station for people to get. It's a special thing.

I used to pay for HBO years ago. I loved it. But my cable/satellite just got too expensive. I ended up dropping all premiums. I miss HBO. But I don't wan't to pay...I think it's $156/year, plus tax. That's a lot of movies I can go to (and do).

Iris

(15,632 posts)
34. Oh. Yes, I see what you mean.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:01 PM
Sep 2012

We watch a lot of cable programming on DVD a year or so after it comes out. HBO is a bit more stingy with DVD releases, so I'm not sure I'll see this program either, but I'm a media junkie, so I've heard a good bit about it.

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
27. I honestly believe News Room has made a significant impact.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 06:56 PM
Sep 2012

Cable News is huge.....I rarely watch free news...or what ever it is called....

I think News Room is setting the news media bar higher than it has been in 15 years. After watching the program, the viewing public gains an expectation of accurate new reporting and getting the facts processed.

Laochtine

(394 posts)
33. Carly Fiorina
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:34 PM
Sep 2012

Made the tired lie of Keystone Pipeline would create 1 million jobs, thoroughly debunked and
no one corrected it. The cons still get a fair amount of bs time, imo.

stopbush

(24,376 posts)
6. You're being sarcastic, right?
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:20 PM
Sep 2012

- Newt Gingrich - RW idiot and liar extraordinaire

- Tom Brokaw - king of the false equivalency. "Both shidez do it."

- Thomas Freidman - name something that's ridiculous. I'll write a book saying it's not ridiculous, and people will marvel at my insight.

- Carly Fiorina - RW hack. I thought she was touring with Spinal Tap.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin (historian) - meek go-along-to-get-along so the plagerism thingee doesn't come up again

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
9. Repubes are still saying Obama had complete control of Congress during his first two years
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:29 PM
Sep 2012

according to Carly Fiorina. Gregory just sat there looking happily stupid.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
12. I noticed that. NO ONE ever responds to that idiotic statement.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:36 PM
Sep 2012

Which is why they keep SAYING it! It's infuriating.

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
10. I changed the channel
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:33 PM
Sep 2012

I had it on MSNBC for 'background noise' and then suddenly I kept hearing all kind of GOP talking points and lots of crap and I was like WTF? and I changed the channel. It was very unbalanced. It's like MSNBC is 'allowed' to have their weeknights so long as the rest of the time they 'catapult the propaganda' for the GOP.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
13. Newt stated the oft repeated meme that Biden was speaking to a black audience...
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 03:38 PM
Sep 2012

when he made the chains comment.

All the other panelists, and Gregory, were silent and let him get away with that. Are they afraid of Newt?

I tweeted a short: Newt says Biden was in front of audience of blacks. But the audience was MIXED.

I doubt anyone read it, but I tweeted, anyway. Why don't people "in the know" KNOW and SAY anything?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,150 posts)
15. It's a fine balance - between telling the truth and not
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 04:17 PM
Sep 2012

Gingrich and Fiorina are professional liars. Brokaw and Kearns Goodwin have jobs in which they're meant to communicate the truth. And Friedman doesn't care whether anything he says has any relation to reality, as long as it sells his books and the gullible praise him for 'insight'.

Think of it like the riddle with the man who always lies, and the one who always tells the truth. You can figure out what is true if you ask one side what the other would say, and then take that as a lie. Just ignore Friedman completely (which is always a good idea).

muriel_volestrangler

(101,150 posts)
25. That may be true, but he's *meant* to, in his job
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 06:34 PM
Sep 2012

I was just grasping for a way you could call it 'balanced'.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
21. haha. I stopped watching MTP back in the run-up to Operation Shocking and Awful
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 06:06 PM
Sep 2012

and haven't looked back. (My wife made me stop watching, b/c she was afraid I would throw my coffee cup through the screen or would scream incoherently so loudly that our neighbors would call the cops .

mojo2012

(290 posts)
30. This was a very bad MTP segment today
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:23 PM
Sep 2012

You'd think this was the Newt Gingrich Show. I can't believe he is a guest speaker on every network. I'm really getting annoyed with his rhetoric like he is the only one that knows the answer to everything. Everyone can see that Newt just likes to hear himself talk and I'm quite frankly tired of hearing his voice.

As far as Carly Fiorina, she was fired as the CEO at HP because she couldn't run a big company, then tried to run for the Republican Senate in CA and lost. So now, she's trying her hand in media as a FOX business commentator.

This was the most one-sided commentary with journalists who couldn't facilitate the running mouths, tippy toeing around every word so they wouldn't "offend" the guest speakers.

It was disappointing at the very least....

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