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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Gregory's "Meet The Press" was just awesome today. The panel was terrific and well balanced
- Newt Gingrich
- Tom Brokaw
- Thomas Freidman
- Carly Fiorina
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (historian)
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)should get the fucking "hook".
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)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)I quit paying for premium channels years ago.
Iris
(15,632 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)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)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.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)It is obviously having on the impact that it is portraying, cable news.
If you are interested in its impact you may want to look at some of these threads
Google DU News Room and it has 25 pages of threads, it is a major event.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/searchresults.html?q=News+Room+DU&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com&sa=Search%21&domains=democraticunderground.com&client=pub-7805397860504090&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)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)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.
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)He's the worst host they could have on MTP. Today he just sat there and let Newt repeat the infanticide lie about Obama.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/02/nbcs-david-gregory-allows-gingrich-to-lie-about/189717
DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)Average age 65 year 2 months.
Average IQ - dull normal range
Greybnk48
(10,148 posts)stopbush
(24,376 posts)- 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
Brother Buzz
(36,213 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)Change has come
(2,372 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Almost like Brit Hume.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)according to Carly Fiorina. Gregory just sat there looking happily stupid.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Which is why they keep SAYING it! It's infuriating.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)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)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)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).
Whisp
(24,096 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)I was just grasping for a way you could call it 'balanced'.
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)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 .
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...oh.
mojo2012
(290 posts)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....
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)David Gregory is the biggest Tool this side of Candy Crowley.
Change has come
(2,372 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)I'm sure he'll be out soon.