Sigh. Et tu, MSNBC?
"MSNBC host Chuck Todd admitted Thursday that a miniseries on Hillary Clinton slated to air on NBC has been a "nightmare" for the network's news division."
"The miniseries, which will star Oscar nominee Diane Lane playing the role of the former first lady, has drawn increased scrutiny as of late after the Republican National Committee demanded that the network pull the production or risk losing the right to air GOP presidential debates in 2016. Despite the network's insistence that the miniseries is under the purview of the entertainment division, Todd, the political director of NBC News, expressed frustration."
"The entire NBC family, Todd said, will be conflated with the program."
"This is why this miniseries is a total nightmare for NBC News because, you know, we know there's this giant firewall, we know we have nothing to do with it, we know that we'd love probably to be as critical or whatever it is going to be, if it comes out," Todd said." But there’s nothing we can do about it.”
"And we’re going to only own the negative,” he continued. “Whether it’s negative because the Clinton people are upset that it’s too tough on them, or negative because the Republicans think it’s this glorification of her—no matter what, only we are going to own it, because people are going to see the peacock and they see NBC and they see NBC News and they think: ‘Well, they can’t be that separate.’”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/chuck-todd-hillary-clinton-miniseries-total-nightmare-for
I don't get why Todd 'would love to be critical of it' has he already seen it? I don't see that this is any nightmare of anything other than a nightmare of his own making. Cal it psychosomatic nightmare-only in his own head.
How about Robert Gibbs? Is this the only way he can be taken seriously in the press-by always taking the Republican side of any argument? If anyone complains about the miniseries so what? What's the big deal about timing-the election is 3 years away. Is it that no network can ever do anything about a lviing politician because their opponents will whine about it?
If I wanted this kind of bedwetting from tv anchors-excuse my French but I don't have a term more appropriate for mixed company on this one, I mean just give me a break- I'd watch CNN. I'd love to hear Todd worry as much about the weak recovery, the millions of Americans out of work, and the failure of Congress to fix the sequester rather than whining about being tarred by association by Reince Priebus. Who cares? Really.
I don't get it, Todd by his own admission can't criticize the movie as the two sides of NBC are separate. So why is he criticiizing doing the movie at all? Why doesn't he find a more important thing to kvetch about? A lot of us Americans don't live such a charmed life. Next he and Andrea will be crying about the number of sprinkles in the cupcake they bought this morning.
I seriously don't get it. Is it that NBC is not allowed to ever air a movie about a living politician active in politics because his or her political opponents will whine like Reince that this is somehow an endorsement? Anway, I thought on MSNBC we do endorse Democrats? Is the point to become just another CNN? I sure hope not because last I looked their allegedly nonpartisan coverage is in third place.
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