Posted on 05/09/2009 1:33:20 AM PDT by paudio
After losing some $30 million from advertisers while they covered President Obama's three primetime news conferences in recent months, the major television networks are likely to follow Fox's lead and turn down the White House when it asks them to preempt a primetime time period any time soon, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Friday), citing several unnamed network executives. "We will continue to make our decisions on White House requests on a case-by-case basis, but the Fox decision gives us cover to reject a request if we feel that there is no urgent breaking news that is going to be discussed," one network exec told the trade publication.
The paragraph is from imdb, and there's nothing more there.
I suppose he’s going to “bail” them out for this and then impose his will and force them to put his face 24-7, mafya knee breaker loan shark style.
Reminds me of Fidel Castro and Chavez.
I wouldn't bet on it. They've sold their souls to Ø, and he's not about to give them back. He owns them.
What a bunch of cowards using FOX to protect themselves from the tyrant BO.
They're amateurs compared to this guy. For them tyranny is just a diversion. For Ø, it's his passion, his raison d'etre.
What we see is not much different from many dictators in the 3rd world countries. Sometimes we forget that many—if not most—of them also came to power through election. Not unlike in those countries, in today’s America it is common that we go to bookstores, T-shirt stores, and other places and see the picture of Our Great Leader there.
two front war!!!
BO going for total saturation. Unfortunately, America isn’t completely made up of sponges, although, there are a few.
IMHO the key phrase of the article is:
“the Fox decision gives us cover”
This sums up the MSM’s approach to everything - pact mentality at its worse.The big name reporters of the past going all the way back to Poor Richard’s Almanac must be spinning in their graves.
Obama is on TV almost everyday now. He never has anyhting new to say, so I just change the channel or go do something else. I wonder if these White House PR guys ever heard of “over saturation”.
Bull crap. They are Hussein worshipers through and through. They’ll bow their knees before him and obey.
They're in it for personal aggrandizement and the power high.
They love to reach out and make something happen. Cook County Dems are the Emperors of Control.
Control freak is just too tame a word.
“They love to reach out and make something happen”
And here in lies the problem. Change for change sake is never a good thing unless you know what you’re doing. If you don’t you may change things in ways no one could ever imagine. Sometimes the best course of action is to do nothing, which is something that “progressives” never understood.
He’s fired CEO’s and nationalized our auto industry. Think that he will let a few media bigwigs stand in his way?
Perhaps he should fund his own cable channel. He could call it a “jobs program.”
After all, this is chump change to them and it's all a part of "serving the people" and keeping them properly informed, is it not?
For government, it is just about always true.
Katrina is the best example. An instilled welfare attitude trapped those people into not even trying to help themselves.
Just read a fascinating article on survival - survivors take personal responsibility. Duh.
"Who the f*** do you think you're dealing with? We'll have the IRS audit your fund. Every one of your employees. Your investors. Then we will have the Securities and Exchange Commission rip through your books looking for anything and everything and nothing we find to destroy you with."
You people at the networks don't quite understand do you? First, it is never a request from Obama, it is a demand. Second, it doesn't matter if YOU lose money, it only matters that the messiah gets on prime time at a time of his convenience. So as the great Pamela Lee said - "Suck it."
In the past, as long as Republicans were a factor in politics, the media and their opinions, and their profits, mattered. Democrats welcomed them with open arms and made them believe that their input was highly valued. For now though, they don't really matter. Obama and the Rats have total control over everything except the Supreme Court, and that will change soon enough. The media is of no further use to the Democrats. Too bad, how sad.
(I hate to do this, but here goes. Hey media, if you want to be considered a "playah" once more, get more Republicans elected so that political balance is restored. Then, the Democrats will respect you in the morning again.)
IMO - no. But for the sake of speculation, I wonder how Obama would handle it if the news print media and the broadcast media got so ticked off that 24/7, they began running full scale investigations into the administration scandals, and began demanding special prosecutors?
I think the new media will be interesting in that I've never been to DU. Will this create a new institutional bias?
During the Nixon years the favorite conspirator's phrase was, “do you have the correct information?”
Isn't that the direction we are headed with liberals having their “facts” and we ours?
Isn't that the direction we are headed with liberals having their “facts” and we ours?"
I think we are back in the Clinton era. Truth and facts don't matter unless the media investigates something and agrees with it.
Pretty brave of them. I’ve heard this administration has specialist in kneecaps and legs willing to apply their expertise.
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