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DC staff irked as NBC News eyes cuts
NY Post ^ | 12/21/13 | Claire Atkinson

Posted on 12/21/2013 11:50:55 AM PST by Libloather

NBC News boss Deborah Turness is spending the last few days of the year eyeing cuts — moves that could include axing some senior on-air talent, The Post has learned.

Turness, brought on in August to shake up the moribund news division — where “Meet the Press” and “Today” had stumbled — is in the midst of a host of end-of -year buyouts and cost reductions, sources said.

The current moves are not the first time Turness has irked journalists under her command.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Libloather
moves that could include axing some senior on-air talent, The Post has learned.

What exactly will dey be axing dem?

41 posted on 12/21/2013 12:41:22 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority...")
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To: Libloather

Here is an idea. Bring in alternative views to be heard?

I know, this is kind of an extremist thing to contemplate


42 posted on 12/21/2013 12:48:02 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Chode

That video was amazing. That dude done got a bad case of whoop-ass. Too bad the guy administering the beatdown was a liberal who hated Bush.


43 posted on 12/21/2013 12:51:12 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Firearms training in Jacksonville, Fl.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
i did not know that...
44 posted on 12/21/2013 12:59:01 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Doogle
i love the girl in the headphones...

45 posted on 12/21/2013 1:06:30 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: GeronL; Usagi_yo

Actually, there are plenty of alternative views presented here in the forum. Almost all the important stuff from the networks, the NY Slimes, and the ComPost, as well as foreign news sources.

Sure, opposition stuff is put here to criticize, but coming to FR gives you a pretty good idea what the opposition is up to. I find it allows me to know what the enemy is up to.


46 posted on 12/21/2013 1:09:07 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

I was referring to NBC News and how to try and save it, not that they want to.

Leftists would rather go bankrupt than allow the other side a voice.


47 posted on 12/21/2013 1:14:48 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: abb

Merry Christmas to you too...


48 posted on 12/21/2013 1:15:43 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Libloather
"Turness has been trying to figure out the future for David Gregory’s “Meet the Press,” with options including bringing in MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” team of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for a Sunday show, or blowing up the entire franchise and trying something completely different."

It is truly astonishing how clueless the MSM management is. It's maybe been beaten into their heads, finally, that their news lean left, but they think they can fix that with Scarborough? Scarborough might have been slightly right of center two decades ago when he had some conservative influence around him in the House, but after 20 years of Beltway indoctrination, he's as loony left as they are.

49 posted on 12/21/2013 1:16:43 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Chode

*LOL*....she probably has a glock


50 posted on 12/21/2013 1:23:37 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: carriage_hill
Deborah Turness?

The feminization of network news?

That would account for pretty boy David Gregory ... if she doesn't want anything resembling hard hitting news she should air an infomercial in the time slot - sell baby wipes or something...

If it has to be a liberal - and we all know NBC - I still suggest Jon Stewart... NBC needs one intelligent person at the network - you know - diversity. They've got 'stupid liberal' covered.

51 posted on 12/21/2013 1:25:56 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: billhilly
Deborah Turness?

The feminization of network news?

That would account for pretty boy David Gregory ... if she doesn't want anything resembling hard hitting news she should air an infomercial in the time slot - sell baby wipes or something...

If it has to be a liberal - and we all know NBC - it HAS to be a liberal... I'll still go with Jon Stewart even over Scarborough and Brzezinski. NBC needs one intelligent person at the network - you know - diversity and all... They've got 'stupid liberal' covered.

52 posted on 12/21/2013 1:29:18 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: Libloather

Liberal networks like NBC are currently having a problem satisfying their liberal viewers.

The two centers of Leftist thought at the moment are the universities and the White House, where in both cases the most passionate issue of the day is attacking Israel.

The universities are boycotting Israel’s universities, boycotting its products, virulently attacking Israel’s need to defend itself, and also bashing Jewish-American institutions such as university Hillel groups.

Meanwhile, on the White House front, the Obama Administration has embraced Israel’s most dangerous enemy, Iran, and is focusing on stirring up a European boycott against Israel.

How can the liberal networks show solidarity with the Left except by turning themselves into anti-Semitic propaganda organs resembling those of Nazi Germany and anti-Semitic skinhead groups? Even Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson know they can’t even use words like ‘’Hymietown’’ without getting into trouble.

So the liberal networks will continue to lose their liberal viewership, as the Left continues to move further toward areas not fit for civilized discussion.


53 posted on 12/21/2013 1:53:44 PM PST by Bluestocking
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To: Bluestocking

Maybe their liberal viewers are getting bored of the leftist echo chamber? Maybe they have noticed that the news they see reported doesn’t square with real life?


54 posted on 12/21/2013 1:55:31 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Libloather
Glad to hear they're finally getting their just rewards. Stretch is so cool on MTP, how could they ever, ever, ever consider replacing him ? It is TV's longest running show, so I doubt she'll ass-can it, but DG is a given, imho.

Hiring Hillary's daughter for the nightly news ? F'n BRILLIANT ! Brian Williams....nice enough presenter but an east coast liberal. MSNBC...oh my God...where to start. Jenna Wolfe on weekend Today inserts herself into every story as if she is the story. Does GE still own NBC....they act like it; totally in bed with the agenda. Russert was OK on MTP, but no more than OK, as I believe he was the first of a parade of political operatives in anchor chairs.

Other than that my tagline of 2 years says all you need to know.

55 posted on 12/21/2013 1:56:41 PM PST by chiller (NBCNews et al is in the tank and should be embarrassed)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Replacing liberals with liberals is “something different”??

Moving people from MSNBC to NBC is supposed to make NBC’s ratings go up?? Has this idiot seen MSNBC’s ratings??


56 posted on 12/21/2013 1:57:21 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

Comcast is hugely profitable.
This may be more about spreading the progressive dogma than anything else.


57 posted on 12/21/2013 1:59:01 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: Libloather

“moves that could include axing some senior on-air talent”

Talent? Hum, so that’s what they call it.


58 posted on 12/21/2013 2:06:35 PM PST by angelsonmyside
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To: angelsonmyside
“moves that could include axing some senior on-air talent”

What are they gonna "axe" them?

59 posted on 12/21/2013 2:08:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: abb

Good news.

ABCNNBCBS to really save money should fire all of its DC faux reporters and use Carney’s Obamaganda without the paying their faux reporters to spin the Obamaganda.


60 posted on 12/21/2013 2:13:39 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( Obamacare is a Trinity of Lies! Obamaganda is failing 24/7! Soon Obamaganda will fail 24/365!)
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