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Brokaw, execs fuming over NBC chief’s remark
NYPost ^ | August 26, 2014 10:10pm | Emily Smith

Posted on 08/27/2014 10:13:37 AM PDT by keat

NBC News president Deborah Turness had to apologize after infuriating top execs and talent by announcing the network news organization had been asleep for 15 years.

Turness, who came to the job from Britain’s ITV News one year ago, dropped the tactless clanger in a New York Times interview on Sunday, saying, “NBC News hadn’t kept up with the times in all sorts of ways, for maybe 15 years . . . I think the organization had gone to sleep.”

Sources tell us Tom Brokaw, managing editor and anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News” from 1982 until 2004, Turness’ predecessor Steve Capus (NBC News president from 2005 to 2013 and now executive producer of “CBS Evening News”) and CNN chief Jeff Zucker “are apoplectic” over Turness’ remark.

One network insider fumed, “Turness is making enemies. Her ‘asleep’ comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBC’s top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams, and her predecessors Steve Capus, Andy Lack, Neal Shapiro and Jeff Zucker.”

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To: UB355

Hear, hear!


21 posted on 08/27/2014 10:38:58 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: TADSLOS

“NBC has been working tirelessly slamming conservatives and clearing paths for Clinton/Obama for decades.”

NBC has done its job well in getting the Marxist elected POTUS twice. They certainly must feel proud.


22 posted on 08/27/2014 10:39:20 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: keat

They’re mad ‘cuz they got woke up from a dreamless sleep.


23 posted on 08/27/2014 10:40:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: keat

Wow a British telling it like it is


24 posted on 08/27/2014 10:41:04 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: keat

This comes days after she attacks her most credible news show (by mainsteam journalists’ perspective) a snooze-fest, suggesting she’d want something more like The View.
Is “Turness” a female “Turner”?


25 posted on 08/27/2014 10:44:51 AM PDT by dangus
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To: keat

Catfight. Color me interested. Not.


26 posted on 08/27/2014 10:45:06 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: tcrlaf

She’s one of THEM. Her complaint is that NBC News isn’t enough like the View.


27 posted on 08/27/2014 10:45:44 AM PDT by dangus
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To: tcrlaf

She’s one of THEM. Her complaint is that NBC News isn’t enough like the View.

Where did you learn that bit about NBC News being dominated by gays?


28 posted on 08/27/2014 10:47:21 AM PDT by dangus
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To: UB355

” I have to hear Tom Brokaw’s American Story on our local Clear Channel every day”


Are you being held prisoner????

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29 posted on 08/27/2014 10:48:21 AM PDT by Mears
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To: dangus
Turness went on to freelance for ITN, ending up as Washington producer, where she covered the Oklahoma bombing, the Atlanta Olympics and the invasion of Haiti. She also covered Bill Clinton's first term in office and later, when she returned to London to help launch Channel 5 News,would sign up Monica Lewinsky as a reporter.
30 posted on 08/27/2014 10:50:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: keat

Jeez, what’s Warren Buffet all keyed up about.

....

I think Brokaw has cancer.


31 posted on 08/27/2014 10:55:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: WayneS

Indeed a sad commentary on the level of talent at NBC. Hundreds of bodies milling about at NBC News, and hardly a brain to be found among the lot.


32 posted on 08/27/2014 10:55:47 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: keat

NBC doesn’t have any “top journalists”.


33 posted on 08/27/2014 10:56:36 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: keat

“Her ‘asleep’ comment is incredibly disrespectful to many of NBC’s top journalists, especially Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams.”

TOP journalists: Brokaw and Williams .......HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!


34 posted on 08/27/2014 11:03:19 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: keat
If asleep" means "blindly and unquestioningly supporting the limitless expansion of the welfare state" then the lady is right on target.

I suspect that isn't what she meant, though...

35 posted on 08/27/2014 11:08:07 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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To: keat

Tom Brokaw does look like Buffett.
“There is talk of layoffs”

That is whta this is about, they know they have undermined America for decades and are worried about losing their high paying jobs. They do not do the basics in reporting.

BTW has anyone at NBC (same for the other networks) asked obama where he was on 9-11-12 when Benghazi was going on? Where the survivors are?

Basic questions like why is the economy so bad year after year with you in charge. The corruption that is obamacare?

None that I can recall.


36 posted on 08/27/2014 11:09:20 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: keat

Truth hurts..a lot.


37 posted on 08/27/2014 11:10:45 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: keat
I'm not sure they were sleeping, but they have definitely been in bed with the Democrats for at least fifteen years.
38 posted on 08/27/2014 11:12:23 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: tje
Use the correct term, Top Readers
39 posted on 08/27/2014 11:14:08 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: keat
Biden auditioning for NBC News?
40 posted on 08/27/2014 11:17:54 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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