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The Once-respected NBC News is suffering from a losing streak
The Hill ^ | 07/10/2018 | BY JEFF MCCALL,

Posted on 07/10/2018 10:53:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

NBC News was for years the network juggernaut that raked in the ratings and the cash. It was also widely respected for its journalism standards. Now, the once-respected news organization is wobbling after months of self-inflicted blunders. The missteps include personnel disasters and questionable news judgments. These preventable gaffes suggest a news hierarchy at NBC that has lost its compass, operating as a misguided corporate bureaucracy and not as a journalistic service to the nation.

NBC pioneered broadcast news in the late 1920s with radio news updates from the legendary Floyd Gibbons. The network was the first to venture into television news, with nightly updates from John Cameron Swayze beginning in 1949. The “Huntley-Brinkley Report” later followed and dominated ratings. After news surges by CBC and ABC, NBC reemerged in the mid-’90s to again command the broadcast news landscape.

That leadership is now fading as ABC’s “World News Tonight” with David Muir has overtaken NBC’s Lester Holt for five consecutive quarters. NBC’s “Today” show now also trails ABC, and has lost sixteen percent of its younger demographic viewers in just the last year.

Lester Holt at first seemed to thrive in the NBC anchor chair he inherited three years ago from Brian Williams, who got launched for telling tall tales. Holt seemed overmatched, however, in his moderating of a 2016 campaign debate between Trump and Clinton. His puffy report from North Korea earlier this year in advance of the Olympics was poorly developed and came off as North Korean propaganda. NBC acknowledged that North Korean censors organized the itinerary and controlled the visuals. Recently, when the Justice Department’s inspector general testified before Congress about the FBI’s conduct during the Hillary Clinton email probe, Holt’s newscast failed to mention the story.

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To: ClearCase_guy
Once-respected NBC News

I wasn't born yet.


Mid 1950s?
41 posted on 07/10/2018 4:04:04 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Artemis Webb
Tom Brokaw came in to replace him and did a pretty good job as well. But that ended after Ronald Reagan got elected and Brokaw ruined his image (with me at least) by giving a Reagan attacking interview to Mother Jones Magazine.


My first indication that Brokaw was a leftist was at the end of his news program. The final item was often an agenda driven piece espousing liberal causes.

When the protagonist of the piece fit the liberal agenda, the camera would cut to Brokaw for a goodnight approving nod and smile. If the last piece featured a conservative issue, or person, Brokaw would give a disproving "harrumph". Like clockwork. Made me so mad sometimes I wanted to throw a shoe through the screen (never did).

42 posted on 07/10/2018 6:40:00 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Once-respected NBC News is suffering from a losing streak


Once respected means it was respected only one time.
43 posted on 07/10/2018 6:41:49 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: SeekAndFind

And when did this happen, during the Obama or Bush administrations?

No, during the Trump administration.

It’s all part of setting the stage.

Trust the plan!


44 posted on 07/10/2018 6:54:49 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
The Huntley-Brinkley Report of the 60’s was a widespread favorite, 6:30 to 7 PM every night. Even then they were more credible than the fraudulent Uncle Walter Cronkite.

Chet Huntley was definite center right, while David Brinkley was a sort of wry liberal who didn’t trust anyone in government too much either way.. No one on the air today who compares to these two.

45 posted on 07/10/2018 11:17:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: PA Engineer
The IBM Selectric, the last and best of breed before word processing took over. It is still a valuable office tool if anyone is lucky enough to still have one.
46 posted on 07/10/2018 11:20:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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