And they are very much right-wing leaning corporations ... BOTH of them

Cable-TV giant Comcast acquired control of NBCUniversal from General Electric in early 2011.

Formally Sheinhardt Wig Company

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and Thank You!

Gotta love all the excuses these days (she works for us) for censorship and to steer a message the way the Pukes and Baggers want.

how we could have been so backwards and mired in muck. Maybe Chelsea will be a Senator by then.

Yeah, right.

It would be great if we had a liberal media, but all we have is corporate media.

...where the line between News and Advocacy is completely blurred.

Just as long as the advocacy is something you agree with.

I want people to be able to exercise their free speech by running television advertisements.

And I want a news station that reports news, unspins any spin and takes a rigid, non-political stance.

because she had a famous husband or dad.

or whatever her name is

Chelsea Clinton is a very fine young woman from my perspective, and her views on marriage for all are admirable.

But, and it is a big But, she is an on air reporter for NBC. As a journalist she is not supposed to be taking sides in a political debate.

I doubt that any NBC journalist would get a pass for supporting any particular politician or cause in a paid political advertisement.

Not even the members of the MSNBC lineup get to appear on TV ads for their favorite candidates.

Chelsea's situation is exactly the same as Rachel's or Ed's or Chris's.

I am surprised that anyone, including Chelsea herself, thought that NBC would allow this of one of its journalists.

glad that someone understands the issue here

Good call.

or everyone at ConNBC for campaigning on the air for Repukes.

Your post is very thoughtful and complete corporate bullshit.

They are commentators. Personalities. Advocates. They don't try to give us two sides of a story; they aren't suggesting that we can see things either way...that the Faux POV is "just as valid" as the MSNBC one. They are advocates for their own personal viewpoints. Chris Matthews is a Roman Catholic Old School Tip O'Neill-trained Social Justice type, Rachel Maddow is a left-leaning liberal Democrat, Ed is the Union guy.

Chelsea was hired knowing full well who her daddy was and what her politics are -- her "pull" is that she is the daughter of a former President...just like Jenna Bush, who also got hired for the same reason-- to do fluff pieces and pull in an audience of curious gawkers.

then you can't make public ads, supporting a candidate or make other political statements.

I would like to have seen the ads, but I understand the why of it all.

has anyone really seen her doing anything?

she's done 3 spots I've seen on the NBC evening news with Brian Williams, I've seen those. For some reason I think she had done something for Rock Center with Brian Williams.

It was very sad and difficult to watch.

this sort of thing is against the rules. She should have read her contract.

She sure has that Clinton courage.

She's worked hard to get where she is, and is no doubt wanting to support her family herself rather than rely on her parents for income.

No doubt.

We don't need more "left vs. right" journalism; we need unbiased, neutral reporting.

we, as a nation, would rather make an issue out of who can marry who or whether or not people should be able to choose to smoke pot. It is already too late for some things to matter to the general population. Let people live free while they can.

.......they don't seem to care when on Sunday morning "Dancin' Dave" lends credence to right wing talking points by not calling them on their bullshit. Fluffy doesn't come right out and admit he supports a certain agenda, but he sure as hell doesn't get in the way of Lindsay Graham and Grampy McCain when they start to wax psychotic.

What else do you think they censor out that doesn't fit into their political beliefs?

I'm not saying I agree fully with NBC's decision, but if she wanted them to air she could have up and quit thereby eliminating the reason for them saying no. Remember they popped Olbermann for his campaign contributions.

...who have, a) destroyed journalism, and b) helped destroy our democracy and our economy.

Can't avoid the stench of privilege either. Would she be doing "color" for the NBCons if she wasn't the Clinton's daughter? Maybe. But probably not. In any case, she has seriously risked that a lot of people will see it that way--that she aced many poor, unprivileged young journalists out of a job because she has a famous name. If she wants a career with the corpo-fascist media, fine. You go, girl! But if she wants to springboard from one of the destroyers of democracy into elected office, frankly I don't think she can represent ME, and I would have trouble voting for her, knowing that the NBCons gave her a leg up. Why, would be my question. Why would one of these evil media monopolies jumpstart her career?

As for the NBCons getting all huffy about the perception of bias, it's just laughable. They lost legitimacy as journalists a long time ago--threw it away for war profiteering and 1%er propaganda. They aren't gonna get it back by banning Chelsea's ads on gay rights.

Some upthread posters ask, Do we want NBC to be Faux News where the line between journalism and advocacy has been erased and everything they broadcast is far rightwing "Big Lie" propaganda? I don't think these posters realize how far gone ALL corporate media is, in this country, nor how wrong it is that those who brought us the Bush Junta and the War on Iraq control our PUBLIC airwaves, not to mention print newspapers, books, magazines, movies, TV shows and radio stations, conglomerated with the weapons industry and other evildoers such as the financial industry.

We are the most disinformed, brainwashed people in the world. The corporate media is WHY. And their pretensions about objectivity are not just a joke, they are a disaster. That people are beginning to understand the bias of Faux News is encouraging. But that many people still believe in the "objectivity" of NBC News or the New York Slimes or the Associated Pukes is disastrous. It means they can lead us right off the cliff into more wars, into more stolen elections, and into yet more massive looting by the rich, while the very planet we live on is destroyed

she has any political ambitions.