NBC Chief: Liberals Don't Watch TV (Bob Wright)

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Appearing at a recent media conference, NBC president Bob Wright offered a novel rationale for the exclusion of liberal voices on cable news: Liberals don't watch TV.

During an interview with conservative MSNBC host Tucker Carlson, Wright responded to Carlson's question about offering a left-leaning channel by saying that progressives "don't listen to a lot of radio and they don't watch a lot of television" (Broadcasting & Cable, 11/13/05).

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lying creep

we should be camping at the media stations, making their life miserable.

Liberals are not controlled by the TV (and radio).

WE THINK FOR OURSELVES!!!!!!

Seriously I do think liberals tend to be more selective in what they want though.

Bryant
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And this is because liberals do not see any reason to watch tv or listen to radio....gave up in frustration ages ago when I did not see or hear any points of view that I could agree with and now I get my news from the net......

But I would if it was worth watching.......

and informed him we might watch if there was someone on besides Right Wing shills like Tucker Carlson.

... the same rationale should apply to NPR, i.e., freepers don't listen to NPR, so hands off our NPR (meaning: take that right wing crap 'On Point' off of NPR).

E.

television??? That's cause there isn't anything intelligent on it. Lots of liberals watch C-SPan, West Wing, Keith Olberman.
Tucker Carlson is an imbecile.
Chris Mathews isn't much better.
Television has become a right wing steno pool.

That is my email to the NBC moron.

I should have said that my brother watches 2 TVs all the time. One on ESPN and the other on Fox Sports. He's a liberal.

i say go for mass email to the asshole. let me see if i can find his address

bob.wright@nbc.com

It's the RW'ers that need to hear the other side, not we the choir.

They aren't interested in informing anyone. They are interested in exploiting their audience. Remember, TV channels broadcast filler in between their real reason for existing: the commercials.

If the filler is substantive enough to keep the audience around for the next group of commercials, then it's good material. If it also happens to relax the audience and put them in a state of mind to be more apt to make an emotional identification with one or more of the commercials, then it's great material. What that material is and what point of view it expresses is meaningless. It exists solely for the purpose of making the network money.

When you forget this simple fact, you can easily miss the whole point (no offense, just sayin').

The fact that the filler shown on TV is generally glossed-over, low-impact, lowest-common-denominator stuff (in entertainment programs) and the fact that it tends to soothe more than subvert (in news programs) suggests to me that they aren't trying to wake anyone up or motivate anyone. The audience is just supposed to remain hynotized, keep buying useless crap, keep the powerful in power, be good little cogs in the great machine, lather, rinse, repeat....

The fact that liberals *don't respond* to the networks' methods of evaluating their audience - not "don't watch TV" - in the same way the RW sheep do, tells me that we know they're full of shit.

So, email them, don't email them.... fuck 'em. I don't watch. Let 'em try to manipulate me now.

So I get it.

My rant was a wonky way to say we need the Fairness Dontrine back in the worst way.

In our house television is pretty much limited to Jon Stewart, David Letterman, (both occassionally) and tons and tons of Nickelodean for the kids.

My kids, by the way, love "Fairly Odd Parents," a Nickelodeon show that is somewhat subversive. It has a wonderful way of mocking the Governor of California, the steroid crazed hydrogen Hummer boy.

all liberals are unemployed, sitting around watching TV and waiting for their landline phone to ring so they can skew another Bush approval poll.

Anyway, he has me nailed - I never watch TV with the exception of a football game or two on the weekends and even then I rarely watch more than half.

...and I watch TV. Heck, I even own 2 TiVos! I watch the Daily show. I watch college basketball, football and other sporting events, including golf. I watch Leno, Letterman and Conan (the barbarian).

I don't watch assholes like Tucker Carlson, FOX news, NBC news or MSNBC (Fox lite). When I want a dose of corporate network propaganda I watch CBS news. CBS news seems to be the least conservative of the major network newscasts and even CBS can tow the conservative line when word comes down from on high.

I was a TV addict, especially news addict, for about 40 years, until the last several years when it came to my attention that the news I was watching was 'seriously' manipulated to exclude the most important stories.

I'm quite certain it's possible for any publisher to push away their customers by failing to provide them with the product or service they perceived they were purchasing. Afterward, it would be quite the lie to claim that lost customers "views aren't represented" because they no longer purchase.

Or how about this, a retailer only sells junk trinkets, so in the end they lost customers who only wanted to buy quality trinkets. When the CEO was asked by shareholders why so many customers have started purchasing elsewhere, the CEO replies that those customers don't want what we sell. Circular reasoning.

Trust is a fragile confidence, that once lost, will take many, many years to rebuild.

this is the best joke of the day.

watch much tv but it's because I gave up on it. The slant is right wing and there is no fairness in the news and most other shows are too dumb to be worth the time. In effect they gave up on the liberal/left market in favor of their right wing masters. They had to choose between the truth and satisfying people who do watch with only saying what they want to hear.