Is NBC news worse than the other networks?

We couldn't watch the CBS news because of basketball :mad:. So we watched NBC. They announced that the White House had had a difficult week but had weathered the storm. I was starting to get all depressed, and then it occurred to me...maybe some WH spinmeister had called and planted that story. I think it even led off.

Is NBC worse than the other networks in being in the pocket of Bush/Rove?

Fox was, is, and always will be the worst.

I didn't mean to include Faux, lol. I meant ABC, CBS, and NBC, and maybe NPR and CNN.

is terrible next to fox there the worst. Keep in mind that fox is owned by murdock and nbc is owned by ge.
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rummy is on abc now sunday am 9:04

Although they are pretty bad.

and taking a stronger 2d all the time. Over last 2 to 3 months NBC has been whoring much harder than before, maybe trying to offset some of the other bad press the chimp is getting, IMO!

We almost never watch them. They're such a lame network they don't even have an affiliate in San Francisco, and we have to watch them on an off-station. I was pretty horrified last night and wondered if it was them and not me. Glad to know it wasn't me.

...of the rest of the network, which is why the difference between them and the other 2 big networks is often so jarring. The news has been effectively split off from the parent corporation as its own entity, and hirings and firings are done within that department, not from above, although I'm sure there's incredible pressure from above to do so frequently.

Not so ABC and NBC, who are subject to the whims of Disney and GE, respectively, must toe the corporate line a little more closely.

I miss CBS News, too, and hope these basketball players soon go away. Howevr, I'm taking this opportunity to see what middle America is being told about Clarke and about this disgusting bunch of thieves in the White House. Know your enemy, so you can counter their lies and all that.

How come CNN has to whore itself?

CBS news is back on tonight on the West Coast. The basketball ends at 4:00.

They're all bad, but some are worse than others. And I've worked in media, so I do have a slight grasp on these things.

Fox News-the worst. Drool-inducing, sub-moronic, state run, hate-filled, war-mongering propaganda.

NBC-second worst. Owned by General Electric, makers of all your favorite death machines.

MSNBC-third worst, although only slightly behind CNN. Owned by Microsoft. The Defense Department is one of Microsoft's biggest customers. Enough said.

CNN-Once in a blue moon it is known to produce quality journalism. But these moments are rare and becoming even more rare. I know people who have interned at both Fox and CNN, and they say there is very little difference in the attitudes of the senior editors. The difference is in the business model. Fox has designed itself to cater to conservatives with pundits and infotainment, while CNN has designed itself to be a sort of all-news all the time sort of thing. Therefore, Fox has more loyal viewers that tune into O"liely and so forth, while CNN has more total viewers that tune in to get the latest headlines and then tune out.

ABC-My former network. It is owned by Disney, and Disney is a major contributor to the Republicans, but you can occasionally find good journalism on it. One day it can be really good, and the next it it can be one step above FOX. It's a hit and miss.

CBS-the best of all the mainstream news outlets. This is not to say that it's very good, and I personally can't stand Dan Rather, but if you tune in to any any of the mainstream news sources, here is where you're most likely to get the least amount of propaganda shoved down your brain.

Great info and analysis.

IMHO all multinationals that include news broadcast are bad. They lean wichever way the wind is blowing. It's not a liberal or conservative bias, it's a corporate bias, remember they are trying to sell you products. I tend to stick with cspan, bbc and npr and my local rag which many readers bitch about being liberal. In the case of Faux of course, their bias is 2 fold, the obvious and disgusting pro-shrub agenda and again the corporate agenda. It's all about selling advetising space. Anyone remember the old days when there was "Investigative journalisism"? Where has that gone? Right down the memory hole, multinationals cant have their own reporters looking into them now can they? Bad for democracy, bad for all of us.