{"id":38572,"date":"2013-11-23T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38572"},"modified":"2013-11-23T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T14:54:04","slug":"what-you-lose-with-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38572","title":{"rendered":"What You Lose with NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who wouldn\u2019t watch NBC Nightly News even if held at gunpoint by a crazed Brian Williams fan (ditto for Today) I must rely on the reporting of Brent Bozell<\/a>\u2019s network watchdog website Newsbusters.org, which usually gets it right, for the truth of this statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After going 72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare<\/a> on its air waves, NBC’s continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday’s Nightly News or Friday’s Today brought that total up to 96 hours. Amazingly, Friday’s Today had the audacity to include two segments about Vice President Joe Biden buying lunch at a Washington D.C. sandwich shop rather provide any Obamacare updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think about that folks: Here our nation is embroiled in the biggest government-created domestic mess it has experienced in decades, perhaps ever, and one of the supposed top three broadcast network news shows in the country and its morning counterpart have not even mentioned the subject in 96 hours? That\u2019s four full days for the math deficient. And who knows what that figure will be by the time you read this. Apparently the term news means something elitely different in New York City Speak. Worse, what can their nationwide audience perceive as current news when the main issues of the day are being kept from them by the very folks they trust to provide it? You simply could not find a more on-point application of the expression misplaced trust if you searched forever.<\/p>\n

What is really sad is that this is the most watched of the three major network evening news shows, likely in part to superficial soccer-mom fascination with William\u2019s lantern-jawed and carefully-coiffed good looks. That\u2019s probably true as well for the audience of Matt Lauer, the urbane morning metrosexual on Today. My soccer-mom hit may be a tad unfair but female viewers do dominate<\/a>, especially for morning news shows, which may mean NBC sees their viewing audience as being as shallow as their broadcast content. Before you ladies berate me in the comments, kindly note those mays. Recall that a majority of those soccer-moms voted for another charming metrosexual, Barack Obama, not once but twice. <\/p>\n

But a certainty it is that NBC\u2019s content will remain shallow and limited in scope as long as NBC\u2019s vacuous viewers accept this ideological censoring of what they are permitted to know about national affairs. And in this case, those are affairs of major health consequences to them and their sniffling, little red-nosed rug rats and croupy, coughing curtain climbers.<\/p>\n

This is not just some legislative kerfuffle that NBC is ignoring; it is the largest, most comprehensive package of legislation since LBJ\u2019s War on Poverty, affecting a sixth of our still unrecovered economy. And it\u2019s in big, big trouble, so much so that it is in serious risk of repeal before it can crater the health insurance industry and bankrupt millions of Americans. Yet NBC considers this historic liberal overreach not worthy of their broadcast time? I saw, while looking for broadcast figures, that NBC is devoting significant airtime to the Kennedy assassination this week. But of course, hours of adulation can be allocated to the continuing canonization of another Kennedy, another skirt-chasing, lionized liberal icon fifty years dead, who set the standard for future Democrats, both presidents like Bill Clinton and pretenders like John Edwards. But no, not a minute was available to cover the worst liberal legislative clusterfark in the same five decades. We all know that had this been a Republican act, poor JFK would have been hard pressed to get an occasional mention this week at NBC amid all the scenery-chewing, mouth-frothing outrage spewing from Rockefeller Center. Do you suppose NBC might stand for Network Butt Covering for Obama? Here\u2019s some advice for those of you who daily follow Brian and Matt:
\nIf you form your views from NBC News, you\u2019re a loser in multiple meanings of the term. Try FOX.<\/p>\n

Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a> in an edited form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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