Yesterday on TPM:
A unnamed source at the network told this morning's New York Post that NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker and Jeff Immelt, CEO of parent company GE, had recently convened a dinner with the network's top brass and some of its high-profile reporters to discuss whether the network that launched a thousand search engine queries into the meaning of teabag should start distancing itself from the "grassroots" war it started with the Obama administration two months ago. Indeed, yesterday the network mentioned the T-word by far the fewest times of any of the major cable news networks. The Post source, an anonymous "insider," said dispatches from the dinner had been filtering down to reporters, who were concerned about being "muzzled by GE."
Quoting the Post ...
"It was an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock which Zucker himself was behind," a source familiar with the powwow told us. "There was a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much. There's great concern that CNBC is now the anti-Obama network. The whole meeting was really kind of creepy."
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I watch Nightly News with Brian Williams and he is really careful about what he saids. Chuck Todd was the only one who called it like it was with McCain/Palin. Now CNBC is a joke and no longer crediable as an Economics show. Cheap employees make bad business. The Executives might be in the hot seat as now everyone's job is up for gabs. Now PBS Business show is getting all the viewers as they don't have wingnuts and they don't play Politics with the viewers. Jeff Zucker might want to check his account to see if he has enough when he's fired. David Gregory the Muffet is bringing down the show Meet the Press. And it's time for Chris Tweety Matthews to leave. Word is Chuck Todd might have a weekend show.
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