NBC News chairman praises Lauer for forum moderator performance

[Calista241]

Source: The Hill

The chairman of NBC News had nothing but high marks for "Today" anchor Matt Lauer’s performance as moderator of Wednesday’s presidential "Commander-in-Chief Forum."

"Against all odds we were able to bring the two presidential nominees together for the first time and presented an important examination of what each would bring to the role of Commander-in-Chief," Andrew Lack, who also serves as MSNBC chairman, wrote in an internal staff note.

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Lack also praised the ratings generated by the event, which outpaced nine of the Republican presidential primary debates and all but one from the Democratic side.

“Matt did a tremendous job — driving one of the most serious discussions to date on these topics. Nearly 15 million people watched the event, and over 26 million tuned in at some point during the hour."


Read more: http://thehill.com/media/295235-nbc-news-chairman-praises-lauer-for-forum-moderator-performance

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Unbelievable.

[Chakab]

1. I can't wait unti television as a medium finally dies and we're rid of these cretins.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. Seriously.

[politicaljunkie41910]

41. So which is it; yesterday they said it was a disaster.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141568680

Source: CNN

NBC News knows the "Commander-in-Chief Forum" was not Matt Lauer's finest hour.

One executive, speaking anonymously, was blunt about it: "Disaster."

The day after Lauer's back-to-back interviews of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, several high ranking sources at the network said they hear the criticism and agree with at least some of it.

Even his internal defenders acknowledge flaws in the forum's production.


http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/media/nbc-news-forum-trump-clinton-postmortem/index.html

[PSPS]

2. All he cares about can be found in this quote: "praised the ratings generated by the event"

[riversedge]

11. Yup, I was thinking the same.

[TeamPooka]

3. In other news Chairman of the White Star line praises Captain Smith for his handling of the Titanic

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. LOL... good one!

[gordianot]

29. The Captain of the Titanic had the honor to go down with the ship.

Media captains are not that honorable.

[spiderpig]

4. Is this the same brain trust who gave a show to Brian Williams on MSNBC?

[wordpix]

48. That doesn't bother me as much as their putting him in Rachel 's

Anchor spot on election night. She's better than he and more credible

[Democat]

5. He's admiting that this was an intentional pro-Trump television advertisement

Clinton needs to be very careful. They are openly promoting Trump and bashing Clinton.

[Granny M]

6. Th worst thing

is that he's also the boss of Lester Holt, the first debate moderator. I hope Holt has the backbone to stand up to him and moderate fairly.

[Frank Cannon]

10. LOL! Lester Holt?

Surely, you jest, Granny.

[Granny M]

12. Hope springs eternal....

Trying to hold on to the last shred of nerve, here....

[Frank Cannon]

26. I assume Lester and Matt were in the same conference room at Comcast...

when upper management told them exactly how it was going to be. There was probably an enormous picture of the Cheeto hanging on the wall above them. Remember, after all, that his long-running hit TV show The Apprentice was on NBC.

[orpupilofnature57]

28. Perception Management is their job, want information ask Amy Goodman .

[Granny M]

33. OK. Last nerve officially gone.

My last feeble hope is that the Clinton campaign is aware and preparing.

[SwankyXomb]

24. I can hear the first questions now

"Mr Trump, can you spell cat? The first two letters are C and A."

"Secretary Clinton, explain in detail your plan for destroying ISIS within your first 30 minutes in office, and why the American people should vote for a liar like you?"

[phylny]

32. Like SNL's "Celebrity Jeopardy"

[C Moon]

7. Who the fuck cares what the "NBC chairPERSON" thinks? it's all about the money for him/her.

I'm so tired of these news corporations: listening to corporate media news is like reading the back of a cereal box.

[Sherman A1]

13. Precisely

the best solution is to turn them off.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. "like reading the back of a cereal box"

Hey! There used to be cool stuff on the back of cereal boxes!

[C Moon]

34. :D

[BumRushDaShow]

35. Earworm time!

[Demit]

21. Why are you calling him a chairperson and not chairman?

The story properly calls him chairman. When the sex of the officeholder isn't known, that's when you use the genderless "chairperson." Otherwise it's either chairman or chairwoman.

[niyad]

37. sorry, you are incorrect. one may, indeed, use the genderless form on all occasions. why does

gender-neutral language seem to bother you so much?

we fought the gender-neutral battles for a long time, because we all know the power of gender-based words.

[Demit]

43. One may use any wrong word one likes, of course.

I'm all for gender-neutral language when it makes sense. I'm also all for acknowledging when a man is a man and a woman is a woman. Using a gender-neutral term in this case (when the identity of the chairperson is known) is kind of silly. It is needlessly overcompensating.

[niyad]

44. please reference whichever style manual contains that rule, because many of us break it on a daily

basis, and have for decades. again, I ask, WHY does gender neutral language upset you?

[Demit]

50. You can ask all you like, too.

Doesn't make it upset me just because you repeat a question.

[niyad]

51. ah, I understand completely.

[C Moon]

39. The only reason I said person, was because I was referring to the position not the person.

I probably shouldn't have emphasized the word. Don't know why I did.

[niyad]

36. nah, sometimes the backs of cereal boxes are entertaining.

[C Moon]

53. :D So very true!

[HellNoKitty]

52. Yes.

[book_worm]

15. Not surprising since Lack is one of Lauer's best friends and helped plan the "debate"

[MADem]

16. Andrew Lack, who also serves as MSNBC chairman, wrote in an internal staff note

I said this the other day--"Let the word go forth...."

This is why everyone on MSNBC was parroting the "That asshole did a good job" routine.


You say what the boss wants you to say, or you Don't Get Paid.

[pwb]

17. 15 million, that is 5 percent of our country.

Wake up media, nobody is watching. Your on your way out if you don't change real soon.

[tavernier]

18. I read that this was his baby and he should take the blame.

So of course he is touting it as a success or HIS boss will start asking questions.

Here's the secret... the biggest bosses are the public and the sponsors, and if we refuse to watch their crap and buy their products, they will go away. Matt Lauer has come close to pissing off the public several times that resulted in lost ratings, so it is possible.

[Sunlei]

19. I think Lauer did well. He brought in the main issue 'dogging' each candidate, let them answer

to the issues and then let the audience Vets ask their questions. In 30 mins there was time for only two Veterans questions.

The Clinton issue was the emails, especially classified. She had the time to make the statement, classified information she worked with was always on a different server.

An hour (30 mins each) was to short, I wish each had to answer questions for a couple hours. Clintons been 'stress tested' for several hours of 'questions' many times. Trump never.

[Coolest Ranger]

20. Let the ass kissing start

I been expecting them to come to his defense

[rurallib]

22. Translation: We made big bucks on this show and

the boys at Comcast were very, very happy

[workinclasszero]

23. "Lack also praised the ratings generated by the event"

Yup the MSM can't wait till Trump is elected with their help because...good ratings make a theocratic fascist state OK kids!

[turbinetree]

25. Mr. Andrew Lack , Mr. Les Moonves, James Spigelman A, Brian L. Roberts

When you look at the history of the above people that are running the news, not one of them and I mean this, not one of them worked at doing any reporting, just maybe they should quit worrying about shareholder value and take a lesson from this "reporter, JOURNALIST" and how he reported on a issue during my time frame, this man also started a fund to memorialize the deaths of war correspondents.

The first question out of Matt's mouth to the dumpster should have been, if he (dumpster) could explain to everyone the "five medical deferments" he got for a bone spur during the Vietnam time frame, and whcih leg or foot it was, since now its being reported you don't know---------------really.

[orpupilofnature57]

27. MSM = Misanthropic Sycophant Monsters really got a boost when Ronnie Ray-Guns got rid of

The fairness Doctrine .

[underpants]

30. Of course he did

They have too much invested in Lauer

[lark]

31. So, the softball treatment idea came from the top?

That's what this appears to be saying. Either that, or they are just trying to cover up the apparent bribery.

[niyad]

38. "when the fish stinks, it starts at the head"

[trueblue2007]

42. this is on tv show SCANDAL

can't find the video

[trueblue2007]

40. He is the ONLY one who thinks Matt Lauer did a good job. LAUER WAS HORRIBLE

[truthisfreedom]

45. I think my timing in dumping Dish service was impeccable.

Couldn't be happier.

[GoCubsGo]

46. What's he going to say?

"I screwed up and gave the job to a guy who had no business having it"? Yeah. Right.

[llmart]

47. Exactly!

If there hadn't been so much negative feedback about his crappy performance, this jackass wouldn't have had to make this statement.

I am so glad I no longer watch TV news. It's better for my stress levels. Also, I honestly don't know one person who was talking about this event the next day.

[wordpix]

49. I saw my senator yesterday and HE mentioned Lauer's performance

to me and how biased it was in favor of don the con. No secret, that.