I have had it. I can’t take it anymore. NBC is too bias in all its forms.

[Freida5]

I will not watch any NBC affiliate beginning today.

NBC has been a part of my entire life. I enjoyed watching Meet the Press every Sunday, sometimes twice for 20+ years. Countdown has been by favorite newscast for the past 2 years. My involvement with NBC goes back to my childhood. We did not have cable television and the only television station we received was an NBC affiliate. Huntley-Brinkley was our main news sources where we watched news about Kennedy, Vietnam, Space exploration, everything. NBC, CNBC, Versus, MSNBC have been a big part of my life for a lot of years.

But I cannot stand the anti-Clinton rhetoric of everyone from David Shuster to the person held up as the most professional journalist, Tim Russert and I am especially disappointed in Keith Olbermann. In the morning you have Mika and Joe who spend hours trashing Senator Clinton everyday. It seems everyone of the announcers are pro-Obama and anti-Clinton.

So I pledge to not watch any NBC owned channel until the level of professionalism which Huntley and Brinkley and thousands of other professionals and which I have always expected from NBC is restored. So I guess it will be a long time. Hell may freeze over or the Fairness Doctrine is put in place again. I really hope the professionals I once knew on the stations would surface once again.

[Kahuna]

1. ...

:nopity:

[Cha]

30. Is she just finding out?

I haven't watched corporate news since Nov 2002! They have an agenda and they manipulate..it's hard to believe they don't have something in store for Obama if they need to.

[AX10]

2. CNN is not too much better.

The MSM has the knives out for her.

It is sickening the way they put Obama on a pedastal and Clinton in the dumps.

[NeedleCast]

22. Were you complaining about this

when the HRC was easily the front runner a few months ago and the media had few positive things to say about Obama?

[GCP]

3. I know how you feel - it seems like a corporate decision

I've gone over to ABC and they seem to be much more balanced.
Obama is getting the same free ride that Bush did in 2000.

[Freida5]

6. I usually don't watch ABC but thanks for the suggestion

[monmouth]

4. I'm sure your departure from their viewing audience will be noted...n/t

[Joe the Revelator]

5. This kind of whining is getting really tiresome...

is this what we can expect from a Hillary nomination?

[GCP]

9. It's not whining, it's stating a truth

And watch once Obama gets the nomination - the gloves will be off with the MSM and you'll wonder WTF happened.

[Darth_Kitten]

15. Maybe READ the post and understand what the poster is stating.....

geez......maybe look outside in the real world. :eyes:

P.S. With a Hillary nomination you get a concise, articulate, and strong woman. One who has a plan.

[thunder rising]

7. The right wing shills are enjoying their last days .. it will change .. this is a mandate of the

population of the United States.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Ok.

[thunder rising]

10. Why Obama? We are tired on the left, we are tired on the right. And we want to end this wedging

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

11. NBC = Neuter Billary Clinton

Hmmmm, wonder what else my fellow DU'ers will come up with LOL

[Darth_Kitten]

19. You can't neuter a female.

Try again.

[housewolf]

21. Sure you can - it's called "spaying"

n/t

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[OzarkDem]

12. GOP/NBC is choosing our candidate for us

they're busy nominating Obama so McCain can win.

[Freida5]

16. That is exactly how I feel.

[NastyRiffraff]

13. It's not just NBC

Although I agree they're one of the worst. The entire Corporate media is baised. Today it's against Clinton, as it has been for years. But mark my words, if Obama wins the nomination, they'll go after him, too. They always do, to Democrats. Anyone remember the War Against Gore? The Swiftboating of Kerry? The swiftboaters would never have had an audience had the corporate media not given them a soapbox.

I hope to God that Obama is aware of what's coming if he's the nominee. Hope and Change won't work here. Neither will "reaching across the aisle."

[Freida5]

You expect it on Fox. But even Fox does not brutalize other Republicans to the same extent

[GalleryGod]

25. Your post is very insulting, to wit..

" I hope to God Obama is aware...yada,yada,friggin' ya-da":puke:
No! Obama's a rube,a neophyte,he's naive'. Can you be anymore smarmy :puke:

Here's of what I'm 100% certain: He's smarter than you, Soothsayer...go watch ABC.

[NastyRiffraff]

32. Oh jeez....

Ultrasensative, are we? I meant what I said, and no more. I hope Obama and his campaign are prepared for this (as Kerry wasn't).

If you look for insults, you'll manage to find them in just about anything.

:rolleyes:

[anigbrowl]

36. You hope Obama is aware of what's coming his way...

Hmm, he's one of the serious candidates to become the nominee for the next presidential election, but you fear that neither he nor anyone on his campaign staff is clued in about how the Republicans fight elections? Maybe you should send them your resume, to ensure they have someone on their staff who really understands how politics work in this country.

Seriously, folks...isn't it just a little egotistical to sit there and type away on DU about how much better you understand the GOP than anyone on the Obama campaign? It's not like Obama decided to run for President because he just happened to win the lotto jackpot last year and didn't know what else to do with the money. All you doom and gloom prognosticators - why weren't you working for the Hillary campaign and using your special electioneering insight to bury the Obama campaign months ago?

[NastyRiffraff]

40. My humble apologies!

For even hinting that St. Barack is less than all wise, all knowing. I remember Gore and Kerry, both of whom are AT LEAST as intellgent as Obama, probably more. What happened to them, from the media, hmm?

[LSparkle]

14. Months ago, the MSM was crowning Hillary the inevitable nominee

They go with whoever has the momentum. If Clinton were doing better, the coverage on NBC (and all the networks) would be more positive, but at this point, she's in trouble. At the very bottom of all this, there IS an unbiased truth about who's up and who's down -- and part of good election coverage is getting that point across. "Unbiased" election coverage wouldn't be an accurate assessment of how a race is going because someone is ALWAYS up and someone else is always down.

[TheDonkey]

28. Clinton supporters forget this. I stopped watching cable news for many months b/c that

It was all Hillary all the time. Everyone was calling her the presumptive nominee etc and saying what will hillary do to win the GE. It was sickening. The momentum has changed and now all her supporters are screaming. Well it does suck and I suggest they do turn those TV off because there is a life outside of these talking heads.

[journalist3072]

17. The sad thing are the folks (many of whom are right here on DU) who soak up the anti-Clinton lies

they are being fed by the MSM.

We do not have educated voters going to the polls in this election.

We have people who are drinking the kool-aid.

[jasmine621]

18. If you think it is bad now. If Obama wins the primary, wait until the GE

to see how they begin to trash him. It's all a part of the plan. They Hillary first, Bill second and they just don't want to see these undeserving, low life, Clintons back in the WH. They still can't get over that Bill made it there twice. Most votes for Obama are simply not FOR Obama but AGAINST Hillary. I feel strongly about this because I am privy to run in circles that make this claim...even within African American circles this is the feeling thanks to the distortions a bias of the media against the Clintons. It really is a shame and a sham.

[AX10]

35. It will be interesting to see the reaction...

of DU Obambots when this occurs.

Note that after all the years of right wing media bias, the Obambots are now saying the media mearly wants to be with the "winner", not always on the side of the GOP.
They are changing the rules to suit their needs.

[LisaM]

20. I just heard someone make a very strange statement on the radio

The person (I'm listening to 1090 a.m. in Seattle) said that people naturally root for whomever's ahead, whomever's scoring points! As a nation, we appear to be front runners.

This is part of what's going on with the coverage right now, though I have never really seen anyone who seems to be on Hillary's side. Rachel Maddow spoke up for her briefly today, and that's about it.

[Freida5]

27. That is hard to believe. Rachel has been extremely critical of Hilliary

I could not believe it was her.

[LisaM]

29. Well I listen to her show religiously

And she just said it today. Sorry.

[AX10]

33. Randi, Rachel, Ed, and Stephanie Miller...

are as anti-Hillary as one can get.

[DB1]

31. Probably true, MSM talked HRC up for the last 2 years as the.....

inevitable candidate so they probably don't feel they owe her anything. That does not make it right. Also look at the numbers, they appear to be so pro Obama, it is time to consider concession. Flame on.

[TheDonkey]

24. enjoy FOX

[OzarkDem]

34. Most Obama supporters do

Their favorite channel, right? All the conservatives are turning "liberal" to vote for Obama and all the "liberal" Democrats are now watching Fox, eh?

[housewolf]

26. I think the bias is towards whoever they think is winning

I don't think it's about the person, I think it's about being on the side of the whoever is winning and dumping on whoever is losing.

The money is always on the side of who's winning.

[islandmkl]

37. It's about time we got tired of the Corporate Media and the way they play us...

We are the ones who actually want a strong Press...we might hate the crap we see and hear, but we've always been the ones to defend the voice of the Press. It has strayed, and is straying farther, from the voice of the people...it has become the voice TO the people. But, many of us are tired of hearing it. We have found new formats, new venues, new vehicles to talk to each other, to find out news. So, look up...the more we don't like it, the less it will find our audience. And, recent history not necessarily revealing, we ARE THE PEOPLE. Much of what we hold dear makes America what it is, what it can be. "They try to keep us down. But we keep comin'. Because...WE ARE THE PEOPLE."

[beachmom]

38. If Hillary had blown out Obama tonight, then the "bias" would have

been in her direction. A few media rules:

1. They love winners, but
2. They especially love underdogs who claw their way to victory

That's it.

[belpejic]

39. I think Freida5's decision is great

Even if stopping using a media product/service only has a nominal effect on a big company, it makes you feel better, and you begin to realize that you didn't need that garbage in the first place. Kind of like junk food.

I know I made the decision with the NYT--when I spoke with customer service to terminate my subscription they had a pre-prepared response about Bill Kristol, and they couldn't believe I'd still cancel even after offered some incentives. Haven't missed it since--even Krugman's free now, and I can block the ads.