The News: NBC News hired Chelsea Clinton as a “full-time special correspondent”. She joins other NBC hires such as Jenna Bush (GW’s daughter) and Luke Russert (son of former Meet the Press host Tim). MSNBC, of course, hired Meghan McCain (daughter of John) for her insights on the presidential elections.
Possible Takeaway: If you want a news gig, have a famous father?
At Salon, Glenn Greenwald writes about America’s Meritocratic, Watchdog News Media:
We all owe our gratitude to NBC News for single-handedly correcting the shameful, long-standing exclusion from our media discourse of the views of young, journalistically accomplished heirs and heiresses to political power and great fortune.
Meanwhile, Brian Stelter of the New York Times gathers the day’s reactions to NBC’s hirings in a Storify post.
Remember when Luke Russert’s dad died so MSNBC hooked him up with a job and deep into the campaign, as MSNBC’s youth correspondent season, he kept insisting that John McCain resonated with the youth, and he had the stereotypical chubby college freshman in a frat bowl cut as his national television hairstyle? I can never forgive that, that being the latter part of the aformentioned.
We’re registered at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
(via imwithkanye)
Epic: Lawrence O’Donnell Hammers NBC; Demands They Reveal Trump’s Future Plans
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““I have a gun and I have a bomb,” he said. “I have several bombs strapped to my body ready to go off. I have a device that if I drop it, it will fuckin’ explode.””
Discovery gunman to NBC News: ‘I have a bomb’
The man who held three hostages at the Discovery Communications building before he was killed by police Wednesday told NBC News in a brief telephone conversation that he was armed with several bombs he had been working on for as long as a month. Asked how he had learned to make a bomb, the man said that he knew how to weld and read widely but that he also picked up pointers from the TV show “Mythbusters.”
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Al Franken: Stop the Corporate Takeover of the Media
“I thought that they, basically, in the very beginning, should stuff every member of NBC News in that hole.”
Bill O’Reilly on how to stop the oil leak
video at mediaite
The People Of Twitter Think NBC’s Olympics Coverage Sucks
Wanda Sykes Slams NBC’s Black History Month “racist” cafeteria menu On Leno
Questlove, the band leader and drummer for The Roots (the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) tweeted this picture from the NBC Commissary at 30 Rock, with the comment: “Hmm HR?”
(via The Political Carnival)
“This deal is a perfect fit for Comcast and will allow us to become a leader in the development and distribution of multiplatform ‘anytime, anywhere’ media that American consumers are demanding,”
Comcast chairman and chief executive Brian Roberts said in a news release.
The NBC Experience store in Manhattan is selling Obama tee-shirts and action figures, and causing somewhat of a stir.
Much is being made about the Barack Obama merchandise on sale at the NBC Experience store in Manhattan and on the store’s Web site. So we decided to head up to 30 Rock to see what the fuss was all about.
First the backstory.
Last week, Joe Luppino-Esposito, a blogger who calls himself ‘Newark Young Conservative Examiner’ wrote about how the retail store at NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters has been selling the merchandise.
Earlier this week, Maxim Lott of FoxNews.com started asking around about the ethics of a company that owns a national news network and cable news channel selling merchandise featuring the president.
more at TVNewser
