Tag: "NBC"
Old Lefties Never Die, They Just Take New Jobs at Big Media Companies
I’m sure this will turn out well. Vivian Schiller will be joining NBC News as Chief Digital Officer. The announcement was made today by NBC News President Steve Capus. Schiller’s role is a new position at NBC News, as the network expands its leadership team to add management of its digital platforms. She will join [...]
Fun With Bad Polls (Or, Why Won’t Those Wicked Republicans Compromise?)
Ezra Klein, wunderkind of the Washington Post, believes he has the goods on Republicans. His “gotcha” comes in the form of a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on the matter of which party should compromise in order to avoid a government shutdown and all its attendant apocalyptic events. I’ll not recreate Klein’s argument, but I’ll [...]
Nah, You Probably Couldn’t Get Good TV Out of a Political Commentator Tomorrow.
In the new Obamamerica, dissenters will no longer be allowed to inflict their tawdry criticisms of The One on the delicate sensibilities of the American television viewer. The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT. … “We are just not going to have her on [...]
China Goes Out with a Bang, and the Whimper of the Oppressed is Barely Heard
Oh yarf. BEIJING (Reuters) – The Beijing Olympics ended with a blaze of deafening fireworks on Sunday, bringing down the curtain on a Games that dazzled the world with sporting brilliance and showcased the might of modern day China. It looks like China got everything it wanted out of the Olympic Games: a clean bill [...]
China’s Olympic “Protest Zones” Just a Lure to Catch Malcontents
One of the things that soothed people about China prior to the Olympics was that the government was going to specially designate three “protest zones” inside Beijing, reasonably close to the Olympic venues. Folks who wished to protest the presence of the Games, or the Chinese government’s policies, could apply for a permit and protest [...]
Censorship? In China? The Deuce You Say!
Apparently, Captain Renault works for the International Olympic Committee. BEIJING (Reuters) – The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China. As the row over censorship [...]
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