There's an old joke about how the pundit spectrum in corporate media debates goes from GE all the way to GM. On Sunday's Meet the Press, viewers got a chance to see that joke come to life. On the panel was conservative former GE CEO Jack Welch, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks and NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell. The left end of the spectrum must have been former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr., best known for his time leading the center-right Democratic Leadership Council. Nowadays Ford is a TV pundit (the "liberal" who advises Democrats to move further right) [...]
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Oct
25
2011
Meet the Press Panel: From GE to Morgan Stanley
Filed Under: NBC, Politics Tagged With: Harold Ford, Jack Welch, Meet the Press, Occupy Wall Street
Nov
15
2010
NBC's Sunday Morning Austerity Program
You got a sense from some of the coverage of the Simpson/Bowles deficit commission report that their right-leaning prescription was exactly the kind of solution the corporatemedia could get behind. Charlie Rose could apparently only find two panelists who wished the commissionhad gone further with its spending cuts. On NBC's Meet the Press (11/14/10), the panel discussion featured former Fed chair (and Ayn Rand devotee) Alan Greenspan and far right former Republican politician Newt Gingrich. On the "other" side was Harold Ford, currently thechair of theright-leaning Democratic Leadership Council. A debate from thenear-right to the far-right, inother words.Vanity Fair journalist [...]
Filed Under: Economy, Media Criticism, NBC, Social Security Tagged With: Alan Greenspan, David Gregory, deficit commission, Harold Ford, Meet the Press
