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Tag Archives: Meet the Press
Henry Kissinger's Big Ideas
From Meet the Press (3/27/11): GREGORY: I'll start with you, Ted Koppel. You spent time, in your early days as a correspondent, with Henry Kissinger. KOPPEL: I did. GREGORY: Who knew something about the big ideas for the world. Is … Continue reading
Posted in Mideast, NBC
Tagged David Gregory, Henry Kissinger, Meet the Press, Ted Koppel
11 Comments
What Union Voices Mean to the Wisconsin Debate
As we noted here, there weren't many labor voices booked on the Sunday morning chat shows. One, actually–Richard Trumka from the AFL-CIO. ABC's This Week featured four governors (two Democrats, two Republicans) talking about their fiscal problems. CBS's Face the … Continue reading
Posted in ABC, NBC
Tagged Bob Schieffer, Chris Christie, David Gregory, Face the Nation, labor, Meet the Press, Richard Trumka, Wisconsin
10 Comments
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Media Criticism, NBC, Social Security
Tagged Alan Greenspan, David Gregory, deficit commission, Harold Ford, Meet the Press
17 Comments
At Meet the Press, It's Heads GOP Wins, Tails Democrats Lose
Meet the Press announced that its show this Sunday will feature two conservative Republican guests, Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.). Well, that's only natural, because the GOP did so well on Tuesday, winning back the House…. … Continue reading
Posted in Election, NBC
Tagged Chris Christie, Jim DeMint, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Meet the Press, Tim Russert
13 Comments
MTP Panel: Afghan War Politics Will Change. But Will MTP's Coverage?
Wrapping up a panel discussion (10/31/10) on Barack Obama's post-midterm political challenges, NBC reporter Chuck Todd raised the possibility that the Beltway debate on Afghanistan might change: On Afghanistan, the Democratic caucus that will be left, you brought this up, … Continue reading
Joe Klein on Big Government Breastfeeding
Thispast Sunday's edition of NBC'sMeet the Press (10/10/10) featuredtwo gueststalking about the midterms, the economy and public sentiment: conservative Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and Time magazine's Joe Klein. Klein has been on a road trip through the middle … Continue reading
But Older White Men Are 'Newsmakers'!
A new study of the guest lists for the Sunday morning chat shows finds that the networks prefer lawmaker guests who are white, male, older and Republican. The study was publishedby the George Mason University School of Law's Green Bag … Continue reading
Open up the Afghanistan War Media Debate
Public support for the Afghanistan war continues to drop. Casualties mount. So why is NBC's Meet the Press giving viewers a parade of hawkish pundits and military officials? If you haven't already done so, please join FAIR's call to broaden … Continue reading
WikiLeaks on Sunday State TV
The Afghanistan documents posted by WikiLeaks were obviously the big story of the week. So how did the network Sunday shows react to these disclosures, which have the potential to open up a real debate about the Afghan War? NBC's … Continue reading
Posted in ABC, Afghanistan, Media Criticism, NBC, PBS, War/Military
Tagged Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Need to Know, This Week, WikiLeaks
10 Comments
Karl Rove, Still Lying on TV About Iraq
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove is making the rounds to promote his new book Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. He landed on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday (3/14/10), interviewed by Tom Brokaw. Brokaw asked … Continue reading
Unaccountability: 'A Trans-Partisan Religious Tenet of Beltway Culture'
Blogging from his regular Salon perch (4/20/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald notes that the public wants to investigate U.S. torture (that's what the polls tell us), but: These facts about public opinion are virtually always excluded from establishment media discussions, … Continue reading
David Gregory Mistakes Dow for Opinion Poll
David Gregory, host of NBC's Meet the Press (3/1/09): The Obama stimulus package, $787 billion. The housing plan, $75 billion. That's $2.3 trillion. Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars additional in this document for additional bailout money for the banks. … Continue reading