Class, permit your teacher to invoke "muckraker" and "yellow journalism" as practiced by NBC's cable news farm team MSNBC.
Inside Cable News is calling on MSNBC suits to recall Shuster to Washington for "going too far" by crossing the line between journalism and bald-faced advocacy. Recall Shuster was suspended for two weeks during the 2008 presidential campaign for contending Dem prez candidate Hillary Clinton was "pimping out" Chelsea in media appeances on behalf of her mother, pointing to Hillary and Bill's eight years of WH threats to the media to stay away from their daughter.
Young David "Chelsea Pimped Out" Shuster is back in hot water again after a series of "tweets" that turned out to be false, defamatory, and sensational. Shuster was sent to New Orleans to dig into the case of Sen. Mary Landrieu's uninvited office guests - conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and three co-horts posing as telephone repairmen. The four were arrested with the judge ordering O'Keefe to his parents' house in NJ where he has to get court permission to venture outside the Garden State.
Thursday MSNBC brass called Shuster's tweets "inappropriate" prior to conservative media purveyor Andrew Breitbart's agreed-upon virgin appearance on MSNBC with Shuster. Shuster sucked in Breitbart by emailing "I don't have a horse in this race" but once Breitbart was captive on camera, proved otherwise.
O'Keefe produced those ACORN prostitution stings as a contract employee of Breitbart's TV operation. So here's Thursday's Shuster six minutes of toxic air:
False, defamatory, and sensational?
ReplyDeletePROMOTE THAT MAN TO AN MSNBC TALK SHOW!
He's already got an hour in daytime. After the 9-11a "The Daily Rundown" w/Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, they wonder why no one watches them. At least, no one with at least two working brain cells.
ReplyDeleteNow re O'Keefe, I heard that it wasn't wiretapping, but had something to do with how politicians aren't answering their phones. Dumping the calls or letting them ring constantly - something like that. I think it's happening in Nelson's office, Lincoln's and the Landrieu. I think the whole guise was to expose it. Yes, yes, I know - it was done dumbly and illegally.
However, that still doesn't mean Schuster, who is suppose to be
unbiased like all journalists (I know, I know) should do what he did.
But then again, it's MSNBC.
Yeah, O'Keefe wasn't smart about this. I'd like to know who approved Shuster's trip to New Orleans to ferret out the dirt?
ReplyDeleteShuster probably doesn't he think needs any approval. This is NBC/MSNBC - not working with a full deck here.
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