Firewalls?
TVNewser has an interview with Andrea Mitchell. This part caught my attention (and others too)…
2. TVNewser: As one of the longest-serving correspondents for NBC News, my response to critics who say MSNBC’s infusion of opinion during news broadcasts is damaging to the NBC News brand:
Mitchell: MSNBC is helping preserve the NBC News brand by making us the only broadcast network with a worldwide cable organization. It permits us to go live at any time with breaking news, gives us the ability to carry non-stop political coverage, including debates and convention proceedings, and — best of all — merges a new cadre of correspondents, anchors and producers with the NBC News team.
Nothing could be more important to our future. There are plenty of firewalls between the opinion during MSNBC’s prime time shows and the NBC News broadcasts.
Notice that Mitchell carefully sidestepped mentioning MSNBC’s special political coverage tagteam of Olbermann and Matthews and kept her answer to the more restricted comparison of MSNBC primetime and NBC News broadcasts? I noticed. How about a follow up question TVN?
August 5, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I find this interview, especially question #2, to be somewhat bizzare. I wonder if NBC management had any influence in setting this up? Their sharp left turn is obvious to viewers less in tune as our gang of bloggers. On a positive note, although I missed it, I read one of our earlier posts saying that Martin Savage was in the MSNBC anchor chair today. I’m a long time fan of Martin Savage.
August 6, 2008 at 6:29 am
Does anyone have any doubt that Andrea Mitchell is a liberal advocate? She has had a 30 year career of on air support of democrats, the big government liberal agenda and on-air attacks of conservatives and their positions. To call her an objective journalist is just plain ridiculous and hyper biased.
August 6, 2008 at 7:00 am
Keith Olbermann and Andrea Mitchell – a matched set.