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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 30, 2011, 09:51:05 AM

Title: Tis better to report & be thought biased then not report & remove all doubt
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 30, 2011, 09:51:05 AM
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It’s the kind of accountability journalism that makes readers raise an eyebrow, if it doesn’t raise their blood pressure first. General Electric Co., reported the New York Times last week, earned $14.2 billion in worldwide profits last year, including $5.1 billion in the United States — and paid exactly zero dollars in federal taxes.

The front-page story drew widespread commentary in newspapers and on many Web sites. ABC News and Fox News, among others, were all over it.

But the story was conspicuously absent from the reportage of one news organization: NBC.

During its Friday broadcast, “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” had no time to mention that America’s largest corporation had essentially avoided paying federal taxes in 2010. Or its Saturday, Sunday or Monday broadcasts, either.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on_nbc_the_missing_story_about_parent_company_general_electric/2011/03/29/AFpRYJyB_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

And let's not forget the liberal enclave over at MSLSD.

Fellow biased outlet WaPo calling them out, no less.

Life is getting good.

 :popcorn:
Title: Re: Tis better to report & be thought biased then not report & remove all doubt
Post by: thundley4 on March 30, 2011, 10:55:48 AM
NBC is owned by GE, so it's just business as usual.  I know that Fox reported on Jeffrey Imelt's (sp?) relationship with Obama but did the other networks?
Title: Re: Tis better to report & be thought biased then not report & remove all doubt
Post by: BlueStateSaint on March 30, 2011, 11:55:36 AM
NBC is owned by GE, so it's just business as usual.  I know that Fox reported on Jeffrey Imelt's (sp?) relationship with Obama but did the other networks?

I think that this just may push them in that direction.