As the epic, historic post-debate drama unfolded and RNC Chair Reince Priebus wrote NBC out of the RNC book of life/debates last week, one of our readers made a pretty obvious point. If this were a matter of the President or the White House or Congress or the Democrats axing Fox News, not only would there be a chorus of whining from Fox (understandable enough) but all the other networks would almost certainly be coming together to support Fox on free press grounds.
And here? Well, as far as I can see basically no one, neither the networks institutionally nor the high profile journalists have said anything about the RNC’s fairly comical decision to ax NBC news.
Now, the additional wrinkle here, of course, is that this isn’t really NBC. It’s CNBC. Not a conservative network in the Fox News sense precisely but one that is more or less totally captured by the ideology of Wall Street and thus leans heavily right on key economic and regulatory issues.
As I noted, this whole drama seems more or less ridiculous to me on all counts. Everybody’s got an angle. No one is pure. And mainly this is a spectacle of a political party unable to root out “media bias” from debates it’s running itself! Whatever. But again, we’ve been to this rodeo before when Fox gets excluded by Democrats or the left.
So media bigwigs, why so silent?
Anything?
