NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence?
Via USA Today
NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence?
By David Bauder, Associated Press
NEW YORK — NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree on something.
That something, however, is antipathy toward NBC News.
Through its unusual public criticism of NBC’s handling of Richard Engel’s interview with the president, the Bush administration struck at the soft white underbelly of the news division’s co-existence with the opinionated personalities of MSNBC.
“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Bush counselor Ed Gillespie wrote to NBC News President Steve Capus in a letter pointedly released to the public.
Capus said viewers are smart enough to understand the difference and that the criticism is a reflection of MSNBC’s growing popularity.
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