Did Chuck Todd Ask about Sacrifice because He’s Been Asked to Sacrifice?
This might explain why Chuck Todd was so hot to call for sacrifice the other night:
NBC News has instituted an across-the-board freeze on raises for its executives and talent, even those with contracts guaranteeing them salary bumps.
A tipster tells us that NBC News—and probably all of NBC Universal, though we’re not sure—is discreetly calling around and asking its on-air and off-air employees to take one for the team and voluntarily delay any contractually obligated salary increases for six months.
Is it possible that a crack journalist like Chuck Todd doesn’t know that Main Street has been facing what amount to be pay cuts for some time? Since about 1972?
It’s all about Chuck Todd, you know.
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I believe that I left a comment on the Obama press-conference live-blog that Chuck was only bitching because his new salary, as Chief White House Correspondent was going to be subjected to a slightly higher income tax bracket, and that it was just. too. unfair.
looks like I was close….
Josh Marshall and others cut this Todd guy all sorts of slack, but I see no evidence that he is anything other than a moron. At Obama’s first press conference, Todd asked a question premised on the ridiculous assumption that consumer spending was the cause of the recession. A question that dumb ought to disqualify you from staying at the head of the line for the next presser. Yet here he was, the second questioner on Obama’s list, with a question even more surreal and ludicrous than his first (whether inspired by his own pay freeze or not).
I actually wonder whether GE is getting ready to blow. Geithner was asked whether there are any more systemic failures waiting to happen. Geithner didn’t answer. GE woudl clearly qualify (like AIG, it has opted for the Office of Thrift Supervision non-regulation route, and it’s Capital side is in deep deep hurt).
I actually wonder whether GE is getting ready to blow
GE taking the financial advice of their in-house broadcast people?
Nah, it’s probably Jon Stewart’s fault.
Good god, this country is in a world of festering hurt then.
Hasn’t GE been on a downward spiral for quite some time now? Guess maybe that famous Jack Welch “GE way” wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Go figure.
I’m far more laid back about Todd, because I think it’s so fascinating to watch MSNBC wipe the arse of the other networks who didn’t get their hands on cable outlets in the 90s.
I just find it intriguing to watch what they do, and they have some good guests (Dorgon, Levin, Kilcullen, Malcolm Gladwell, Howard Dean). I think they’re still figuring out the Internet, which has so much more scope for programming, plus their ‘traditional’ teevee viewers.
What I find far more intriguing is that Todd was trying to experiment with getting viewer input in creating his question, and that evidently Obama is holding some online web comment time today.
Compared with Limbaugh, or O’Reilly, I’ll take Chuck Todd any day of any year. He appears to be generally interested in policy and political dynamics, whereas I don’t see O’Reilly or Limbaugh as genuinely interested in the complexities of developing or implementing policies on a national/global scale.
(Shrug.)
Oh, and by the way, since Jeff Immelt (a Welch disciple) took over in 2001, GE’s stock valuation has dropped over 80%. As a result of this “performance”, President Obama has, of course, named Immelt to be on of his key “economic recovery” advisors.