NBC's Jeff Zucker picks up the slack for Tucker and attacks Jon Stewart
Bowtie Guy thought he was the only one man enough to criticize Jon Stewart in the media, but now his old boss is taking up the slack and going on the offensive, attacking Stewart for having the audacity to tell the truth about CNBC's coverage of the financial sector.
NBC Universal's CEO said this at the BusinessWeek media summit:
NBC Universal CEO went out of his way to blast Jon Stewart's ongoing dissection of CNBC's ludicrously amped-up coverage of the stock market train wreck, saying that "just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn't mean it's true." Of course, that's the exact definition of being out of touch: When everyone else is looking at your financial network and seeing a bunch of ratings-obsessed charlatans who, though they surely knew better, talked up a host of terminally ill companies that were about to collapse, you look at your financial network and tell a media conference that "CNBC is a spectacular organization that's done a tremendous job."
The next thing you know, Zucker will be saying Ben Silverman is doing a wonderful job of running NBC too.
What I found especially appalling about Zucker's remarks was his faux populism. Here's a guy who travels on a corporate jet, whose salary, bonuses and stock options are probably right up there with most of AIG's bonus babies (Zucker doesn't have to disclose his compensation, but his predecessor in the job, Robert Wright, earned $17.8 million in 2006), yet he has the nerve to act like he's in the same boat with the rest of us, telling the audience, "Everybody wants to point a finger -- I'm upset that my 401(k) isn't what it was too. ... But to suggest that the business media is responsible for what's going on now is absurd."
Buzzmachine has a good observation too:
The press didn’t cause us to go to war in Iraq, he said; a general did. The press missing the financial crisis didn’t cause it. “Both are absurd,” he said.
Really? I think that says that the press has no importance and no role in public policy. Doesn’t matter if we miss the story, he’s saying. It’s not our fault. Will he take no responsibility?
I'm confused. What is the function of the press then? Are they only supposed to hand out doughnuts to their favorite politicians during a major campaign? Is that their role?
They have been given certain freedoms so they can police the government, but Zucker is abdicating that right. We need investigative reporting immensely because of the need to uncover the Watergates in the Beltway. Without the press monitoring the system all hell could break loose. Oh, wait. it already did.
See also:
Moyers on the Neocons and William Kristol
Moyers and Russert and Cheney Oh, My!
Bill Moyers Rips MSM Complicity on "Real Time"
Moyers: Roger Ailes didn't want to "Scoop himself." WTF?
Are we heading towards a 1929-like economic crash?
Bill Moyers' Journal: Inside The White House's War on Terror
don't watch CNBC--it is bad for the economy
CNBC, jeff fucker, and the businessweek media "summit" could all be rounded up, put on a raft, floated out to the open ocean, and be completely forgotten--and the economy would be better for it.
who'd pay to clean up all that damn slime?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79_ljVC5Wk
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Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
bald headed stooge.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Baldness has nothin to do with his stoogiosity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq1yHohTWMc
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Jeff Zucker has no shame. Anyone have this Bozo's email address? He deserves to hear from you... you know?
Executive Producer Jeff Zucker
jeff.zucker@nbc.com 212-664-2830
http://www.newswatch.org/mediacontact.htm
[disclaimer: i have yet to ascertain if the phone number is current]
I never put the names together.
tucker zucker FUCKER
Same guy?
I thought that young loudmouth punk disappeared.
As stated, Zucker seems to be living in his own bubble as usual.. These clowns don't seem to get it after years of trying to slam it into their brains...They just continue to lie....
The public is swayed by what the media says - FIRST law of all advertising and mass media strategies. So when CNBC says it's 'First in Business Worldwide ' as a competitive tag line against advertising slogans of their competitors they aren't trying to sway the public?? Right..
So when some the CNBC talking faces say 'buy, buy, buy' something the public just ignores this?? I don't think so - as the security goes to ZERO..especially lately.
Many think Cramer is the jackass, stubborn, anti-establishment wizard against Wall Street and for the people. HA ! It's just an act. Designed to get ratings for Zucker's network...period.
Then you have jackasses like Kudlow and today Haines saying only rich folks can run and speak wisely on CNBC - not the pedestrian folks that make less than $250,000 per year...What complete crap...
Zucker and ALL his minions at CNBC and beyond need to get off the rolling KoolAide express...It's run out of product...
when being in television journalism and the print media was an honorable profession with the likes of Cronkite, Murrow, and even Rather. Now days it's about the access and the money. Journalist were there to protect the people now they fight against them. Luckily we have the internet. More and more people are turning to the internet to get factual news and these morons know it. That's why they attack the blogs.
is intended to be a factual statement
At the very least, Zucker should've fired all those talking-heads-posing-as-journalists for ineptitude. If they truly weren't complicit, then they must've been incredibly lazy or stupid to NOT see this coming. In other words, they completely failed at their jobs in a massive way.
Doesn't this idiot understand that the more vigorously he defends the indefensible, the stupider and more guilty he looks? All his protestations fly in the face of reality, and anyone with an ounce of brains knows it.
Hey Zuck Boy: You and Tucker are way out of your league. Better to let it go, lest Stewart unload on you again.
Tucker & Zucker. Two new handles.
Jagoffs...
is getting a lot of free publicity lately. Good or bad publicity is still publicity for entertainers.
Maybe people who haven't watched him will tune in and turn on to his charm.
Screw the fucktards who don't dig him.
I wonder how big Zuckers bonus will be for getting in front of all those people and spewing this crap.
A trio of mewling boobs:a Tucker,a Zucker and a whinging little Fucker.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Is this Ari Fleicher's twin brother? Same attitude of entitlement, same arrogant "I know what's best for you" corporate/mic message, same ghoulish quality of the zombie villagers in DC. How long can cable get away with the shameless daily brainwashing of America?
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
I was thinking the same thing. These two assholes look alike, speak alike, etc. Uncanny.
The business media aren't responsible for what's happening now
They're responsible for not reporting it accurately
Even misrepresenting questionable financial instruments
And they're just arms on the corporations who are responsible.
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They use the excuse that they didn't actually "cause" any of this to deflect from the pathetic fact that they also didn't report on or expose any of it.In fact they celebrated,and continue to celebrate,the whole greed head culture.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
NBC is going on the attack because they know they've been seriously wounded, they've been shown to be court jesters, either willing fools or unwitting dupes.
NBC has to go all Dick Cheney on Jon Stewart or admit that it's been massively full of it for a decade.
First, of course press coverage is culpable in both the decision to invade Iraq as well as this financial collapse. In their role as "official stenographers" for the government, financial institutions and CEOs, the media simply reported carefully crafted public statements as fact and took no effort to discern if these were actually facts or if there was more to the story. If more journalists actually dug even an inch deeper, they would see the reality of the situation.
Jon Stewart made the point very clearly in his interview with Cramer. Cramer, as a perpetrator of financial shenanigans should have known that he was being sold a bill of goods and exposed the deceptions. Instead, he smiled and thanked his interview guests for their time.
Second, even if Zucker is correct that press coverage of the run up to the Iraq war and the financial industry had zero affect on decisions made and the huge mistakes made, then what he and others in the media are saying is that these "news" organizations are so terrible at their jobs that they miss the biggest collapses, terrible decisions, miscalculations, manipulations, etc.
So they are admitting either irrelevancy or incompetence.
Be a stand up guy and just go on "The Daily Show."
that's why the brave big boy attack from the Ivory Tower.
me-oww!
guess you'll be on duty then, miss kitty.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
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always be on Stewart. He pokes fun at all. He calls bullshit when he sees it, he appears to have no master other than the drive to poke fun at that which is absurd.
I'm mystified by these people who want to position themselves as experts, sell themselves as experts, push their opinions/talking points as news and then try to distance themselves from the results of their "advice."
Zucker is a pussy. I dare him to stand up and spout this shit in a room full of individuals whose 401Ks have tanked or lost heavily in the market.
... has the advantage of not being emotionally invested. He plays for laughs, which is a hell of a lot easier than being A Very Serious Businessman like Zucker.
My money will New
Fri, 03/20/2009 - 11:17 — boocilla69
He pokes fun at all. He calls bullshit when he sees it...
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We do in Texas too
When we check the soles of our pointy rattlesnake-kickin' cowboy boots.
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Zucker and Tucker? Somebody call Snow White and tell her we located the 2 missing dwarfs.
McCain: "Sprinkles! hee, hee, hee, hee.....!"
Reminds me of the episode of The Simpsons when Homer peeled off that gummy Venus De Milo that was stuck on the baby sitter's butt
I can't be the ONLY ONE out here who is sick to death of the dog and pony show served up on TV and CSPAN.
These guys are having hearings to MAKE BELIEVE they're doing something, when all they're doing is PROPPING UP THEIR SCAM CAPITALISM SYSTEM until they can get the people all knuckled down again for another run at 50 years of under employment and low pay.
WHEN WILL WE SAY ENOUGH?
When will we let them all know we don't want this game anymore? We want a system that rewards honesty and hard work; OURS! ! ! It's our country, let's take it back.
QUIT PAY TV. BANKRUPT THE BASTARDS. See how THEY like it.
COME ON GUYS!!!
C&L will always let you konw what's going on, you don't need to SUPPORT THEM with your dollars. They don't give a damn about your views, all they want is your MONEY.
QUIT giving it to them.
Here here... I've stated before and will again. Guillotines work. Start building them out across the street from their corporate offices and start chopping watermelons in half and point up at them.
Let them know they are on notice.
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
Didja see the leaked Security memo for AIG yet?
These fascists are really scared...but evidently, not scared enough.
http://gawker.com/5175745/aig-corporate-secur...
is gonna do much damage to TDSWJS.
I suspect more people watch the half-hour TDSWJS on any given night than watch all 24 hours of CNBC any give week...
Zucker forgot to put on his white greasepaint, red nose and orange fright-wig.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhuBIkPXn0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1y_YsxANo
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Of course neither of these konservative kowards will dare go on The Daily Show and say this to John Stewart's face.
at least Cramer had the cajones to defend himself/take his medicine.
Love to see Tucker face off with Stewart again!!!!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
He can zuck off.
Wow, attack the big corps and they attack back.
The TRUTH DOES NOT NEED DEFENDING.
We as a society should destroy one evil psychotic corporation a day. It's our duty as citizens to revoke and reclaim these monstrous institutions.
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
Zuckerman says, "just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn't mean it's true."
WHAT "authority"? Zuckerman's? What a pompous ass!
Why are we being mean to poor Mr. Zucker. He is absolutely correct. From the very first CNBC intended to be shills and pimps for worthless stocks and even more worthless CEO's. They have been spectacularly good at it. It is also correct to say:"just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn't mean it's true." In the case of CNBC it just happens to be absolutely true that someone who mocked authority was correct. Kind of a happy (and frequent) coincidence in the case of Stewart.
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It always has been and always will be about The Fairness Doctrine. The press DOES have a responsibility to report news of interest to the community. When the Fairness Doctrine was in effect, they could lose their broadcast license if they didn't.
... every station is required by law to have a 'public file,' that viewers can request to see, which documents their mandated community-oriented programming (usually locally-produced shows that air early Sunday morning).
You can still lose your license if it is determined that you are not serving the community, a term that is wider in scope than simply reporting news of interest to the community.
The Fairness Doctrine only covered broadcast media not cable.
There used to be such a thing as Journalistic Ethics though.
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Turn off the tvs. Cut up your credit cards. Hug your kids and turn them away from indiscriminate materialism.
THEN watch the corps change their tune.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
completed your bracket do so now: http://act.credoaction.com/bracket/
We all have some tough choices to make.
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Coming to your Sears Craftsman and SNAP tool mans van soon!
Jeff Zucker's Tool Set! The one tool set for all roundhead,knucklehead,chucklehead and blockhead applications!
When it comes to tools nothing beats a Jeff Zucker!
Lowest Common Denominator as main determining factor much?
How do guys like Jeff Zucker make it to the top anyway?
Taking a WKRP Qualified test? Sheesh!
"What is the function of the press then?" "They have been given certain freedoms so they can police the government, but Zucker is abdicating that right"
Sure (mother-)Zucker can do that with a conscience, because he is a corporate puppet. The string pullers pay handsomely for monkeys like him. The problem is in the corporate ownership protecting its interests but playing like it is providing a public service, which it most definitely is NOT
"The press didn’t cause us to go to war in Iraq, he said; a general did. The press missing the financial crisis didn’t cause it. “Both are absurd,” he said.
I can't stand all the false accusations anymore! Stop looking for blame, all of you, and stop the incessant arguing. It wasn't the White Houses fault, it wasn't Congress, it wasn't Wall Street, it wasn't The Media.
*I* did it. I, Little Davey, caused the economic downfall. I was to blame for Iraq too. Can we go back to normal programming now? I feel SO much better getting that off my chest.
Come on, everyone knows it was me.
And in my spare time, I'm plotting the destruction of Christmas, Christianity, traditional marriage, school prayer, and the teaching of intelligent design in Science classes.
Oh yeah, well OUR liberal hippie democrat two-weekly meetings are plotting the forcing of socialist values upon all Americans!
Oh yeah?!
Well...well....MY liberal hippie democrat COMMUNIST, fascist, McCarthyist THRICE weekly meetings are plotting not only the forcing of socialist values upon America, but will also force everyone to watch MSNBC, eat tofu, and help other people that they DON'T EVEN KNOW....for FREE!!!
And also...we're gonna make them all eat pot brownies and watch Monty Python.
According to my doctors the only thing I'm messing up is me.
My kidneys, pancreas and liver are going flooie.
We may be able to undo a lot of the damage, but if nothing is done, they figure I got five years to live.
But on the plus side my onions are fine.
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that sucks...
Sorry to hear that.
I'v already gone a week without a drink or a smoke.
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HA!
These clowns are soooo afraid of John Stewart.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
I mean they really took a long, long time. And what have they come up with, nothing but sez you and he is a comedian. If a comedian can do it, then perhaps they should be selling light bulbs or aluminum siding over the phone instead of seling securities on TV.
The free-market proponents, including much of NBC, seems to think there should be simultaneously no (or reduced) regulation, and also no roll of oversight for a free-market based entity. The obvious free-market entity that has a chance of playing a regulatory roll is the media. So if these asswipes are going to say it's not their job, and also not government's job, then they're delusional.
In particular as it applies to banking: fractional reserve banking is an inherently insolvent system. It is granted a license to operate in that fashion by government, and its deposits are guaranteed by the government at a cost far less than the real cost to insure. Banking as it exists today would not exist in a free-market. So, again, for these mental midgets to be advocating deregulation and no roll for media in oversight, of an inherently insolvent business practice (and arguably questionably fraudulent) is truly impressive. But not in a good way. These people need to be exposed for the goof offs they are. We only need to take them seriously only because of the position their in, and decisions they make that affect all of us. Otherwise they are laughable.
The Press has become nothing but an infomercial for Corporate Greed.
Donaldd
CNBC sees fit to place a disclaimer disavowing anything Jim Cramer says into every show he does. Until that disclaimer or Cramer is gone, Jeff Zucker ought to keep his mouth shut about Jon Stewart. Comedy Central doesn't put any disclaimers on The Daily Show nor does MSNBC disclaim anything Keith Olbermann says.
Those should be major clues for Mr. Zucker.
ABC, NBC, CBS -- they're all complete trash and we never watch them. Why watch garbage?
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Another rich, ignorant, Dickhead Reslug, just shooting off his stupid, partisan mouth.
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