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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Not one word about what Shapton did to the brand?!

February 11, 2015 Brian Williams , Dylan Byers 0 Comments
The Decline And Fall Of NBC News

By Dylan Byers, Feb. 6, 2015, Politico.com

When Comcast acquired NBCUniversal in 2011, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called NBC News "the crown jewel" of his new empire. With good reason: At the time, the news division was dominant on all fronts. 'Today' was number-one in the morning, 'Nightly News' was number-one at night, and 'Meet The Press' was number-one on Sunday.

In four short years, Comcast's "crown jewel" has been tarnished. Not only have 'Today' and 'Meet' both fallen from first place, their falls have been accompanied by the excruciating public humiliation of the programs' top talent. Ann Curry, the former Today co-host, was privately undermined and publicly humiliated before being kicked off the show in 2012. David Gregory, the former moderator of 'Meet The Press', was hung out to dry for over a year before being booted in 2014.

Now, Brian Williams is the subject of an internal investigation into his false claim that he was on-board a Chinook helicopter that was hit by an RPG in Iraq. The Williams controversy has been made worse by the fact that he appears to have continued misleading viewers even as he apologized for his initial error.

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

No, it's the viewers who suffer

February 05, 2015 CNN , Dylan Byers 0 Comments
MSNBC Suffers Lowest Ratings In A Decade

By Dylan Byers, Feb. 4, 2015, Politico.com

MSNBC registered its lowest full-day rating in nearly a decade on Tuesday, a devastatingly low benchmark that shows just how severe the network's decline has become.

The liberal cable news network drew an average of 55,000 viewers in the all-important 25- to 54-year-old demo on Tuesday, its lowest full-day rating since July 2005, according to Nielsen ratings provided by an industry source. CNN had nearly three times as many viewers in the demo, Fox News nearly five times as many.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Time for fresh blood

November 12, 2014 Business , CNN 0 Comments
Morale Sinks At CNN's DC Bureau

Dylan Byers, Nov. 10, 2014, Politico

"Morale at the CNN Washington Bureau is about as strong as it is inside the Redskins’ locker room — and the management is just as bad," another CNN staffer said. 

The latest round of layoffs and buyouts was meant to cut roughly 300 positions from across CNN’s bureaus, or 8 percent of its total staff. In Washington, roughly 50 employees were let go — 27 through layoffs and roughly two dozen through buyouts. Meanwhile, CNN DC has created 20 new positions on the digital side. The network said that a few of the laid-off employees have reapplied for new positions at the network, and at least three have been accepted so far.

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Kremlin or America?

November 01, 2014 Benghazi , CBS News 0 Comments
Sharyl Attkisson Releases Video Of Apparent Computer Hack

By Dylan Byers, Oct. 31, 2014, Politico.com

Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack. The video (above) was shared with POLITICO and appears to show words being deleted from her files without her control.

In her new book, "Stonewalled," Attkisson details how her computers were hacked in late 2012 during her reporting on Benghazi. Attkisson alleges that government agencies were behind the attack, and also claims that her TVs and phone were tampered with. Someone she knows finds a “stray cable” attached to her FiOS box, which can be used to download data.

There is no way to confirm from the video alone that a hack is actually taking place, and there's reason to doubt that Attkisson was hacked at all. In a recent post for Vox, TImothy B. Lee demonstrated how Attkisson's so-called "evidence" isn't necessarily anything more than the "routine technical glitches that everyone suffers." Nevertheless, Attkisson's decision to release the video suggests she plans on using it to make her case. Attkisson will give her first television interview to Bill O'Reilly, of Fox News, on Monday.

As previously reported, Attkisson left CBS News in March after more than two decades with the network, citing frustrations with what she saw as the network’s liberal bias, an outsize influence by the network’s corporate partners, and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting. Sources at the network told POLITICO she increasingly felt that her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on air.



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Sunday, March 23, 2014

"White House Won't Explain--On The Record--Why Reporters Excluded On 1st Lady China Trip" --"Transparency, anyone?"

March 23, 2014 Dylan Byers , First Lady Michelle Obama Travels To China 0 Comments
Source:  Reuters File Photo / Fox Nation
By Dylan Byers, Mar. 19, 2014, Politico
A quick look at how the sausage gets made, or doesn't...

On Tuesday night, The New York Times reported that no reporters would be traveling with First Lady Michelle Obama to China, and that she would be giving no interviews while there. Nicholas Kristof, the Times columnist, called the First Lady's decision "a mistake," and said it "signals weakness or fear of coverage." Several conservative outlets picked up the Times report, including the influential Drudge Report, which linked to a Weekly Standard article about it.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

FLASHBACK--Dead CBS Reporter Walking (May 2013): "The Sharyl Attkisson Approach (Benghazi, Fast & Furious, Solyndra)"

March 16, 2014 Benghazi , CBS News 0 Comments
By Dylan Byers

Sharyl Attkisson has problems.
The Obama administration won’t answer the CBS News correspondent’s questions because her investigations — into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra — often reflect negatively on it. Some colleagues at CBS News, where she has worked for two decades and earned multiple Emmy awards, dismiss her work because they perceive a political agenda. And now, she says, someone may have hacked into her computers.
Attkisson’s one piece of solace may come from finally gaining some like-minded colleagues in the media. For years, Attkisson has been one of the few mainstream reporters pursuing critical stories about the Obama administration. Today, as “scandal season” takes hold in Washington, she has seen her longstanding skepticism of the White House and the Justice Department become the conventional attitude among a formerly deferential Beltway press corps.
Attkisson is a dogged reporter, driven by a strong skepticism of government. Producers at CBS News once nicknamed her “Pit Bull,” a source said, because she gets on a story and won’t let go. But that is seen as both a strength and a weakness. Her drive can produce great journalism, but it can also cause her to push stories to the point that colleagues, especially those of a more progressive bent, suspect a political agenda. 
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FLASHBACK - Politico: "Maher Gives Obama Super PAC $1Mil" --If Koch bros. called "God" a "dick," media would ask RNC to comment.

March 16, 2014 Bill Maher , Dylan Byers 0 Comments
By Dylan Byers, Politico

Comedian and HBO talk show host Bill Maher donated $1 million to the pro-Obama Super PAC on Thursday night.

During the closing portion of a “CrazyStupidPolitics” stand-up special broadcast live by Yahoo, Maher had out a large check brought on stage dedicated to Priorities Action USA and signed with the note, "Kicking Ass!!"


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