he s a great choice. very seasoned been there before. a terrific track record. give him credit, somebody that did it before. one of those moments you can go home. rare in american business. a steady hand a number of challenges. i think it s easy to exaggerate challenges. talk about the williams decision if you want but main broadcasts are still the ones kicked off an excellent story, still all in contention. i don t think you ll see dramatic news there. certainly a nip and tuck demographic, the battle news gets judged. i will keep an eye on msnbc. there you have 24-hour cable channel. andy instrumental with that deal a giant achievement at the time. i think you have real serious problems there that have to be addressed. impact today has to remain stable evening news nightly news does not have large
of things. first, the news worthiness of what carson said. he seemed to be saying cnn emphasized his comments about gays and that was unfair. tell me why his comments are news worthy to you. first of all, the president gave his amazing speech in selma. he talked about gay rights and linked to civil rights gay activists opened a door women walked through, civil rights and gay activists walked through. you can t duck this issue. lgtb civil rights is the civil rights movement of our time as joe biden said. what was really significant about his remarks, for me, how hateful they are, how destructive they are and how easily disproved they are. whenever someone says being gay or lesbian is a choice i say, okay prove it choose it. if it s something you can choose flip a switch and be gay or lesbian, bisexual flip it and show it s how it s done. it s really not a choice. it s not the argument they are making. what religious conservatives are
on tuesday after benjamin netanyahu gave his speech millions of americans tuned into the news. they did not tune into msnbc. the ratings for them were catastrophic. at 8:00 p.m. the factor had five times as many viewers as a program on msnbc. at 9:00 p.m. megyn kelly slaughtered her opposition three to one. slaughtered rachel maddow he says. now, it was not a coincidence o reilly followed up nor was it a coincidence maddow returned the volley right here. well i don t think we have the bite basically she went on and on about the o reilly story. eric she said until fox addresses this matter it shouldn t be treated as a news network. but am i right to think we shouldn t expect fox to say more about the o reilly controversy. well they are not addressing the controversy. if you say, if you re charged with lying and you say our ratings are up you re not answering the question of
how a discredited story like his iraq anecdote got on the air. where were his executive producers, the people fact checking brian williams? they were not there. he doesn t have fans internally right now. i heard many stories. he suppressed stories, suppressed isikoff s story on drone program, justification of killing american citizens with drones rational behind that. brian williams did not want that on nightly news. brian williams also did not want tough lisa meyers on obama care. saying you have the biggest platform at the network for news and you don t want our tough reporting. that s doing to be a really tough bridge for brian williams to cross, come back and say not only did it s a story wrong but now i m going to roll up my sleeves and welcome tough reporting on the show. they are not commenting on the article. they are going tolet it speak