Jeff Zucker, Top NBC Brass Concerned About CNBC's "Conservative," "Anti-Obama" Image

Huffington Post by Danny Shea | Apr. 16, 2009 (Special Report)

CNBC execs and some on-air talent were called to meet with GE CEO Jeff Immelt and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker for "an intensive, three-hour dinner at 30 Rock." According to Page Six's source, Zucker himself called the dinner, which featured "a long discussion about whether CNBC has become too conservative and is beating up on Obama too much."

In the past few months, two on-air personalities — "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer and correspondent ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 16, 2009

The article references a New York Post article that then is denied by somebody with an interest in denying it.

Never believe anything until it is officially denied. They are biased. They hired these right wing loud strong and wrong dittoheads, they are ... More »

Cramer, for instance, said President Obama was “taking cues from Lenin” and accused him of the “greatest wealth-destruction I’ve seen by a ... More »

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 by Chris J. Breisch - Apr. 16, 2009

One thing strikes me as curious about this story. Oddly, no one at GE seems to be concerned with MSNBC's pro-Obama image.

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