Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Brian Williams the shill

Visiting with good friends -- mostly liberals -- recently in Wyoming and Montana, it was enlightening to find that their main source of "news", at least of the television variety, was that served up by NBC's Brian Williams.  The news that yours truly found Williams generally far too biased politically and and therefore too big government solution orientated was largely greeted by these friends with indifference. Perhaps they did not find his reporting biased, or if they did, didn't care, or preferred Williams' world view.   This bit of reporting by Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters leaves no doubt for calling Williams what he is: a shill for the Democrat Party in general and Obama in particular.  And why not?  NBC is owned by the largest rent seeking corporation in the US, GE, who probably has more full time lobbyists than any other corporation and who has a huge stake in a large and growing federal government.  Such is the problem with a massive industrial corporation owning a major media outlet that is by the terms of its FCC license agreement supposed to be doing its news coverage business in the interests of all the people without regard to politics.  

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