-By Warner Todd Huston
If this isn’t the ultimate hypocrisy? Here we have NBC Universal Entertainment Co-chairman Ben Silverman, a highly positioned member of the MSM, getting all huffy over the fact that an eeeevil “Blogger” leaked his important, behind the scenes company operations on the Internet. “I hate the blog world. … It ends up interfering with people’s lives,” says the MSM kingpin.
This is hilarious for it’s disconnectedness. The MSM doesn’t seem to feel THEY are “interfering with people’s lives” when they do stories that destroy people (hello Richard Jewel, falsely accused as being the “Centennial Park Olympics bomber” by the MSM — or “Scooter” Libby for that matter. And let’s not forget how the “entertainment” media dogged poor Anna Nichole Smith to her death… and after!). Nor do they worry much about the propriety of leaks of information where it concerns national security (hello New York Times’ constant disclosure of National security info). None of those things seem to worry the MSM when it is they being the exposer rather than the exposed (hello Dan Rather and “60 Minutes”).
IMDB.com has a news snippet titled, “New NBC Entertainment Chief Angered by Leak”, on their site today reporting Silverman’s lament:
Newly appointed NBC Universal Entertainment Co-chairman Ben Silverman has castigated L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, who broke the story on her website last week that top NBC executives were planning to replace Entertainment President Kevin Reilly with Silverman. On Monday, TV Week quoted Silverman as saying, “I hate the blog world. … It ends up interfering with people’s lives. It messes with the process.” The trade publication said that Finke’s report “sent the entire NBC dealmaking team into frantic overdrive through the Memorial Day weekend.”
Pile on top of that the attack on “Bloggers” and we get a chief of the MSM that displays a dinosaur-like desire to stay in the 20th century right along with a healthy does of an inability at introspection resulting in blatant hypocrisy.
What are the sayings? Pot – Kettle – Black? Or how ’bout, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”? Or even, “What comes around, goes around”, comes to mind.
… not to mention the saying of “getting a taste of your own medicine”!!
It’s even funnier that this attack on “Bloggers” is one against a correspondent from the L.A. Times who is not really a “Blogger” as much as a duly hired member of the MSM, all with the result that we get a hilarity of blindness displayed by this high and mighty “entertainment” Chief!
So, we are to feel sorry for the Silv-dude because those darn interfering Bloggers “messed” with his “process”, huh?
Look at me…. I’m crying for the inconvenience of the MSM.
Or not!
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, men’snewsdaily.com and americandaily.com among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a guest on several radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
The MSM really hates Bloggers, and it’s because they can’t control us, for the most part, we’re NOT their ‘tools’…
I had a story recently that several of my readers voiced opinions on, the Arab family that had been arrested in the Dallas area and were charged with immigration violations, and for some reason the mother and children were in one jail and the father was in another and our local news guys tried very hard to play the sympathy card, and it backfired on them, and I posted on it too…
Well, the ‘investigative reporter’ that did the story actually came to my blog and posted a really hostile comment, I was quite flattered, we showed the local media for what it is, a TOOL of MSM…
You are sooo right! It just kills them that they are losing the power over the minds of the people that they thought was their right to wield.
You do realise that Ben Silverman is the ENTERTAINMENT president right? You understand that he has absolutely nothing to do with the news content on air? Or that any attempt to connect him with a liberal bias based on what you think of NBC’s news department is baseless and childish, right?
Maybe not.
Amusing to me that you think there is a difference.
Well actually, there is. Silverman has no jurisdiction over Dateline, or NBC Nightly News, beyond maybe when Dateline airs. Steve Capus is. If Steve Capus goes after blogs, by all means call him a hypocrite tool of the MSM or whatever it is you folks say. But why should Silverman be held to journalistic standards when he doesn’t work in an information based medium? Silverman is a hypocrite for going after blogs. But it has nothing to do with “the MSM”. It has to do with his working with Jeff Zucker to stick a knife in Kevin Reilly’s back then playing himself off as a victim.
Sorry, but I see no difference between one arm of the MSM and another. They all act the same way and they all have the same ultimate purpose. Destruction of American culture.