UH-OH: David Gregory Misery Continues

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/this-week-wins-meet-the-press-ratings-trouble_n_3842723.html

'This Week' Comes In First As 'Meet The Press' Ratings Trouble Continues

The Huffington Post | By Jack Mirkinson Posted: 08/30/2013 8:48 am EDT | Updated: 08/30/2013 4:31 pm EDT


Thursday brought good news for George Stephanopoulos--and more bad news for David Gregory.

ABC's "This Week," which Stephanopoulos hosts, won the Sunday show ratings in both major categories for the first time in a year. CBS's "Face the Nation" came in second, and Gregory's "Meet the Press" came in third.

Gregory has been coming in third an awful lot lately. ABC crowed in a press release that "This Week" has topped "Meet the Press" for four out of the last five Sundays.

The latest news came just weeks after NBC was forced to step in and defend Gregory after it was reported that "Meet the Press" has been getting some of its lowest ratings in over 20 years.

Recently, a new executive producer, Rob Yarin, was brought in to oversee "Meet the Press." It's just one of several changes that have occurred in the past year for the embattled news division, which now has a new president, Deborah Turness.

[corkhead]

1. "Dances with Rove" has a sad

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[Octafish]

12. ''Dances with Rove''

Parfait!

[KharmaTrain]

2. Lawrence Spivak Rolls...

...maybe cause this show no longer makes news but is just a place where the usual suspects stroke their egos. Long gone is the original show where you had real journalists with hard hitting questions of politicians....

[whathehell]

7. Who is Lawrence Spivak?

[madokie]

8. Here

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Lawrence+Spivak&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35

[KharmaTrain]

18. Former Moderator...

...from the 60s...considered the best moderator of the show....

[whathehell]

31. Thanks for the information, KharmaTrain. n/t

[PatSeg]

14. They could run edited reruns

and most people probably wouldn't notice.

[spanone]

3. maybe they'll bring in little luke to kill the show entirely?

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. ROFL

His father's legacy. Literally.

[PCIntern]

4. Gregory is a smarmy wanna-be-a-celebrity inadequate putz deluxe.

He sold his soul to the Devil years ago...In his early years he used to ask incisive questions and I was impressed. I realized some time ago that that was just to gain attention and get promoted. He has drunk too much of the Russertade.

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13. I remember when he surprised a lot of people

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by speaking up at the Bush press conferences and it got him noticed. I was impressed, because so few people would push them for answers. It was later that I realized it was a common ploy used to further one's career. He asks terrible questions and Meet the Press is oppressively boring.

[PCIntern]

15. Great minds think alike!!! nt

[PatSeg]

25. Well, at least CONSCIOUS minds anyway!

And if asking relevant questions doesn't get you a promotion, throw a fake tantrum on TV. I fell for that one a few times, before I saw how obvious it was. Or if a cable news personality was pushing a new book, they'd have a moment of well rehearsed anger. There is probably a playbook for these tactics somewhere.

[Egalitarian Thug]

34. LA rich kid whose daddy bought him a career, and it shows. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. I'll never watch that Bush lickspittle ever

They can wrap up Meet the Press in a used, mayonnaise-stained deli sandwich wrapper and throw it into an overflowing dumpster in a garment district alley as far as I'm concerned.

[BlueStreak]

9. Maybe if he puts John McCain on more often ...

[PCIntern]

10. He could have his own channel: MSNBC/MCCAIN

100 senators and he's on semi-weekly. And has been for years. And has-been.

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. The days of propoganda have waned...for now

And the majority of Americans are no longer buying the idea that regurgitation of the Republican talking points is news.

That MTP is nothing but a mouthpiece for right-wing ideas is becoming less and less subtle. And people are tired of it.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Meet the 'Pubbies?

One more reason I'm grateful I haven't watched TV in decades.

[global1]

16. Any Chance That NBC Would Replace Gregory With Tweety?....

"Meet The Hardball Press" maybe?

[Gore1FL]

19. They should restore it to it's old format.

MtP shouldn't be dependent on a single personality.

[Zen Democrat]

20. Agree 100%. It's not Meet the Press anymore, it's Meet the Designated Corporate Shill David Gregory

[Marr]

21. Meet the Press is little more than 'this week's talking points'.

Al Franken said something interesting about it on his radio show once. One of his guests was complaining that the host never asked follow-ups or pressed his guest on even the most blatant, debunked lie.

Franken said he'd asked Russert (the host at the time) about that once, and Russert had told him that wasn't his job. His job was simply to, 'get their positions on the record'.

That's a very kind way of saying 'push propaganda'. The Sunday shows are all like this to one degree or another. They're there to help establishment sorts to put out their chosen narrative for the week.

[Bette Noir]

22. If they want me to watch it, they should put Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes in as host.

I wouldn't watch David Gregory if he were in a wreck on the side of the road.

[on point]

23. It has become 'Meet the Shills' to me. Hopeless propaganda for the PTB

[L0oniX]

24. Why do all even watch that fucking bull shit? Watching fucking cartoons is a bettter endevor.

[Berlum]

26. Meet the RepubliSymps is a poor excuse for journalism

RepubliWankage up the Wazoo.

[rhiannon55]

27. Ugly is as ugly does

I know it's not PC to say negative things about a person's face, but David Gregory looks like a less-than-attractive baboon. I am not disparaging baboons; ninety-nine percent of them would beat him, hands down, in a beauty contest. But every species has its few ugly members; David Gregory, bless his heart, is one of ours.

What makes him especially ugly, the icing on the cake, is his ugly spirit shining through. If he was one of the good guys and not a greedy asshole shill for other greedy assholes, we'd all be kind of fond of his ugly baboon face, but no.

[bravenak]

28. My sentiments exactly.

My husband calls him 'Old chimp face or Mr. Monkey. I think he's more like the great white ape from John Carter.

[irisblue]

29. I watched the MLK/R.Wilkins MTP rerun

the panelists were amazingly different (ignore the racism,) and note how the questions were in depth, the assumption by the questioners was that the speaker would be intelligent, responsive and not repeating PR points.

[David Krout]

30. So Greenwald received an award while Gregory FAILS?

NSA defenders must be seething.

[spanone]

32. watched him with john kerry today...every question was a 'gotcha' question

pathetic interviewer.

[Pisces]

33. This should be Rachel Maddows show!!

[tavernier]

35. hm... well maybe if he added Andrea Mitchell to the roundtable?

And threw in some moments of sage advice from Chuck Todd? and oh! oh! I got it! Once in a while he could have those rays of sunshine, Joe Lieberman and Mitch McConnell, drop in...