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Baitball Blogger

(51,775 posts)
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:47 PM Aug 2025

NBC is reporting balanced news.

After reporting about Trump's claim of DC crime, they provided stats that contradicted him.

They also showed through consumer index prices how everything is much more expensive.

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NBC is reporting balanced news. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 OP
Is the NBC nightly news? senseandsensibility Aug 2025 #1
Yes. Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 #3
I hope they all do. calimary Aug 2025 #2
I wonder how CBS is doing since they bent the knee and even fired Colbert rurallib Aug 2025 #6
I can only tell you MLWR Aug 2025 #14
I wouldn't be able to tell you. Baitball Blogger Aug 2025 #22
I stopped watching anything Paramount mdbl Aug 2025 #23
That's good to know. Katinfl Aug 2025 #4
Small comfort... now that the damage's done. B.See Aug 2025 #5
Better than not reporting on it at all. ShazzieB Aug 2025 #11
yeah.. better late than never, I guess. B.See Aug 2025 #12
A NEWS CORP IS ACTUALLY REPORTING FACTUAL NEWS?!!!!!!! LiberalLovinLug Aug 2025 #7
My local news Billsdaughter Aug 2025 #8
TODAY?! Wowww. Give them some type of award or something live love laugh Aug 2025 #9
Our local NBC news out of Green Bay just did the same thing. Greybnk48 Aug 2025 #10
ABC News also mentioned the crime rates had gone down NH Ethylene Aug 2025 #13
A firm grip on the obvious. TomSlick Aug 2025 #15
I think they are really trying - maybe it's the MSNBC effect FakeNoose Aug 2025 #16
Or maybe they are beginning to realize that it's what the market wants. There are a lot of people who are wise to the Martin68 Aug 2025 #19
MSNBC got spun off SouthBayDem Aug 2025 #20
The Washington Post and NYT have been reporting the same. Martin68 Aug 2025 #17
They also Rebl2 Aug 2025 #18
Here's the deal for Main Stream Media... Dem4life1970 Aug 2025 #21
RIGHT!! Being neutral with the face eating aliens (DC MAGA) is the wrong thing to do uponit7771 Aug 2025 #26
Where's the coverage of the nation wide "music festivals?" PortTack Aug 2025 #24
That's a bad thing, there's no "balance" reporting with MAGA face eating aliens. They should always report on them ... uponit7771 Aug 2025 #25
I wouldn't know about NBC news until 4 PM, gab13by13 Aug 2025 #27
I'm another one who hated seeing Olbermann got the axe. calimary Aug 2025 #29
Be Careful, NBC . . . Scubamatt Aug 2025 #28
So it finally happened . . . FoxNewsSucks Aug 2025 #30
CORRECTION: NBC is reporting FACTS. (Fixed It For Ya.) It's The OTHER Sham Networks That Are Pretending To Be TrollBuster9090 Aug 2025 #31

senseandsensibility

(24,263 posts)
1. Is the NBC nightly news?
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 05:51 PM
Aug 2025

Just curious. I also like their news website. It is much better than cnn.com.

rurallib

(64,569 posts)
6. I wonder how CBS is doing since they bent the knee and even fired Colbert
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:06 PM
Aug 2025

they seem to have a stake in making Trump AND all the MAGAts look good.

Edit to add - I haven't watched networks probably since maybe Jimmy Carter was president.

MLWR

(793 posts)
14. I can only tell you
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:08 PM
Aug 2025

That Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow are spinning in their respective graves. CBS stays far away from anything that could be interpreted in any way as controversial.

Katinfl

(650 posts)
4. That's good to know.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:03 PM
Aug 2025

Have not watched network news in years because I get it all online. I often wonder what the general public is hearing so this gives me some hope.

ShazzieB

(22,240 posts)
11. Better than not reporting on it at all.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:38 PM
Aug 2025

When the media acts like everything is peachy keen and perfectly normal, it feels like a slap in the face to me, like a great big FU on top of everything we're already going through. At least NBC is pointing out that he's wrong and telling it like it is.

And think of how pissed he'll be. He can't stand to have his lies contradicted , and he's going to HATE this!

LiberalLovinLug

(14,589 posts)
7. A NEWS CORP IS ACTUALLY REPORTING FACTUAL NEWS?!!!!!!!
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:11 PM
Aug 2025

Even if disturbs the orange man child? That's just cray cray

live love laugh

(16,210 posts)
9. TODAY?! Wowww. Give them some type of award or something
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:22 PM
Aug 2025


Oh wait … didn’t sister company msNBC also gut Rachel Maddow’s staff and fire Joy Reid?

Greybnk48

(10,670 posts)
10. Our local NBC news out of Green Bay just did the same thing.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 06:29 PM
Aug 2025

They first presented why the troops were called out in DC, to combat a big uptick in crime. Then they reported that records show that the crime rate in DC is actually down quite a bit and has been for a while.

I loved it!

NH Ethylene

(31,294 posts)
13. ABC News also mentioned the crime rates had gone down
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:02 PM
Aug 2025

More than once in their segment on the National Guard going to DC.

FakeNoose

(40,324 posts)
16. I think they are really trying - maybe it's the MSNBC effect
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:42 PM
Aug 2025

I don't know, maybe some of the smarter people at MSNBC are having an effect on the main network.
They don't have to play footsie with Chump the way CBS did. I'm sure that's part of it.

I try to watch the NBC Nightly News every day, if I can. My cable plays their show on repeats, so I can catch it later.

Martin68

(27,129 posts)
19. Or maybe they are beginning to realize that it's what the market wants. There are a lot of people who are wise to the
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 07:56 PM
Aug 2025

ways of media that is all out for MAGAts. Not everybody has been corrupted by Dumbo and his clown posse.

Dem4life1970

(1,047 posts)
21. Here's the deal for Main Stream Media...
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 08:46 PM
Aug 2025

...if you want to survive in the Post-Trump World, which IS coming, probably sooner rather than later, start reporting like the Meidas Touch Network does. If not, you will continue to see your
audience shrink, and demographics will eventually catch up with you.

uponit7771

(93,491 posts)
25. That's a bad thing, there's no "balance" reporting with MAGA face eating aliens. They should always report on them ...
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 12:19 PM
Aug 2025

... like DC MAGA are the bad guys.

Reporting facts is not balanced it's just their job

gab13by13

(31,351 posts)
27. I wouldn't know about NBC news until 4 PM,
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 12:54 PM
Aug 2025

I watch freespeechtv.org for my morning news, Wednesday is Malcolm Nance Day, he was on fire as usual.

Many here on DU would not like everything he and Stephanie said this morning, had to do with fighting fire with fire.

I start watching MSNBC at 4 PM when Nicolle comes on. Many here at DU would not agree with what her guests said yesterday, about how Democratic voters are ahead of Congressional Democrats regarding understanding the dangers our democracy is facing and how to fight back. The panel did say that Congressional Democrats have time to catch up. Marc Elias said that Republicans are going to use AI to draw up voting maps and in those maps Democrats will not be able to win.

I like Symonne at 7, but usually don't watch, I like Rachel one day a week, I like Lawrence but am usually headed for bed.

MSNBC fired my 2 favorite cable news anchors, Dylan Ratigan and Keith Olbermann. Hated it when they fired Mehdi.

Should have given Katie Phang Ari Melber's slot.

With that said, I never watch the other networks, never. Yesterday was the first day in a while that Nicolle did not lead with Epstein.

calimary

(89,141 posts)
29. I'm another one who hated seeing Olbermann got the axe.
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 01:54 PM
Aug 2025

Last edited Wed Aug 13, 2025, 04:42 PM - Edit history (1)

He was “must see TV” as far as I’m STILL concerned. For me, anyway, other anchors have connected that way since.

TrollBuster9090

(6,114 posts)
31. CORRECTION: NBC is reporting FACTS. (Fixed It For Ya.) It's The OTHER Sham Networks That Are Pretending To Be
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 05:44 PM
Aug 2025

... 'balanced.'

"Trump says crime is out of control in D.C., while Democrats say it's at a 30 year low." That's the kind of 'fair and balanced' horseshit that I'd expect to hear, oozing out of Jake Tapper's putrid pie hole.

When you report facts, that's not called balanced news. It's just called 'NEWS."

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