Wednesday, August 11, 2010

CNBC Got Warned About Being Anti-Obama

Ex-CNBC-er Charles Gasparino on how they got pressure from GE (owner of MSNBC) about being too anti-Obama:

O'REILLY: You worked at CNBC. That's a business network. Did you see left wing stuff there?

GASPARINO: There was this issue where Jeff Immelt, chairman of GE, which used to own NBC Universal, called in some of the senior staff, and clearly was worried, according to the people I spoke to who were in that meeting, about the possibility that we were becoming too anti-administration. This is when the Obama administration first took over ... They will deny it, but from what I understand, people got called into this meeting and they were basically, not exactly read the riot act, but the question of whether they were being fair to the president was brought up.

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