Soundbite: NBC President On The Chris Wallace Snub

by Steve Krakauer | 1:28 pm, November 16th, 2009

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“Anytime anybody in the political world uses guest bookings as either a gift or in a punitive way, you start playing games with the news. If you’re an administration official, you ought to be able to answer questions from someone like Chris Wallace.”

— Steve Capus, President of NBC News, in a Broadcasting & Cable article about the reinvigorated Sunday show ratings battle.

Capus is referring to the White House snub back in September that saw Pres. Obama show up on every Sunday show – except FOX News Sunday. Chris Wallace says in the article they continue hoping for some administration guests. “We continue to request guests every week,” he said. “My feeling is we’re not going to make it easy on them.”

One other takeaway from the lengthy, wide-ranging piece is CBS’ Bob Schieffer weighing in on the possibility his competitor, George Stephanopoulos, would be hosting Good Morning America. “I think George would be terrific at it,” he said. “But I would just say this: ‘George, I hope you know what you’re gettin’ into, son.’”

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Sunnyr

Who is Steve Capus? pfft!
MikeLI631

He is like ANYONE ELSE in his business…he is always, “being careful”, because you may be working, someday, for the person / company, you SLAG !

AND, Rupert Murdoch isn’t someone you “play with”, in public.

Now, if only those sleazy, Communist-Loving, White House factotums, would realize that advice, we would be spared their failed, naive, “political policy points”, they keep pushing. THEY have been in the cloistered walls of our institutes of higher learning, so long, they have forgotten there is a “real world” out there, and words have consequences.