NBC fires opening propaganda salvo on McCain?

Reader Sid draws our attention to the NBC series, Medium. This Monday, the series will reportedly feature an episode in which a US Senator (from Arizona) hides a dark secret about his actions at a POW Camp during Vietnam (video preview here). Reader Sid states

while in the show the Senator might be a Democrat, come on the show is set in Phoenix. Most likely they aren’t going to emphasize that the character is a Democrat though in the past I believe they mentioned that the DA is so if he is surely his top supporter would be as well.

But the main characteristics of the character (Arizona US Senator, former Vietnam prisoner of war) sure points to McCain. (And like I said he is practically a Democrat).

This is obviously NBC again using its dramas for political motives. Just like they did with their so called “Green Week”.

Look for this as possibly the first salvo for the attempted propaganda-inspired de-inflation of John McCain.

Tags: media bias, Medium, NBC

18 comments February 27th, 2008

NBC: Thanking Troops Is Controversial?

So, allegedly, the reason for NBC’s refusal to air an ad thanking our troops because the ad features the website of the organization that created the ad, and NBC doesn’t, as a matter of policy, allow for such links to be shown when the issue is controversial.

Thanking our troops is controversial?

UPDATE: NBC reverses decision.
UPDATE: NBC Lawyer who nixed troop ad gives generously to Congressional Democrats

Tags: media bias, NBC

51 comments December 8th, 2007