I heartily concur. MTP has become as blind to America's real priorities and the broad picture of American life (as opposed to just American corporate life) as the rest of the (dying) elite-oriented mainstream press and TV media.

Gregory was almost certainly chosen for MTP because he is a spokesman for the corporate masters who run the TV networks. He was selected because he defers to the elites in power much the same way as CBS fired Dan Rather in such an ungracious manner because he questioned those in power.

Gregory is not a journalist. He is a spokesman for the corporate powers. Russert wasn't much of a journalist either. He was interested in making an impact, not so much in curiosity and understanding what really is going on. But at least Russert made a fetish of his working class roots.

America grew and became great because it was and is a middle class hard working nation that rewarded work rather than social class and power. America was consciously not a nation and a society dominated by elites. The elites hate that. So they gave us their spokesman, Gregory.

But that's what the whole conservative movement is about, isn't it? Put the elites in charge, reward them outlandishly, narrow the focus of all big discussions to economics (while letting power and money flow to the moneyed elites) and repress all opposition.

Agreed!

Good rant.

One quibble. The "broad from Caterpillar" was Carly Fiorina -- ex-CEO of Hewlett Packard.

I gave up MTP after the election and I sure haven't missed it. I think the networks are deliberately trying to kill off these Sunday shows. They've become just awful. Even if they weren't biased towards 80 year old billionaire white guys, they're still awful.

Corporations shouldn't be allowed to report the news. They're inherently incapable of producing an objective, fair and balanced product.

It's like mixing commercial banking with investment banking. Who's interests were served? Certainly not the public interest.

I only get NBC when I weekend in the city, but I did catch part of this MTP episode. Schmidt was saying that we were on schedule for a slow recovery. I mentioned to Bwak (on TPMaholics) that I thought our govt had done a great job of saving the rich but hadn't done much for anyone else.

We're on our own.

http://sharonastyk.com/2009/05/29/reinventing-the-informal-economy/

This is probally one of the best reader post i've seen here. Not to mentionn entirely true.

This post will be recommended and thank you tmccarthy0 for writing this and sharing it with us.

At just what point was MTP a decent program?

When it was Dick Cheney's preferred venue, because of his ability to control the message?

Russert was as big a hack as Gregory, but more dangerous because of his ability to appear like an honest populist and without strong bias.

He was an establishment whore, and his tough questions where pre-approved theatrics.

Jeeze.

I wonder if we have ever had 47 recommends on a single post before this? I don't recall ever seeing one. I agree 100%.

Here is the Danish equivalent of Charlie Gibson interviewing Niels Harrit about his explosive scientific paper. Still waiting for Harrit or his co-authors to appear in the US corporate media:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/the-rest-is-silence/