NBC: State Sanctioned Misogynist Lawrence O'Donnell

In recent months, many Americans, such as myself, have become increasingly frustrated with national media coverage.  Part of this frustration comes from media topics that are not even being addressed in the stories, or information that isn't even covered, giving rise to citizen journalist outlets.   The other aspect of this media bias is the treatment of media personalities of the people who are being interviewed in the main stream media (MSM). While Sarah Palin was poorly treated by the media, that was mild compared to today's media..

The most recent outrage in behavior has been MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. He seems to take particularly sick delight in the role of Spanish Inquisitor against a variety of "guest victims." His show, Final Re-Write, seems to be inspired by the treatment of the Catholic Church toward Galileo rather than by journalism as it was taught in years gone by. In his interview of Orley Taitz, he interrogated her in a particularly demeaning fashion as he attempt to extract a confession and then threw her off the show when he was unable to intimidate her. In another interview, he pursued the same misogynist tactics against Condolizza Rice. Time and time again, Lawrence O'Donnell completely disrespected her experience, rank, and position and attempted to extract a confession from her that the War in Iraq was a failure. Because Mrs. Rice is an experienced negotiator, she was able to gracefully put Mr. O'Donnell in his place.


Ten years ago, these sort of interrogation tactics against women would have been viewed with great public disdain and outcry. The National Organization of Women would have been marching in the streets, leading boycotts against these media outlets and their sponsors.  Yet now, there is silence.  In my utter disgust, I wanted to write to the owner of  NBC to complain. But who would I be complaining to? I wasn't exactly certain, so I set out to find the facts on who owns NBC, and why their rude treatment is allowed to persist as some kind of facade of journalism. I wanted to try to find out, who is in charge of the show? Who would I protest? Who do I write to? Who is the money behind this bizarre behavior?


As Brian Williams often mentions on the NBC Nightly News, General Electric is the parent company of NBC. Well, that seemed straight forward enough, because  General Electric's CEO Jeffrey Immelt was also on  President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.  But then I remembered that Jeffrey Immelt was under some kind of Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, and was fined a substantial sum of money. So, I didn't really know if Immelt was still the CEO of GE. Even so, certainly as CEO, Jeffry Immelt had to answer to someone?  


Upon closer inspection, I knew I had to find out exactly who Immelt reported to at GE. After all, CEO's are hired and fired too, and there is often a major holder on the board of directors. Sometimes, it is easier to raise issues of sexist and race through major players on the board of directors, or major shareholders, or major debt holders. Amazingly, I found out that General Electric, with its AAA Moody's rating relies substantially on Commercial Paper to run its daily operations. What I found, starting with October of 2008, that the entity that held most of GE's Commerical Paper was the Federal Reserve.  Indeed, as recent documents reveal, GE was the main non-bank recipient of Federal Reserve Bail Out Money.   
 

So, now I am beginning to see the picture. The Federal Reserve owns GE. Jeffry Immelt is the CEO for GE and also works for President Obama. In turn, GE owns NBC and its various cable and internet outlets.  So, Jeff Immelt works for both the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake through GE and for President Barack Obama through the Economic Recovery and Advisory Board? Since Jeff Immelt also owns NBC through GE, then who is controlling the news?  So, I now wonder, is misogyny the policy of the Obama Administration? GE? The Federal Reserve?  Is this activity something that is state sanctioned? President Obama, would you like your daughters and your wife treated like that?

Who is controlling the news content?  Who is allowing this misogynist treatment to persist on the part of Lawrence O'Donnell?  Now I understand what author Craig Smith means when he calls America's media turning into CHINA-STYLE “CRONY CAPITALISM."  For Tienaman Square, turn on Lawrence O'Donnell. For news you can trust, you'll have to go somewhere else.