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NBCs Meet the Press interim moderator Tom Brokaw has responded sharply to a charge that the network is racist for hiring only white males to host the show.
The charge came from Scott Pellegrino in an article carried by CounterPunch, a mostly left-wing newsletter and Web site.
Pellegrino, a veteran talk-radio producer, pointed out that there have been nine permanent hosts of Meet the Press since 1953 all of them white and all of them male, as though the civil rights and womens movements never happened.
He then initiated an e-mail exchange with Brokaw, asking in his first e-mail to Brokaws assistant if the veteran newsman thought it would be appropriate for NBC to hire a person of color as the next Meet the Press host.
Brokaw responded in an e-mail disclosed by Pellegrino that he is not in charge of selecting the next permanent host following the death of Tim Russert. But he stated that there are many men and women of all colors and backgrounds who are on the long list of possibilities.
Pellegrino, president and CEO of PopDebate and CollegiateDebates which tout themselves as the Webs premier portal for stimulating intellectual exchange among the globe's sharpest minds replied the same day. He said that while Brokaw is not in charge of picking the next host, he more than anyone else at NBC has the gravitas to influence the choice.
When Brokaw did not respond for six days, Pellegrino ratcheted up the vitriol in an e-mail with the subject line Mr. Brokaw, very disappointed in your cowardly silence, asking: Where is your conscience? Is your life nothing more than an exclusive white-male country club?
Brokaw angrily responded: What kind of self-aggrandizing stunt is this? He went out to document his long career reporting on issues of race and advocating racial fairness and justice, citing among other works a prize-winning documentary called Separate and Unequal about the economic and social consequences of the continuing racism in America.
He called Pellegrino a cheap shot columnist looking for an easy headline.
In a later e-mail Brokaw wrote: If I say publicly that NBC must choose an African-American as the new host and then NBC management decides on an African-American man or woman based entirely on merit, what do you think the reaction will be? Oh, he/she got the job simply because theyre black.
In his next e-mail Pellegrino called NBC a racist media company, along with several other media entities he named.
At that point Steve Capus, president of NBC News, sent an e-mail to Pellegrino stating that Tom has finishing communicating with you, adding that Pellegrino is more intent on pathetic cheap shots and deranged rants.
No one is immune to attack of racism, sexism. Agenda's are being pushed, and pushed hard. NBC has been lambasted for moving hard to the left, and in the tank for Obama. IMO, no matter your affiliation this is just one of many examples of agenda pressure.
The charge came from Scott Pellegrino in an article carried by CounterPunch, a mostly left-wing newsletter and Web site.
Pellegrino, a veteran talk-radio producer, pointed out that there have been nine permanent hosts of Meet the Press since 1953 all of them white and all of them male, as though the civil rights and womens movements never happened.
He then initiated an e-mail exchange with Brokaw, asking in his first e-mail to Brokaws assistant if the veteran newsman thought it would be appropriate for NBC to hire a person of color as the next Meet the Press host.
Brokaw responded in an e-mail disclosed by Pellegrino that he is not in charge of selecting the next permanent host following the death of Tim Russert. But he stated that there are many men and women of all colors and backgrounds who are on the long list of possibilities.
Pellegrino, president and CEO of PopDebate and CollegiateDebates which tout themselves as the Webs premier portal for stimulating intellectual exchange among the globe's sharpest minds replied the same day. He said that while Brokaw is not in charge of picking the next host, he more than anyone else at NBC has the gravitas to influence the choice.
When Brokaw did not respond for six days, Pellegrino ratcheted up the vitriol in an e-mail with the subject line Mr. Brokaw, very disappointed in your cowardly silence, asking: Where is your conscience? Is your life nothing more than an exclusive white-male country club?
Brokaw angrily responded: What kind of self-aggrandizing stunt is this? He went out to document his long career reporting on issues of race and advocating racial fairness and justice, citing among other works a prize-winning documentary called Separate and Unequal about the economic and social consequences of the continuing racism in America.
He called Pellegrino a cheap shot columnist looking for an easy headline.
In a later e-mail Brokaw wrote: If I say publicly that NBC must choose an African-American as the new host and then NBC management decides on an African-American man or woman based entirely on merit, what do you think the reaction will be? Oh, he/she got the job simply because theyre black.
In his next e-mail Pellegrino called NBC a racist media company, along with several other media entities he named.
At that point Steve Capus, president of NBC News, sent an e-mail to Pellegrino stating that Tom has finishing communicating with you, adding that Pellegrino is more intent on pathetic cheap shots and deranged rants.
No one is immune to attack of racism, sexism. Agenda's are being pushed, and pushed hard. NBC has been lambasted for moving hard to the left, and in the tank for Obama. IMO, no matter your affiliation this is just one of many examples of agenda pressure.
