Can the Sunday morning talk show be saved?
Washington Post,
by
Paul Farhi
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/18/2022 8:56:06 AM
For the past few months, viewers of “This Week” — ABC’s Sunday-morning public-affairs program — have watched anchors Martha Raddatz and Jonathan Karl roam far beyond the studio, doing interviews with newsmakers in places like Lviv, Ukraine, and Arizona’s border with Mexico. Remote broadcasts are hardly a new concept in TV news, but they’re unusual for Sunday morning panel shows — a genre built around the concept of a cozy Washington-insiders conclave. These on-the-road segments reflect a bit of rethinking and tweaking after years of drift and decline. For decades, Sunday morning’s Big Four — NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CBS’s
Does anyone care about who or what is on the show and the topics?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/18/2022 9:32:10 AM (No. 1280863)
I stopped watching them years ago when it became apparent that they were all progressive platforms of varying degrees of overtness... I switched them off and never looked back.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
downnout 9/18/2022 9:48:45 AM (No. 1280877)
To answer the question.,I hope NOT! They’re nothing more than venues for politicians to spout their talking points. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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mobyclik 9/18/2022 9:50:29 AM (No. 1280878)
Since they all spew the same liberal lies and trash, why not have just one? Then they could crow about the fantastic ratings.
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Catherine 9/18/2022 10:31:55 AM (No. 1280923)
The highlight of my weekend used to be Sunday morning talk show. And I'd watch McLaughlin in the evening, I think on Friday or whenever he came on. Slowly it dawned on me how leftist these people were. (I'm a bit slow on some things.) But you couldn't pay me today to watch any of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Christopher L 9/18/2022 10:59:46 AM (No. 1280963)
I am sitting here right now watching Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo and right afterwards I will watch MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz and then the TV goes black. Then I'll spend time on the internet reading Lucianne ( of course ), Ace of Spades, Instapundit & Conservative Treehouse until the football game comes on.
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MDConservative 9/18/2022 11:07:54 AM (No. 1280974)
The short answer is "no". Political shows depend on conflict, not discussion. Guests are no longer that, but cannon fodder for one side or the other to pummel with stupid and leading questions that embarrass the subject or her views rather than elicit useful civic information for public consideration.
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snowoutlaw 9/18/2022 11:17:13 AM (No. 1280985)
I used to watch David Brinkley but stopped after he left because show became unwatchable.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/18/2022 12:00:07 PM (No. 1281041)
Let's see, ABS, CBS and NBS...I wonder what their topics will be, BS for sure!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msliberty1937 9/18/2022 12:32:18 PM (No. 1281100)
The article fails to mention the "fool Ginsberg" put on by Susan Rice on all five Sunday shows during which she blamed the Benghazi massacre on an obscure video and allowed that lie to be repeated endlessly for years. To my knowledge there's never been an apology from either her, Obama, Clinton, or the moderators of those shows. But, what difference, at this point, does it make?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/18/2022 12:32:18 PM (No. 1281101)
Raddatz and Karl are some nasty, hateful, extreme leftists.....so the answer with them on is "NO".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
athina 9/18/2022 1:46:59 PM (No. 1281175)
Go to church
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PostAway 9/18/2022 2:53:17 PM (No. 1281220)
Possibly. But to what end?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 9/18/2022 3:49:05 PM (No. 1281247)
The Sunday morning talk shows (a/k/a propaganda outlets) were watched only by the people in the NY/DC bubble. The talking heads spouted the Deep State company line so that the company scriveners could then memorialize it in the so-called "papers of record," which would then be regurgitated by the talking heads on the so-called "news shows", thereby completing the circle of misinformation. Nobody else bothers to read, watch or listen to the nonsense. If any of this brings to mind the movie, "The Human Centipede," there is a good reason.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 9/18/2022 7:16:30 PM (No. 1281426)
^^^Just finished reading Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (which surprised me, and a short story by him, which surprised me even more). It was an old book on my parent's shelf, said title always intrigued me, but I never cracked it. Interesting and enjoyable.
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Can Sunday morning shows be saved? Did wapo ask Susan Rice (five appearances on one particular Sunday) about that?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
judy 9/19/2022 6:44:07 AM (No. 1281679)
Sunday Talk Shows are like the polls. Nobody watches . They are used as news sources & talking points for the week.
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