Maggie's Farm

Laura Ingraham speaking to Howard Fineman, via Driscoll's The MSM Sure Grades on a Curve:

How is it though with all these smart people at Newsweek � I went around the block with Evan Thomas about this as well. How did you all think that a guy who basically went from the Harvard Law Review, to some community leafleting, organizing, whatever you want to call it, to a short stint, a few lectures about constitutional law at [the University of] Chicago, very short stopover in the state Senate, and a very short stopover in the U.S. Senate. How does that add up to experience to run the biggest economy and the biggest military in the world? And why wasn�t Newsweek, instead of doing these celebrified covers of Michelle and Barack as historic, and celebrity culture, and all this love-love-love-love-love, why wasn�t � Why weren�t those questions asked before this election took place? Because to me, those were the questions to ask. . It wasn�t about personality. It was about experience and outlook.

and note this bit:

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt gathered the NBC reporters together in early 2009 and scolded them for reporting negatively on Barack Obama. GE owns 80% of NBC Universal.