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Wednesday, former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice heaped praise on presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden’s “historic” decision to add Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) to his ticket.

NEW YORK (AP) — Time to cut a conversation with Bob Costas short. The new boss — CNN chief Jeff Zucker — is calling on the other line.

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” has come under attack by several former employees who claim that the long-running daytime talk show is hiding a toxic work culture where people are mistreated and fired for taking medical leave and bereavement days.

NBC’s “Late Night” host Seth Meyers called Trump supporters “sociopathic” for wanting children to return to school in the fall term, claiming in his monologue that President Donald Trump “thinks it’ll help the economy and thus his reelection.”

Heading into the Fourth of July weekend, Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on Friday urged Americans to wear a mask if they want “more independence and more freedom.”

NBCUniversal is removing four “30 Rock” episodes that feature characters in blackface from streaming services and syndication. The episodes will also vanish from iTunes and Google Play and other platforms.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce NBC News for its attempt to financially damage and censor two of its competitors, the Federalist and ZeroHedge. But Google, the company that threatened to financially blacklist both sites by pulling their ability to generate ad revenue in response to NBC’s activist reporting, has a track record of censoring conservatives and the Trump movement even without pressure from the corporate media.

NBC News on Sunday displayed the widespread hypocrisy in establishment media coverage of President Trump’s MAGA rallies, posting a cautionary piece on the president’s decision to resume the iconic events in the age of the coronavirus yet failing to extend the same analysis to the massive crowd that congregated for the Black Lives Matter, LGBT demonstration in Brooklyn Museum plaza on Sunday.

The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests is declining over the past two weeks in California, Texas, and Florida, the top three states where the New York Times said on Wednesday cases are increasing, based on a seven-day rolling average.

NBC ‘s Late Night host Seth Meyers exercises his First Amendment right on a nightly basis from his highly paid network TV position. Now the Trump-bashing comedian is shaming the New York Times for allowing Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to practice that same right in the newspaper’s opinion pages.

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

The cast and showrunner of NBC’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” have donated $100,000 to the National Bail Fund to be allocated toward those who are arrested during protests that have sparked across the country over the death of George Floyd.

The media gameplan is nihilism and chaos, which is why the unifying outrage over the death of George Floyd has been twisted into a black v. white issue, a left v. right issue, a pro-riot v. anti-riot issue.

Comedian and performer Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, became the target of criticism Tuesday after video of him performing in blackface in a Saturday Night Live sketch in 2000 resurfaced, going viral on social media.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien hinted at consequences for Hong Kong if the communist Chinese government takes over.

Fans who had been starving for live sporting events had their appetites somewhat sated last weekend.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The return of live golf to television brought 2.35 million viewers across all platforms, which NBC Sports says was 16% higher than the final of the Dell Match Play last year.

President Trump called into an NBC Sports golf broadcast on Sunday, to talk about how important it is to get the country’s sports leagues back on the playing field.

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — NBC’s on-air personalities are taking a pay cut through the rest of the year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

NBC News is set to host a virtual town hall about what it describes as “anti-Asian” sentiment during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, and what can be done about it on a “legislative” level.

NBC News’ Meet the Press was forced to acknowledge Sunday that it had edited an interview of Attorney General William Barr in a way that made it look like he did not care about the rule of law, leaving out his comments on exactly that issue.

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack will leave his post by the end of the month as part of a corporation-wide shake-up, NBCUniversal’s chief executive wrote in a Monday memo to the news organization.

Comcast, the telecom giant that owns NBC and MSNBC lost a lawsuit that alleged the company deliberately stole multiple pieces of intellectual property from TiVo for its cable boxes.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that nursing homes that could not comply with a March 25 directive requiring them to accept coronavirus patients should have obeyed “regulations” and transferred patients if they could not care for them.

This week’s broadcast of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured Brad Pitt as Dr. Anthony Fauci taking jabs at President Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

South Korean officials told the nation’s Yonhap news agency on Tuesday that a CNN report claiming North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was “in grave danger” were “not true” and that “nothing unusual” appeared to be happening in the communist country.

In a Monday interview with NBC’s “Today,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield shined some hope on the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

In a brief preview of an interview which aired Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner, stressed the importance of not delaying or postponing the “constitutionally-required November election” as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

During their respective interviews, neither Tapper nor Todd (both of whom identify as journalists) asked Biden a single tough question, much less a question about what would have been a catastrophic error of judgment had Joe Biden been president.  

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday provided a bleak outlook as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, predicting that if everything to combat the virus is done “almost perfectly, there could be up to 200,000 deaths in the country.

Following a Friday interview with New Orleans Saints star quarterback Drew Brees, NBC “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb was overcome with emotion after discussing the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the place she once called home.

During a Thursday interview on NBC’s “Today,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell discussed the risks taken to help the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

ESPN is looking to add to their Monday Night Football broadcast booth. However, former NFL great and future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning will not be among those additions.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued Americans a stark warning on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic during an appearance Monday on NBC’s “Today.”

Never Trump stalwart, Iraq War advocate, and CNN analyst Max Boot has written an op-ed in in the Washington Post in which he claims that the coronavirus outbreak would not have been as bad if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election.