INQUIRER: … Lawrence O’Donnell, host of The Last Word on MSNBC, the cabler owned and operated by NBC, declared Wednesday that “NBC has created a monster, and it is called Donald Trump.”
Why? Because Trump says he won’t confirm whether he’s running until the May 22 finale of Celebrity Apprentice…
Al Felzenberg, a presidential scholar who teaches at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, says O’Donnell has a point: “The corporate side of NBC is now complicit in one of the biggest publicity stunts in history, and the very fact Trump is both host of Celebrity Apprentice and a vigorous if undeclared candidate, all to pump up ratings – it very much damages the political discourse.” … (more)
