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MSNBC President 'Explains' Why His Network Went Hard Left
NewsBusters ^ | June 2, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 06/02/2009 6:26:20 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Although he sort of admitted it earlier, MSNBC President Phil Griffin seems to have problems stating the obvious: that his network has made a concious decision to feature primarily leftwing hosts (Joe Scarborough being the sole exception in the lineup). Griffin makes yet another stab, in an interview with Rory O'Connor of the Huffington post, at explaining why MSNBC went hard left and the resulting explanation is so painfully tortuous as to be comical:

"The answer is complicated...but simple at same time," Griffin responds. "The network has evolved a lot in the past few years. We went from doing a little bit of everything to doing lots of politics under Keith from 2003-05. We first began to get traction after the Iraq war started, after 'Mission Accomplished.' Then, more and more, politics led the way. When we did well with it in the 2006 elections, we made a decision to become 'the place for politics,' as the late Tim Russert dubbed us - and all of a sudden began to take off a little."

Griffin says that both Olbermann and fellow MSNBC stalwart Chris Mathews "both had a strong point of view about the war -- but our strategy then was simply to hire smart people, allow them to have a point of view, and to be authentic. At the same time, we moved even further toward politics and away from trying to be 'all things to all people.'"


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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msnbc; philgriffin
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Phil Griffin trying in a very roundabout way to state the obvious about MSNBC.
1 posted on 06/02/2009 6:26:20 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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and so, ratings-wise, how’s that working out for ya, phil?


2 posted on 06/02/2009 6:27:23 AM PDT by xsmommy
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It is anything but complicated. It’s about control, money and power in the wrong hands.


3 posted on 06/02/2009 6:27:40 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...

PING!


4 posted on 06/02/2009 6:28:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (E.J. Dionne: "Make the World Safe for Tax Increases")
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To: PJ-Comix

Peter Griffin has more common sense than Phil Griffin.


5 posted on 06/02/2009 6:29:05 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: PJ-Comix

They went hard left and their ratings went South.


6 posted on 06/02/2009 6:31:33 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Phil Griffin would like to know if you are going to San Francisco.


7 posted on 06/02/2009 6:31:36 AM PDT by avacado
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> primarily leftwing hosts (Joe Scarborough being the sole exception in the lineup)

Has the author heard Scarborough lately??? He's slowly "evolving" toward the left -- pretty soon, he should fit right in.

8 posted on 06/02/2009 6:32:14 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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Won’t get me watching or anyone I know. They can go South straight to Hades, IMO.


9 posted on 06/02/2009 6:34:41 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Phil, you are as stupid as your commie anchors you all are waiting for Obama to over throw this government so you can become the only network on the air..just like in the commie countries..We the people are getting more and more upset and one day we will all blow up..we cannot let these commies do to us what the Nazis did to the Jews..
10 posted on 06/02/2009 6:35:02 AM PDT by PLD
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And all this without regard for the country.


11 posted on 06/02/2009 6:38:40 AM PDT by RC2
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“They went hard left and their ratings went South.”

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In any other business, that would mean a substantial change in direction.

Who is propping up these Left Wing media failures?


12 posted on 06/02/2009 6:40:53 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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True


13 posted on 06/02/2009 6:41:41 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Exactly. Why would we want to contribute to people who want to enslave us?


14 posted on 06/02/2009 6:42:12 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: PJ-Comix

When the obama presidency fails so does NBC and it’s affiliates.


15 posted on 06/02/2009 6:42:19 AM PDT by jersey117
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This should be an article about how MSNBC President 'Explains' Why His Network Went Hard DOWN
16 posted on 06/02/2009 6:42:36 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
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You can’t fix stupid!!!!


17 posted on 06/02/2009 6:42:50 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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“Joe Scarborough being the sole exception”

Is this an onion article?


18 posted on 06/02/2009 6:43:51 AM PDT by icwhatudo (For every clinic bombed or burned, 17 to 18 churches are burned down. MSM? MSM?)
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To: PJ-Comix

If his strategy was, in fact, to hire smart people then the mission has NOT been accomplished.

It’s gone very much awry.


19 posted on 06/02/2009 6:44:29 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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Brilliant strategery!/sarc

What an idjyot--ratings in toilet.

20 posted on 06/02/2009 6:45:47 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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