Posted on 06/03/2013 9:04:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"President of McDonald's restaurants: Were not the place to turn for a good hamburger."
“President of MSNBC news network: Were not the place to turn for breaking news”
Yes, it takes time for them to ask their god for and receive permission to print any “news”.
There. Fixed it.
Phil Griffin
The only ‘breaking’ on MSNBC is gas.
Most thinking human beings figured this out a long time ago.
On the other hand, if you're looking for state sanctioned propaganda...
His ‘excuse’ isn’t for the viewer; it’s for the higher ups - the people that own MSNBC. He is trying, unsuccessfully I’d add, to give them enough reasons why it isn’t his fault their ratings are in the sh!tter. He’s trying to save his job.
http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/02/26_hippiephil_lgl.jpg
Phil Griffin started work with CNN during their early years where he met and worked with Keith Olbermann who worked there as a sportscaster. After several years with CNN working primarily as a writer-producer-editor in their sports department, Griffin began work at NBC in 1983 as a sports producer for the Today Show.
Griffin speaks boldly about building “the MSNBC lifestyle” “much more like a general-interest brand than a left-wing clubhouse,” according to writer Rebecca Dana with an eye toward “covering fashion, entertainment, sports, and food.”
Griffin’s new-found cockiness is credited with one of his producers’ new nickname for Fox News, “Loserville,”
In 2003, when MSNBC was on deathwatch, Griffin found himself in Ailess office, on a job interview. As Griffin remembers it, the Fox News chief asked him where he went to college, and when Griffin told him Vassar, Ailes replied, Liberal.
Why do you say that? Griffin asked.
Only liberals go there, Ailes said.
And these days:
Im fond of Phil Griffin, Ailes told me. Hes like the guy next door who wants to borrow your lawnmower. And he does a pretty good job of managing that mean-spirited circus over there. But lets be honest, he built his whole career out of being in Jeff Zuckers wedding party.
Ailes, and “Fox executives mostly laugh at MSNBC and its dreams of cable news domination,” Dana writes. “In 2011, Fox News had profits of nearly $900 million on $1.6 billion of revenue, according to an analysis by SNL Kagan. The same year, MSNBC made $195 million on $420 million of revenue. And to catch Fox, MSNBC wouldn’t just have to sustain its current ratings; it’d have to double them.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/msnbc-phil-griffin-calls-fox-news-loserville.html
The New Republic published a profile Monday of MSNBC President Phil Griffin in which one of Griffin’s producers labels rival cable network Fox News “Loserville.” The piece also includes a quote from Fox President Roger Ailes who refers to MSNBC as a “mean-spirited circus.”
Griffin tells TNR that he expects to beat Fox in the ratings by 2014.
Griffin may not be talking strategy with Jarrett, but his hosts have had multiple off-the-record sit-downs with the President. Rachel Maddow, who heads up the MSNBC primetime lineup, has been to the White House at least eight times, seven as of January 2012. Two of those visits were sit-downs with the President. Maddow’s most recent visit, in December of 2012, also included MSNBC hosts Lawrence O’Donnell, Ed Schultz, and Al Sharpton. Which is more important: that Griffin visited the White House or that his hosts repeatedly did so?
The New Republic piece also omits a mention of the recent Pew analysis which found that 85% of MSNBC’s content was opinion-laden vs. 15% that was strictly “factual reporting.” The figures for Fox were 55%-45%. As I wrote at the time, “MSNBC is everything that progressives imagine Fox to be.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/25/Foxs-Roger-Ailes-MSNBCs-Phil-Griffin-Trade-Barbs
Yes, they’ve got a full plate with AVOIDING all “breaking news”, same for the Obama Administration.
Yes, they’ve got a full plate with AVOIDING all “breaking news”, same for the Obama Administration.
The NBC affiliates tended to have better coverage than Fox, and, up until a few years ago, had [real] journalists on hand to report.
Unlike FNC. They would drive me away by putting on Smith and/or Rivera to cover a breaking story.
Progressive propaganda network; can’t do breaking news because of the time it takes to arrange the spin on it.
Near as I can figure, MSNBC is the place to turn when your lower area is rumbling and you need to find a place to take a bodacious Obama.
MSG=Focuses on the issue of monosodium glutamate in food and drugs, which some people consider is causing their health symptoms.
Were not the place for that, said Phil Griffin, the channels president, in reference to covering breaking events as CNN does. Our brand is not that.
Therein lies a large part of their problem. Of course, that’s in addition to biased, lying, idiot “reporters.”
Who knew?
I thought they were a satire network like the Onion. To show how ridiculous the Left is when they report on current events.
They are actually pretending to spread news?
They're only about as trustworthy as Newsweek or the Amerikan Communist World Guardian...
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