Posted on 02/20/2015 9:31:49 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Since facts do indeed have a liberal bias, the programming solution was never to prop up a bunch of liberal figureheads. I would have settled for actual news coverage that didn't embrace "the view from nowhere," as media critic Jay Rosen so famously put it. Both sides don't do it, and false equivalence is not journalism. Take a side! Just allow it to be dictated by actual facts, not some hack from a right-wing think tank. Disclose potential conflicts, don't let your news anchors collect fat checks for speaking to groups they're supposes to cover.
It's really not as complicated as you think -- unless, of course, the real goal is to push the ownership's corporate agenda:
As its afternoon shows hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid are canceled due to poor ratings, MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow.
It was hardly a surprise Thursday when ratings-challenged MSNBC announced the cancellation of the poor-performing afternoon programs hosted by Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid after less than a year, with veteran news anchor Thomas Roberts stepping in to preside over the two-hour block from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Until a permanent replacement is named for Roberts’s 5:30 a.m. program Way Too Early, the 6 a.m. Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski will temporarily take up the slack by starting a half-hour earlier. But according to knowledgeable sources at the Comcast-owned cable network, Thursday’s moves were only the opening salvo in a wider programming shakeup.
In the relatively near term, two well-placed sources predicted to The Daily Beast, Chris Hayes will be relieved of his weak-performing 8 p.m. show All In, to be replaced by the current 9 p.m. host of The Rachel Maddow Show, while a talent search is currently underway to fill the prime-time slot to be vacated by Maddow.An MSNBC spokesperson—who tried put a happy face on the demotions with talk of prime-time specials and “multiplatform” national reporting for the still-employed Farrow and Reid--declined to comment on the Hayes-Maddow scenario.
In the longer term, these sources said, the Rev. Al Sharpton—a larger than life personality who attracts a 35 percent African-American audience but continues, after 3½ years of nightly practice, to wrestle with his Teleprompter--could eventually be moved from his weeknight 6 p.m. slot to a weekend time period, as MNSBC President Phil Griffin attempts to reverse significant viewership slides by accentuating straight news over left-leaning opinion.
↓ Story continues below ↓“Everybody in the food chain from top to bottom understands that the Olbermann era is over,” said an MSNBC source, referring to the glory days during George W. Bush’s administration when incendiary liberal Keith Olbermann regularly attracted a million viewers—many of them seeking refuge from White House and Republican talking points.The MSNBC source said, “Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, but now it doesn’t work any more...The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.”
Ah, yes, let’s reel them in from nihilism back to Communism.
In other words, something more moderate in hopes of fooling conservatives into watching?
They need a complete overhaul. To start, they should get rid of Griffin.
“MSNBC is reportedly planning to replace Chris Hayes with Rachel Maddow.”
Doesn’t look like a move to the middle to me.
I doubt it happens. I do not think they can move away from the far left.
Should just stick with, all jail all the time, like they do on weekends.
Doesn’t look like a move to the middle to me.
Sadly, it probably is to them...
” They need a complete overhaul. “
All MSNBC needs is a lit match.
Sharpton couldn’t read a script if it was tattooed on his eyelids. He’s an opportunistic idiot. The only reason he gets away with his crap is because of apologetic media and the fact that his constituents are even bigger idiots.
How dare they? That's racist! /sarc.
Moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
Fox needs to clean house too and dump Shlep and Whoraldo
Sorry. No can do. They’d all need labotomies to inject common sense and a willingness to study true history and economics.
Yep - replacing Hayes with her twin brother is only a move leftward.
Oh yeah. That’s an upgrade for sure. (Rolling eyes)
Hmmmm. Ping for later.
When they cancel Sharpton and Maddow and replace with them with hosts who arent foaming at the mouth libs, I’ll believe they truly want to turn away from leftist crap. Til then, not buying it.
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