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.”
“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.”
So all this is simply a business decision to try and continue to make money in a marketplace that’s doing a 180! Silly me to think that any big business today would view it any other way. “WE Effed the country to make a buck, and now that no longer works, so we will change and Eff the country from a different direction.” MSM “news” is just a joke! Nothing personal, it’s just about making money!
Oh bull
It never made the money it could have
Rush said it yesterday
The right are news junkies
The left are not
A competitor to Fox would be nice and strip them of their annointing powers
If they were serious about that they would get rid of Ed Schultz and that Commie a-hole Lawrence O Donnell..please..MSNBC go away from being “Left wing” they are already the Commie network if Mao wasn’t dead they would give him a show
MSNBC is an extra row on my program guide I have to scroll through.
That’s exactly what they are crooks and liars.
The Blaze and NewsMax Tv is all we have and they have run into road blocks. Like it or not The Blaze is out of money. They canned some programming. Then we have Newsmax which only runs three programs a day for 9 hours. The rest is documentaries, reruns and other non-political programming.
Maybe at the time you thought falsely that FNC was more right winged, but MSNBC tried to do right wing programming and got nowhere because you thought FNC was more right wing in 2003. But MSNBC had Tucker Carlson, Michael Savage, Monica Crowley, Pat Buchanan and Laura Ingraham on shows that went nowhere.
We are changing our position. MSNBC now stands for
More
Sniveling
Nobodies,
But
Centered
If they want ratings, they need to move away from left wing TV. Their guy has been in office for over 6 years now and the American people feel and see how awful he is and their policies. To keep pushing the same stool sample everynight has taken its ratings toll.
Solution, flush the RAT toilet;, it’s overflowing already.
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