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MSNBC shake-up: Al Sharpton to lose nightly show (spox says left-wing TV a goner)
rollingOut.com ^ | 2/23/15 | MO BARNES

Posted on 02/23/2015 7:46:59 AM PST by Liz

The Brian Williams suspension has caused a shake-up at MSNBC. The Daily Beast is reporting that Rev. Al Sharpton may lose his nightly time slot. “Politics Nation with Al Sharpton,” has aired since 2011 and has had a successful run.

At issue is a steady slide in viewership....Chris Hayes is to be replaced by the “Rachel Maddow Show.” Maddow moves from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m., while a search is underway for a new host for the vacant time slot.

Sharpton’s show is rumored to be moving from nightly 6 p.m. to weekend-only. Sharpton attracts a solid 35 percent Black audience and is considered a lightning rod of controversy because of his activism on behalf of the oppressed. There has been no word from the Sharpton camp on the rumored changes.

The source at MSNBC stated the programming decisions were part of a change in MSNBC'S political mindset: “Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted, and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, but now it doesn’t work anymore…...The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.”


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; msm; msnbc; sharpton
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To: C210N

He’ll have to become an FBI stool-pigeon again.


21 posted on 02/23/2015 7:56:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: TomGuy

Talk about George Orwell territory!


22 posted on 02/23/2015 7:56:26 AM PST by Jean2 (ox)
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To: cuban leaf

MSNBC does not need to be financially successful. It is a small part of Comcast/NBCUniversal. Search-engine it to see just how vast NBCUniversal is.


23 posted on 02/23/2015 7:56:27 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Liz

The first thing they need to do is get rid of the COMCAST CEO. The next thing is to get rid of Phil Griffin at MSNBC and then clean house to include Rachel Maddow and start over.


24 posted on 02/23/2015 7:56:35 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: MinuteGal

Is anybody in this country ‘oppressed’ any more?

I can’t think of any truly ‘oppressed’ people at all, unless you want to call people that are too sorry to get off their couches and make something of themselves ‘oppressed’................


25 posted on 02/23/2015 7:56:55 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: MrB

Afaid to laugh too!


26 posted on 02/23/2015 7:57:26 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Liz

Uh-oh, time for ‘ol Sahrpton to fire up the rent a mobs and standby rabble-rousers for a little late night picketing over the racial injustices at MSNBC!


27 posted on 02/23/2015 7:57:27 AM PST by corlorde (Oath Keeper)
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To: who knows what evil?

Your post begs a question - shut down by whom?

I would think that if someone other than the gov’t was dumping money down a loser rathole like this, they’d stop doing it.

As long as the gov’t isn’t stealing my money to keep MSNBC afloat,
I don’t care if some libs are dumping their money on it.


28 posted on 02/23/2015 7:58:08 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TomGuy
I have heard that the next Obamacare shoe to drop is auto enrollment when terminated from your employer. The best way to reach Obamacare success is to get everyone in America laid off or fired from their job. In order to show credible coverage on your next job, you will have to have Obamacare proof of coverage.

Al Sharpton can do an embedded feature report.

29 posted on 02/23/2015 7:58:52 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: TomGuy; Liz
Wait. What? A decline in viewership is a successful run?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

--George Orwell

Read more at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_orwell_2.html#KDIYY0Ar9kE4gh8Z.99

30 posted on 02/23/2015 7:59:04 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Red Badger
I wonder if MicroSoft may be pulling their support? They are the MS part of MSNBC................

Already happened

31 posted on 02/23/2015 8:00:52 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Texas Eagle

32 posted on 02/23/2015 8:01:34 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: MinuteGal

Yep, the “activism on behalf of the oppressed” bit sticks out like a sore thumb.

Oppressed? Seriously?

I guess 50 years of hand outs, set asides, affirmative action, grants, food stamps, housing assistance, free medical care, educational stipends, transportation assistance, child care, and an almost endless list of other social programs doesn’t count for anything.

Where do I sign up for this kind of oppression? Oh, that’s right. White, male, Christian, conservative, working taxpayers need not apply...


33 posted on 02/23/2015 8:02:22 AM PST by Tigerized (Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
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To: Red Badger

Microsoft is long gone from MSNBC. They even tried to force it to drop the ‘MS’ from the title.


34 posted on 02/23/2015 8:02:25 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Liz

Moving away from left wing tv...I will believe it when I see it. These people care more about their agenda than profits...it`s very clear.

Oh so when does the gay girl and Matthews, And Ed and every single person on the network leave?

There is Nobody currently at MSNBC that is not a flaming lib.


35 posted on 02/23/2015 8:02:45 AM PST by Chauncey Uppercrust
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To: Liz

Back when they first started Mr Kitty liked to watch Soledad O’Brien and the avatar guy.

Haven’t watched it much since then.


36 posted on 02/23/2015 8:02:57 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: dfwgator
He’ll have to become an FBI stool-pigeon again.

I can understand part of that, but what does FBI and pigeon have to do with it?

37 posted on 02/23/2015 8:03:52 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: All
I guess MSNBC got rankled w/ Al's constant defense of "the oppressed."


38 posted on 02/23/2015 8:04:10 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
“Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted, and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast...

The strategy worked and made hundreds of millions BECAUSE left-wing ad agencies suckered American companies into costly advertising on MSNBC... for almost ZERO return.

Car companies with their greedy little hands out to Uncle Sam deserved to be suckered... the rest of the companies didn't.

Oh - and FOX news is being treated to sickening ads by the same liberal elite ad agencies... they need to switch... and quickly.

39 posted on 02/23/2015 8:04:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Buying an American newspaper is a donation to the Democrat Party.)
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To: Liz
spox says left-wing TV a goner

...due to saturation

(AKA...too much of a good bad thing)

Need to demand "affirmative action" over the airwaves and in academia...heh, fat chance.

(you see...progressive/communist blacklisting bad, traditional/conservative blacklisting good)

40 posted on 02/23/2015 8:05:07 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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