Though, that's not the word I would use...more like cartoon...
They can change their format all they want to, but until they learn how to authentically connect to their viewers, it will never succeed.
The financial health is largely due to long-term deals with cable and satellite operators to carry MSNBC, made when the network sold itself as a counterbalance to Fox News, said Derek Baine, Kagan analyst.
Of course, eventually you need an audience to present yourself as a counterbalance to anything. There are, to be sure, other minor problems:
To many fans, MSNBC's weakness isn't that it's liberal. It's that the network is boring.
Well, predictable, at least, which is almost the same thing if what you're after is novelty and sensation rather than news. This might be one reason why:
Many liberals feel MSNBC reflexively defends President Barack Obama when it could be challenging him, said Jeff Cohen, a former MSNBC producer and now an Ithaca College professor.
No fooling. The old critical putdown applies to the 0bama administration: it is both good and original; the problem is that what is good isn't original and what is original isn't good. That certainly applies to Middle East policy, for example, where the "everything Bush did was wrong" crowd ended up taking his drones and quadrupling down, applying their own loftily-presented pullout from Iraq and losing the country. Presenting this to an audience skeptical of both is a mighty tough sell: it turns out that there are hypocrisies too enormous for even a liberal to swallow.
And yes, "Our President right or wrong" is tedious and unworthy of free men and women, especially when that President is an arrogant, racist scold too absorbed in his golf game and his family vacations to keep the world from burning around him. Here "news through a liberal lens" has a gigantic blind spot - you can look at it, but you can't see anything through it. And true to the mindless lock-step of liberal doctrine, the solution is "more of the same!"
I have seriously tried to watch that useless network dozens of times...zilch...there is a real late night feature that concerns max-security prisons and how they function....that is interesting. Their political shows, Maddow etal are unwatchable!
Msnbc along with nbc is little more than a propaganda tool of the dems.
I will not put it on my tv.
Not now not ever.
It’t been “fixed” for years in this household.
That button hasn’t been pushed since the OJ trial ended.
Easy - they need to bring in the old 'Air American' crew - the nuts from 'Current'... then let Al Gore and Micheal Moore run the place... go waaaaaaay liberal. I'm sure that will work.../s
Hire this guy to replace that capitalist running dog,Tingles,and ratings will skyrocket.
MSNBC can have many viewers, or it can have NONE.
The powers that be will make sure it is funded, 99% chance with OUR tax dollars.
It is the main propaganda feed for the administration. Not one dictator has ever cared about the 'ratings' for a propaganda feed.
Not one.
Andy Lack has no challenge at all.
Going the way of air america
All Sharpton, all the time. That’s the ticket.