Posted on 05/01/2017 8:54:30 PM PDT by TBP
The radical transformation of cable news continues. According to a report by Yashar Ali in New York Magazine, conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt is in talks with MSNBC about the creation of a new television show Hewitt would host.
According to New York Magazines sources, the show would air on weekend evenings. Initially, Hewitt had been offered a show for weekend mornings, but Hewitt turned the offer down because he reportedly wants an evening show.
Hewitt is a longtime conservative radio host who is broadcast through the popular Salem Radio Network. He is also currently a contributor for NBC News and appears frequently on panels on MSNBC and NBC News shows, such as Meet the Press.
If Hewitt does end up with his own show on MSNBC, it would continue the traditionally liberal networks move toward more moderate programming. MSNBC shocked many when it decided to launch in January 2017 a new show featuring conservative Greta Van Susteren, who hosted a show on the Fox News Channel for 14 years.
Ali reports the move toward a more balanced television lineup is not sitting well with some at the network.
MSNBCs talks with Hewitt come at a time of increased internal tension at the network, Ali reported. Some staff are worried that NBC News chairman Andy Lack is leading the cable network in a more conservative direction. At an NBC News town hall after the election, Lack said that the organization should be focused on appealing to Americas heartland, according to people at the meeting. The remark was widely seen as a directive to, as one source put it, focus on Trump voters. Hewitts view of President Donald Trump is unquestionably more favorable than the views held by many of the other hosts at MSNBC, especially top hosts Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow.
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post titled Trumps Firs 100 Days Give Conservatives a lot to Celebrate, Hewitt called Trumps time in office an enormous sea change and mostly praised the Trump administrations performance.
Wouldn’t watch it.
On his morning show he routinely tells Trump and everyone else as well what they need to do, although nobody ever seems to pay attention. His liberal media guests are polite but mostly think he's a little off the wall. He doesn't seem to notice.
Better than Michael Medved.
Which is sort of like saying that Hitler was preferable to Stalin. or Stalin was preferable to Mao, or Mao was preferable to Pol Pot, or...
You get the idea.
It just goes to prove that the MSM doesn’t understand half of the country, which is i think, reason enough for them to pass away.
i can remember days gone by when for the most part journalists reported the NEWS instead of trying to make the news.
In my experience, that passed away when Walter Commiekite spoke about Tet in 1968.
“But hes noticeably more conservative then most of teh other people at MSNBC.”
Pol Pot is noticeably more conservative than most of the other people at MSNBC (More Socialism Now, Bring on Communism)
Yup, and MSNBC also offered Sarah Palin-hating RINO Nicole Wallace some show of her own. No thanks!
Greta isn’t conservative, but she’s not a rabid liberal nutcase either. She was watchable. Yes, good interviewer.
“But hes noticeably more conservative then most of teh other people at MSNBC.”
I have navel lint that is more conservative than ANY of the hosts at MSNBC.
Hewitt as a “top conservative” host? In whose mind? As for myself, I can’t stand to listen to him.
OMGosh, if they drug in that Q-TIP for brains Nichole Wallace for a real show, then Hugh Hewitt should know what they think of him. LOL!
Wallace is no Republican let alone a “conservative”.
The CNN and MSNBC crews are all Maxine Waters types, 24/7, and they are making a killing at it.
I know. It’s laughable to call GRETA a “conservative”. They have highjacked the term and even Paul Ryan thinks he’s a conservative.
Words are made into BS in American media.
I like Greta, she is a honest journalist, a rare breed. Ryan on the other hand is a lying snake and enemy of the American people.
exactly
Hewit is a Bushbot and Never trump loser .
Msdnc wants another Gope globalist crooked lobbyist snake bashing Trump.
Good place for a Never Trump mormon
BWAHAHAHAHA
That’s a really low bar.
Hugh and PMSNBC deserve each other.
Hewitt is a Mitch McConnell type of ‘conservative’.
Jeez, if MSNBC offered a slot to Rush, that would be a top conservative, but Hugh Hewitt is a Big Government Republican.
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