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Not a Real News Network Anyway, MSNBC Announces Name and Format Change: Welcome to MPTV (Satire?)
bigjournalism.com ^
| July 30, 2010
| Jeff Dunetz
Posted on 07/30/2010 10:40:12 AM PDT by PROCON
As you probably know, the new TV season begins in the middle of September. That’s when all the TV networks spruce themselves up and reveal the new programming lineups for the next twelve months. MSNBC has planned a major overall to its lineup.
Faced with years of disaster-level ratings, MSNBC has announced it will change its name to MPTV, Microsoft Progressive Television (the Microsoft name was kept because, well you don’t want to upset Microsoft). Along with the name change is a more family friendly TV lineup.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: mediadeathwatch
I enjoy seeing these MSM "news" outlets slowly dieing!
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:40:15 AM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
Satire, but it would increase their abysmal ratings.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:42:17 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:44:56 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(When the same man...holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty: George Mason)
To: PROCON
Whatever they do, I hope they keep this guy.
Useful idiots are always entertaining.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:47:14 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
To: Responsibility2nd
Useful idiots are always entertaining. They are indeed!
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:50:36 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 26, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: Responsibility2nd
BTW, thanks for teaching me HTML..:=)!
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:52:16 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 26, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: PROCON
"MSNBC has planned a major overall to its lineup."What? They're adding a big pantload to their network? Who could it be? Algore?
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:58:28 AM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
To: PROCON
I guess POS-TV was already taken?
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:04:46 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: PROCON
They should just be honest and call it MS-DNC.
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:05:12 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
To: PROCON
BTW, thanks for teaching me HTML..:=)!
Did I do that?
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:06:04 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
To: PROCON
“the Microsoft name was kept because, well you don’t want to upset Microsoft”
You know, I never knew the “MS” in MSNBC was for Microsoft. Way to advertise, boys.
To: backwoods-engineer
Since Obammie is pres__ent
Maybe they could call it the WHN (White House Network)
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:08:49 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
To: PROCON
As long as they don’t hire any on-air black people. That would scare their snively white audience too much.
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:12:34 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
As long as they don’t hire any on-air black peopleYeah, what's up with that, maybe Shirley Sherrod ?
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posted on
07/30/2010 11:21:04 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 26, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: PROCON
I enjoy watching the train wreck that is MSNBC.
It’s better than a Lindsey Lohan emotional breakdown.
To: Le Chien Rouge
Name change is honest—they are Progressives.
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