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MSNBC Bombs in Blogosphere
Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 09/09/2008 8:20:31 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: NewMediaFan; All

how many msnbc shows have the same ratings as a test pattern? LITERALLY


21 posted on 09/09/2008 8:42:22 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: hgro

LOL!!


22 posted on 09/09/2008 8:42:29 AM PDT by CarolTX (Onward through the fog)
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To: presidio9; All
"Anybody who thinks that David Gregory is going to be a jpurnalistic improvement on Olberman is deluding himself."

MSNBO Gregory Signs

23 posted on 09/09/2008 8:43:16 AM PDT by musicman (Sarah Palin Runs A STATE - Barack Obama Runs His MOUTH)
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To: presidio9

Caption David Gregory:

“Come here, little viewer, and I’ll give you a piece of candy...”


24 posted on 09/09/2008 8:45:00 AM PDT by CarolTX (Onward through the fog)
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected
Josh Marshall is an Obama puppet, has been since we first heard of the Messiah. Good riddance to KO and Matthews. Hope that tingle down his leg is not a serious medical problem. Maher was right about the two of them having orgasms as they spoke of Obie.
25 posted on 09/09/2008 8:45:53 AM PDT by Sadie5
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To: NewMediaFan

Ultimately GE has to be held accountable for Olbermann. They cannot brush off letting the MSNBC sub run around unhinged. They pay Olbermann $4 million a year to piss off half the country, and were well aware of what a divisive force he was at ESPN.

Instead of yanking him off convention coverage, they are “freeing him up”? To do just what?

As posted in another thread:

The only thing that will get any attention is boycotting GE (MSNBC’s corporate parent)

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You can also boycott parts of GE, the home appliance division contributes about 8% of GE’s bottom line.

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Immelt has been a disaster for GE, maybe writing some of the Board will do some good.

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26 posted on 09/09/2008 8:57:00 AM PDT by xDGx
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To: xDGx
They pay Olbermann $4 million a year to piss off half the country, and were well aware of what a divisive force he was at ESPN.

I laugh at Olberman, but my personal theory has always been that he's pissing off way more than half of us. He gives nutjob theories that sober Democrats laugh at, like "Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11" or "Bush invaded Iraq for personal gain" just enough plausibility that people start going on the internet and looking for whatever answer they want to find. Anyway, most of the people watching these two idiots were doing so because they liked being pissed off.

27 posted on 09/09/2008 9:19:45 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Always Right

“We came to the conclusion it was better not to restrain them” by making them wear “two hats,”

Doberman should be restrained by a straight jacket.


28 posted on 09/09/2008 9:31:08 AM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: musicman

Is that a REAL snapshot?!? Not a photoshop?!?
MSNBC had background hecklers?!? Oh, that is too funny!


29 posted on 09/09/2008 9:37:39 AM PDT by WOSG (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: presidio9
Salon's Glenn Greenwald called it "extraordinary for a media company to publicly embarrass, diminish and tarnish its own principal asset.

LOL! I'd say they did that quite well on their own.

30 posted on 09/09/2008 9:42:25 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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To: presidio9
"It is plainly doing so for ideological, not ratings-based, reasons: namely, it fears doing anything to anger the White House, the McCain campaign and the right in this country."

Hmmmm...seems what they really fear is that McCain and Palin ARE going to be the new occupants of the White House and that scares the bejeeze out of them.

31 posted on 09/09/2008 9:55:18 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (Thankfully... there are some Conservatives that are not consumed by hate. Some=99.87%)
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To: musicman

That too funnny LOLOLOL!


32 posted on 09/09/2008 10:04:52 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: presidio9
did not exactly send a thrill up the leg of liberal bloggers.

Does it matter to the Washington Post what the conservative bloggers think? /rhetorical

33 posted on 09/09/2008 10:13:01 AM PDT by lowbridge (Biden is an expert on almost every subject that has ever come before the Congress. -Linda Douglass)
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To: presidio9
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo called the move "pathetic," writing: "It seems pretty obvious that the network got cowed by complaints from the McCain campaign."

Jesus Josh, Get a shovel!

34 posted on 09/09/2008 10:25:32 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affimative Action Candidate)
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To: presidio9

Liberals seem to think that everyone agrees with them. And if by chance someone doesn’t, they don’t count.


35 posted on 09/09/2008 11:10:52 AM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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