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Staff at MSNBC are panicking over network’s direction under Rashida Jones
NY Post ^ | 26 September 2021 | Alexandra Steigrad

Posted on 09/27/2021 1:14:33 AM PDT by blueplum

MSNBC staffers are panicking over the direction of the left-leaning news network under newly-minted President Rashida Jones, fearing that she’s gearing up for a costly and potentially disastrous battle with CNN, The Post has learned.

Staffers say recent meetings with Jones and her boss, NBCUniversal news chief Cesar Conde, have focused on hard news — with the execs boasting of ratings wins over CNN on breaking stories...

...Most alarming to some, Jones appears to be re-examining the mission of MSNBC, signaling she wants to battle CNN on breaking news rather than focus on its “personality-driven, opinion programming with big stars,” a source said....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: media; msnbc; nbcshakeup; primetime
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if we could only be so lucky
1 posted on 09/27/2021 1:14:33 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

So, it’s a fight about who can go the farthest left, and who can lie outright the most.


2 posted on 09/27/2021 1:16:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: blueplum
NBCUniversal news chief Cesar Conde, have focused on hard fake news
3 posted on 09/27/2021 1:17:32 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Any newsreader can read the “hard” news a lot cheaper than highly paid media personalities can comment on it. It sounds more like a cost cutting measure. No wonder the people who call themselves media personalities are worried. If they lose this job flipping burgers would be the next best one they are qualified for.


4 posted on 09/27/2021 1:28:12 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: blueplum

They all get their talking points from the same place - they won’t venture too far from their assigned moorings.


5 posted on 09/27/2021 1:30:35 AM PDT by meyer (Everything woke turns to poo.)
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Amazing the owning telecom conglomerates are never mentioned.

MSNBC is Comcast
CNN is ATT


6 posted on 09/27/2021 1:40:38 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum
To be clear, it's this Rashida Jones.

Not this Rashida Jones, the actress, daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton.

7 posted on 09/27/2021 1:48:42 AM PDT by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: Gene Eric

“MSNBC is Comcast
CNN is ATT”

I miss not having access to Lexus Nexus. Which is about the only reason I would take a college class these days.


8 posted on 09/27/2021 2:02:11 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: blueplum
Every major news outlet enjoys former Whitehouse staffers or cabinet members on their boards with control of content. Rhodes, Clapper, Brennan, and a few dozen more.

In the 90's the outplacement stream from the executive branch went to universities as regents and chancellors of those institutions. You know, to indoctrinate skulls of mush.

Next step was to reduce 1,100 news and media outlets ownership down to 11. Then place your cabinet members, their spouses, and high level appointees into positions controlling the content of those 11 franchises.

9 posted on 09/27/2021 2:12:08 AM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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Sorry. The 1,100 independently owned news and media outlets figure was for 1992. The 11 figure is where we stand today.


10 posted on 09/27/2021 2:14:48 AM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: blueplum

A battle to see which station can be the MOST HATEFUL AND UGLY! GO FOR IT!!


11 posted on 09/27/2021 2:54:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMANr Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: blueplum

They are afraid the leftist propaganda jobs will see them axed for a new st of Leftist propagandists.


12 posted on 09/27/2021 3:15:30 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: blueplum

This actually doesn’t surprise me MSNBC has made a name for itself just out leftying CNN now they want to go for the knockout punch to their biggest competitor and be the goto network for leftys for new analysis really the only place where CNN keeps their advantage amongst the lefty community


13 posted on 09/27/2021 3:30:27 AM PDT by Lod881019
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Says strategy to focus on hard news, but has Rachel Maddow and Nicole Wallace as a featured player.


14 posted on 09/27/2021 3:34:25 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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In other media news, North Korea has decided to have more hard news to replace some of its commentary....

Some commentators were rumored to have raised objections, but they mysteriously disappeared and were unavailable for comment....


15 posted on 09/27/2021 3:38:17 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: blueplum

MSNBC reporting news? Can’t be done. Their credibility cannot be salvaged.


16 posted on 09/27/2021 3:39:22 AM PDT by Spok (Eschew the politics of envy.)
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To: blueplum

MSNBC = Marxist StaliNazi Bull$hitting Criminals.


17 posted on 09/27/2021 3:56:57 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: silent_jonny

Good looking ladies. It’s funny that “Rashida Jones” would be a duplicate name!


18 posted on 09/27/2021 4:04:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: blackdog

to further indoctrinate even more skulls of mush.


19 posted on 09/27/2021 4:16:16 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: blueplum
Who are they kidding? MSNBC and CNN are part of the same Propaganda Media.

The staff at NBC is only worried about salary reductions due to lack of competition.

20 posted on 09/27/2021 4:20:56 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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