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NBC hopes big investment in news coverage pays off (438th attempt to jumpstart MSNBC!)
USA TODAY ^ | March 25, 2003 | David Lieberman

Posted on 03/25/2003 1:49:22 AM PST by Timesink

Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cablenewsnetwork; cnbc; cnn; fox; foxnews; foxnewschannel; msdnc; msduh; msnbc; nbc; nbcnews; pmsnbc
Peter Arnett! Less fuzzy pictures of sand!


1 posted on 03/25/2003 1:49:22 AM PST by Timesink
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To: Timesink
The only thing worth watching on MSNBC is Imus and they butcher his show on a daily basis.

While I'm here, let me again protest the dreadful use of banners that all cable news networks are guilty of using.

While trying to watch a battle, the banner covers the action while the picture we get is of the sky.

Really maddening!

2 posted on 03/25/2003 1:54:30 AM PST by battlegearboat
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To: battlegearboat
While trying to watch a battle, the banner covers the action while the picture we get is of the sky. Really maddening!

Worth repeating

While trying to watch a battle, the banner covers the action while the picture we get is of the sky. Really maddening!

3 posted on 03/25/2003 2:25:33 AM PST by Balding_Eagle
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To: Timesink
Personally, I think MSNBC has the best coverage. The one guy with the 3rd Infantry that was on the vehicle used to tow tanks is the best I have seen. It had a high-resolution camera that you could actually see things with. The other Sat-phone cameras are worthless. I never can actually see anything. I think their props are as good as CNN's and much better than Fox. CNN tends to get the news fastest followed by MSNBC. Fox is usually behind. You have to put up with the occasional leftist comment, but I have not detected a noticable slant.
4 posted on 03/25/2003 4:14:25 AM PST by BillCompton
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To: BillCompton
I think MSNBC has the best coverage.

I agree. The embed on M-88 tank recovery vehicle with the 3rd ID is David Bloom and he has been one of the best embed's. Dr. Bob Arnot has also filed interesting reports from the field.

5 posted on 03/25/2003 6:01:13 AM PST by Norman Arbuthnot
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
I completely disagree. Fox has had the best coverage.
6 posted on 03/25/2003 7:24:46 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
Peter Arnett????
7 posted on 03/25/2003 7:25:57 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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Lester Holt has impressed me greatly since the war has been going on. Alex DeWitt needs to be shot. Arnett is a bore. But David Bloom has been way awesome to watch. MSNBC has been great. FOX right behind them...very closely. I think FOX is falling back a bit because their routine is stale. Shep,Dhue,Asman,Hume,Leventhal and their Pentagon and White House team..just slaughter the other networks. They just need to cover breaking news better and their choices on what are stories to stick with.

I have watched MSNBC more in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 2 years. Having Donahue gone helps...A LOT.

8 posted on 03/25/2003 7:34:13 AM PST by My Favorite Headache (Which one will lose? Depends on what I choose or maybe which voice...I ignore.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
The thing is that David Asman and I are friends and I respect him a lot.
9 posted on 03/25/2003 7:48:24 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: Timesink
This is series!

Uprising By Shiites in Basra Underway; British Pouring Artillery into City

10 posted on 03/25/2003 11:33:32 AM PST by Fractal Trader (Free Republic Energized - - The power of Intelligence on the Internet! Checked by Correkt Spel (TM))
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