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MSNBC President 'Explains' Why His Network Went Hard Left
NewsBusters ^
| June 2, 2009
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 06/02/2009 6:26:20 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Although he sort of admitted it earlier, MSNBC President Phil Griffin seems to have problems stating the obvious: that his network has made a concious decision to feature primarily leftwing hosts (Joe Scarborough being the sole exception in the lineup). Griffin makes yet another stab, in an interview with Rory O'Connor of the Huffington post, at explaining why MSNBC went hard left and the resulting explanation is so painfully tortuous as to be comical:
"The answer is complicated...but simple at same time," Griffin responds. "The network has evolved a lot in the past few years. We went from doing a little bit of everything to doing lots of politics under Keith from 2003-05. We first began to get traction after the Iraq war started, after 'Mission Accomplished.' Then, more and more, politics led the way. When we did well with it in the 2006 elections, we made a decision to become 'the place for politics,' as the late Tim Russert dubbed us - and all of a sudden began to take off a little."
Griffin says that both Olbermann and fellow MSNBC stalwart Chris Mathews "both had a strong point of view about the war -- but our strategy then was simply to hire smart people, allow them to have a point of view, and to be authentic. At the same time, we moved even further toward politics and away from trying to be 'all things to all people.'"
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: msnbc; philgriffin
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Phil Griffin trying in a very roundabout way to state the obvious about MSNBC.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:26:20 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
and so, ratings-wise, how’s that working out for ya, phil?
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:27:23 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: PJ-Comix
It is anything but complicated. It’s about control, money and power in the wrong hands.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:27:40 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Paul Heinzman; IMissPresidentReagan; AlexW; Cletus.D.Yokel; ConservativeOrBust; tropical; ...
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:28:19 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
(E.J. Dionne: "Make the World Safe for Tax Increases")
To: PJ-Comix
Peter Griffin has more common sense than Phil Griffin.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:29:05 AM PDT
by
MAD-AS-HELL
(Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
To: PJ-Comix
They went hard left and their ratings went South.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:31:33 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: PJ-Comix
Phil Griffin would like to know if you are going to San Francisco.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:31:36 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: PJ-Comix
> primarily leftwing hosts (Joe Scarborough being the sole exception in the lineup) Has the author heard Scarborough lately??? He's slowly "evolving" toward the left -- pretty soon, he should fit right in.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:32:14 AM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: Hacklehead; freekitty; sheik yerbouty; ZULU; oswegodeee; TXRed; SouthTexas; unkus; ...
Won’t get me watching or anyone I know. They can go South straight to Hades, IMO.
To: PJ-Comix
Phil, you are as stupid as your commie anchors you all are waiting for Obama to over throw this government so you can become the only network on the air..just like in the commie countries..We the people are getting more and more upset and one day we will all blow up..we cannot let these commies do to us what the Nazis did to the Jews..
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:35:02 AM PDT
by
PLD
To: freekitty
And all this without regard for the country.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:38:40 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: Hacklehead
“They went hard left and their ratings went South.”
#####
In any other business, that would mean a substantial change in direction.
Who is propping up these Left Wing media failures?
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:40:53 AM PDT
by
EyeGuy
To: RC2
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:41:41 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: ExTexasRedhead
Exactly. Why would we want to contribute to people who want to enslave us?
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:42:12 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: PJ-Comix
When the obama presidency fails so does NBC and it’s affiliates.
To: PJ-Comix
This should be an article about how MSNBC President 'Explains' Why His Network Went Hard DOWN
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:42:36 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(http://ccwsaveslives.blogspot.com/)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:42:50 AM PDT
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: All
“Joe Scarborough being the sole exception”
Is this an onion article?
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:43:51 AM PDT
by
icwhatudo
(For every clinic bombed or burned, 17 to 18 churches are burned down. MSM? MSM?)
To: PJ-Comix
If his strategy was, in fact, to hire smart people then the mission has NOT been accomplished.
It’s gone very much awry.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:44:29 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
To: PJ-Comix
Brilliant strategery!/sarc
What an idjyot--ratings in toilet.
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posted on
06/02/2009 6:45:47 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Who ever thought we would long for the days of the Clinton administration...)
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