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With Comcast/NBC merger is MSNBC About to Make a Right Turn?

Jan 22, 2011 03:33

UPDATE: The word out of MSNBC is that Keith Olbermann, who'd been negotiating his severance with one year left on his contract, can't move to another cable/broadcast news channel right away, so he may be "on ice" for some time. On the other hand, he could go back into sports talk ( Read more... )

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anolinde January 22 2011, 19:23:16 UTC

Hahahaha, wow, Fox News is pwning the ratings.

mollywobbles867 January 22 2011, 19:46:27 UTC

That's b/c it's available on every cable package I believe unlike MSNBC and maybe CNN.

filbypott January 22 2011, 19:53:48 UTC

Also because there's only one right-wing news channel and four left-wing news channels, so they have no competitors. (See also: Canadian party politics.)

magus_69 January 23 2011, 01:23:08 UTC

http://instantrimshot.com/

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mercystars January 22 2011, 19:25:52 UTC

They're supposedly bringing in some guy who's just as left as KO is/was, Cenk Uygur, so idk...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenk_Uygur

filbypott January 22 2011, 19:54:56 UTC

I'm sorry, but I think Uygur is a frat-boy schmuck who makes Olbermann look downright mild by comparison.

mercystars January 22 2011, 19:58:07 UTC

I'd never heard of him before this morning, tbh.

filbypott January 22 2011, 20:02:08 UTC

I've seen some of videos from his "Young Turks" web show, and from what I've seen he spends most of his time making juvenile cracks about Republicans.

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ladylothwen January 22 2011, 19:35:05 UTC

Seeing all that Fox News makes me weep for humanity rn.

haruhiko January 22 2011, 19:56:39 UTC

"ABOUT" to make a right turn? Lol. I've said it a million times, but this is the network that fired Phil Donahue for his anti-war views when Donahue hosted MSNBC's top-rated show. This is the network that changed their own invitation criteria at the last minute to make sure Kucinich remained excluded from their primary debates. And this all well BEFORE the Comcast merger.

I'm sure the merger will bring about a lot of shit changes, but it isn't like NBC Universal is some hapless victim in the face of Comcast's evil. This is just yet another in a long line of corporate attacks against good media, or at least what's left of it.

mindrtist January 23 2011, 07:34:04 UTC

Kind of OT: Howard Stern likes to rip on Oprah for stealing Phil Donahue's format. (The network TV show)

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othellia January 22 2011, 21:19:17 UTC

Ugh I don't need to hear what some dumbshit on Facebook thinks.

THIS. I can't wait for that trend to die in a fire. As soon as possible.