I've seen a couple of the news shows where he's filled in as host and I didn't think he did too great of a job. At least in the most recent, he couldn't string a coherent sentence together to save his life. The guy speaks for a living, so I don't know if it was the pressure of being an anchor or what, but I'm interested to see why they chose to give him his own show in light of that.
IDK I kind of like his show. I always used to change the channel when Cenk Uygur would come on, but when Al Sharpton started anchoring instead, I started leaving it on MSNBC.
Well, Sharpton has always struck me as an interesting guy, but I don't know much about him compared to some other activists, even if he's historically gotten more media attention. Over the years I've been mostly struck by how some people take him extremely seriously and some people don't take him seriously at all, so now there seemed to likely be some diversity of opinion about whether it was terrible for him to make this move or if it could wind up being a serious boon to not only his own causes, which I certainly support, but other good ones as well.
Given the lack of comments on this post, maybe the whole thing isn't as ~controversial as I envisioned. But I apologize if that remark of mine you quoted wasn't clear- I don't think he's sold out and I also don't know if this is a great idea, I was just tossing out hypotheticals.
I apologize for that specifically, then- it's not really language that I would be comfortable using if giving my own opinion, it's language that I could have envisioned others with a more cynical opinion than mine using. But if that came across as my own language, then that was definitely bad phrasing and I fucked up. :\
So, they fire Cenk for being loud and confrontational... then they wind up hiring Al Sharpton who is even louder and even more confrontational, but mostly really fucking louder?
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a hybrid TV personality, a journalist-participant of sorts, both a maker and a deliverer of the news
then they're going to have to re-evaluate
NBC’s professional standards [which] bar on-air talent from making donations without managerial consent and from endorsing candidates.
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Given the lack of comments on this post, maybe the whole thing isn't as ~controversial as I envisioned. But I apologize if that remark of mine you quoted wasn't clear- I don't think he's sold out and I also don't know if this is a great idea, I was just tossing out hypotheticals.
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