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And yet no attempt to answer my question. Why are there no popular liberal commentators on the level of Rush or Hannity? It's because conservatives unlike liberals need talking points fed to them because their arguments are incoherent and illogical.
Because no one is stupid enough to listen to the bull crap liberals try to push..
At some point everyone goes "Are they serious"? and then turn them off..
So B.S.NBC finally got sick of being in the ratings toilet and the industry butt-of-jokes? especially now that their respected news anchor Brian Williams has gone the way of Dan Rather and is now thoroughly disgraced.
Late last week, MSNBC made an unsurprising announcement: It would be canceling the low-rated afternoon shows of Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid. Less expected? The move, an MSNBC source told The Daily Beast, is part of the network’s broader push "to move away from left-wing TV."
Which: big if true! So what does it actually mean for MSNBC to make a break with "left-wing TV"? What does it say that a network so self-consciously styled along partisan lines has come out (or, at least, had an anonymous source come out) against partisanship?
The gist of the article goes on to say that cable companies who bundle useless, unpopular channels such as MSNBC with the good stuff that people are really paying to watch, see the writing on the wall and that writing says: the future of cable-bundling is in doubt (THIS IS GOOD NEWS!):
The bundle that has bolstered MSNBC and its fellow networks may be disintegrating. Last fall, HBO announced that it would be launching a "stand-alone, over-the-top HBO service in the United States" in 2015. The move has been generally interpreted as a harbinger of “the great unbundling,” and also possibly, eventually of the death of cable.
You could read the de-left-wing-ing of MSNBC as a preemptive response to that eventuality. If the great unbundling is indeed upon us, it will mean that the networks, in fairly short order, will no longer be able to coast on Guy Fieri Money. MSNBC will have to grow more responsive to the slings and arrows of viewer attentions. It will have to be more vigilant about its brand; it will have to be more daring. It will also have to be more cautious. And re-organizing itself under non-partisan (or at least "non-partisan") principles may be a way for the network both to broaden its appeal and to protect itself for the long term against political contingencies—to keep itself, basically, from getting Daily Showed.
It's not really surprising that the left doesn't have the same taste for blatant partisanship that the right does. Critical thinking and absurd amounts of bias don't go hand in hand.
Of course, Fox News will continue to make idiots feel good about themselves and cater to the low-IQ right wing audience.
It's not really surprising that the left doesn't have the same taste for blatant partisanship that the right does. Critical thinking and absurd amounts of bias don't go hand in hand.
Of course, Fox News will continue to make idiots feel good about themselves and cater to the low-IQ right wing audience.
LOL Get back to us when MSNBC gets rid of Al Sharpton.
Of course the real folly here is in believing that anyone capiable of true critical thinking actually watches any cable news.
Their parent company, NBC, has been using them as a tax write off.
Then they will run a "story" about those evil big corporations.
Actually, they're not. MSNBC is hugely profitable for Comcast/NBC-Universal, generating nearly $500 million in revenues per year, most of which is profit (as cable news is incredibly cheap to produce).
MSNBC is following a trend that is will change cable. Fewer people than ever are watching. Cable profits have just been anounced and they are down again. People have found other ways to waste time. Besides, these shows have become so loaded with commercials, that it seems in some cases that it is 1/2 commercials. At that point, I'm sure many say, why bother. Not only that but they use their cell phones a lot more than their cable and both cost about the same per month, depending on the service. So if someone wants to cut expenses, its pretty clear what will be cut.
On top of that, few of the channels are worth having any more. Even the Weather Channel more often than not, doesn't have weather on it. After a while you start to ask, why am I paying for this?
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