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alp227

(32,047 posts)
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:39 PM Feb 2016

MSNBC is nothing special - just your typical corporate media infotainment outlet.

The firing of MHP shows that MSNBC is as bad as the others with being a news outlet, in prioritizing business interests over integrity. This is why it's important to support non profit and independent news media. The low quality of commercial "news media" on TV, as well as cable TV in general, shows why this whole "free market will do better" argument is a bunch of BS. Good thing Newt Gingrich didn't get his way back in the mid 1990s, or the idiocracy we live in would be worse than it is now.

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aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
2. MSNBC is A Trump PR network
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:47 PM
Feb 2016

I mostly watch CNN now.


Their coverage last night blew MSNBC away. MSNBC actually went off the air to do prison porn before Sanders spoke! Only CNN carried the Sanders speech.


CNN has more African Americans covering and commenting on its political coverage than MSNBC. CNN is now my top choice for cable news.


CNN>MSNBC

alp227

(32,047 posts)
3. Things have really sunken THAT low, huh? CNN being better than MSNBC?
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:49 PM
Feb 2016

I now live in a house with cable TV and have been watching Al Jazeera America in its final days. I wonder what it'll be replaced with, the international feed of AJ English?

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
5. I don't know anybody that would survive in the workplace sending an email like that about the boss'
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:03 PM
Feb 2016

I am 100 percent sure I'd be fired if I sent an email saying anything negative about my boss.

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
6. That was after not showing up for work.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:11 PM
Feb 2016

I don't think she understands the dynamics of an employer/employee relationship.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
9. My experience is people who try to shame their employer publicly aren't retained
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:29 PM
Feb 2016

It usually doesn't even work when it's done privately.

Nonetheless for lefty viewers that's the loss of a really good mind.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
10. The entire M$M is nothing put corporate propaganda, now with fake news commercials!
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:32 PM
Feb 2016

Why anyone with an internet connection watches the M$M, is a mystery to me. Garbage in and garbage out all day long, no thanks.

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