Time to Pull the Plug on MSNBC?

[Denny Crane]

When MSNBC began, the head guy (whatever his name was) blustered that Fox wasn't conservative enough and that his network would fill in the gap to Fox's right. They had Chris Matthews, a fake Democrat who had criticized Bill Clinton every day of his presidency (as had Bill Mahr, by the way). They signed Donahue but quickly fired him for opposing the Iraq War, as did the majority of Americans (and the vast majority outside the fascist South).

It's like the Republican Party, which was the liberal party in Lincoln's time. You can find events early in MSNBC's history which oppose the network as we know it now. So what.

What universe are you living in?

 

[jlprk]

Don't quit your day job. Bill O'Reilly you are not.

 

[Denny Crane]

You're good at telling stories. Fiction.

 

[Denny Crane]

How about Microsoft and NBC did a joint venture. Start there.

 

[jlprk]

MSNBC intended to out-conservative Fox, got nowhere in the ratings, and then tried its present pretense of liberalism.

You should have read the news more back then.

 

[Denny Crane]

You state nonsense as if it were fact.

Sorry, my friend, but I ain't buying.

You must be confusing MSNBC with CNN. CNN hired a new president about the time Bush first got elected and they wanted to move their reporting to the right to capture more audience. I don't know that they actually did much, though, beyond interviewing conservative viewers to see what they might watch.

MSNBC was a JV between Microsoft and NBC. The idea was to use PowerPoint for all the network's graphics and the content was shared between MSN and NBC. When MSNBC chose to drop news and do nothing but left wing politics, Microsoft ended the JV. They didn't want a bunch of bullshit defacing their news site at MSN.com.

There wouldn't be an MSNBC without Microsoft dumping at least a half a $billion into it.

MSNBC is still getting nowhere in the ratings.

Maybe they should change their hosts or something.

Or maybe they might follow Fox's lead in how to make a network people will watch. It's not about being biased, it's about hiring superstars. When Paula Zahn left CNN, she was hired by Fox. She's no conservative. When Greta Van Susteren left CNN, she was hired by Fox; and she was the biggest and most vocal apologist for Clinton during his impeachment (no conservative). The guy who does their Sunday News show is Mike Wallace's son, a registered Democrat, and who worked for years at ABC on nightline (among others).

But you know best