Dear MSNBC,

[Mr.Bill]

When Trump spews his idiotic, racist, divisive bullshit at one of his Nazi rallies, you are not helping things by rebroadcasting parts of it over and over again hundreds of times on every show on your schedule until he does it again.

Please knock it off. We've seen it and heard it. Okay?

[ChazII]

1. Thank you, Mr. Bill. n/t

[BComplex]

44. Sorry, but I watch MSNBC every night; start w/ Ari Melber, then Joy, if not Joy, I skip to Chris

Hayes, he hands off to Rachel, she hands off to Lawrence, he hands off to Brian. So from 6 to 12, I'm watching MSNBC. I also record Cuomo and Don Lemon on CNN, but don't always watch.

I'm a news junkie. MSNBC keeps me fairly functional.

[ChazII]

45. We share the same viewing

schedule.

[BComplex]

46. ...

[kimbutgar]

67. I stopped watching msnbc for about 2 years after MF45 was installed by Putin

But I love Joy and now watch Ari. I turned off it when Chris Matthews was on but now will be watching Joy if she gets that time slot.

[NotHardly]

48. You know you can actually email MSNBC & send it to a human rather than just to this list of folks

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No need to preach to the choir. Send this message to MSNBC.

[Mr.Bill]

22. Maybe after this thread runs and fills up for awhile,

I'll mail them a link to it. It would be even better if several of us did that.

[maxsolomon]

3. He provides content that they can't resist.

Either you come for the Outrage or you come for the Schadenfreude.

[Mr.Bill]

4. It also helped him

get elected in 2016.

[lagomorph777]

49. I tune to another channel the second they put Turd's face on the screen.

I am sure I'm not the only one.

[spooky3]

63. No, you're not. I do the same. Nt

[Raine]

5. That's all they ever have on anymore 👎

they never have on any real news. They've lost me as a viewer, I never bother with them anymore.

[groundloop]

27. YES..... Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way.

While I usually agree with what they say I've gotten tired of their "All Politics All The Time" format. I'd truly like to see 'normal' news from them as well, and I'm certain we're not the only ones who feel that way.

[malaise]

6. +1,000

They are helping him to spew hatred

[zentrum]

7. $$$$$

[LEW]

8. I watch MSNBC daily

and am turning it off more and more. Please.....stop starting every hour with a story on thump. Please, please! I want to know what the Biden campaign is doing and other news. I think the last 4 plus years of thump has been enough. If you can't find other things to report I will continue to turn your channel off.

[CentralMass]

9. I just don't watch.

[hotdamn00]

10. MSNBC weekends are pretty bad.

Alicia Witt is pretty useless. Other anchors have GOP spinners on as guests, even Sharpton has Hugh Hewitt on all the time.
Weekdays are better, by far.

[NotHardly]

23. I cannot stand 95% of MSNBC... it's like their program manager have no pride... news fine, rest crap

Maybe they should try to figure out "what and who they are" because their non-news programming says,

"Hi, I'm a white upper-middle class self-serving arse who enjoys watching Murder, more murder crimes, criminal behind bars (oh, did I mention all the non-white criminals they have on since apparently white folks don't do no time?), or our brave brave police officers rousting yet another person of color.

All that colorful commentary: 1) lots of things said without there being a goddamn point, purpose, useful information, or even a nice Aesop's learning module; 2) bad camera work; 3) disjointed and lacking in point.

Too bad they don't actually have anyone working for them who can give it some sense of form, mission, goal set, or rationale.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. At least they're programming real shows now and not running prison shows all weekend.

[Dream Girl]

29. There is that.

[calimary]

36. Welcome to DU, hotdamn00!

I cannot stand Hugh Hewitt. They don't come much more smug and sanctimonious than he is.

I like Joy Reid a lot and think she deserves a better showcase.

I'd get rid of Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd. Maybe give Joy Reid Andrea's slot. Katy Tur would get Todd's weekday "Meet the Press" show.

And I'd get rid of all those cheap-ass weekend prison/crime shows, and hire John Fugelsang to put together a few two-hour blocks of commentary, comedy, satire, and music for Saturday and Sunday evenings.

[USALiberal]

11. Silly, it is news and they are ripping into him. nt

[Mr.Bill]

15. Fine, report the news and rip into him.

I just don't need to see the same sound bites of his garbage all day long.

[USALiberal]

17. Most people do not watch all day so once see it once. Quit watching. nt

[Mr.Bill]

19. I watch far less than I used to.

But I'm retired and watch TV a lot. I used to be able to watch MSNBC all day and see many different stories on different shows. Their diversity of content and creativity is gone.

[thenelm1]

34. Totally agree

The constant repetition of some of these video clips - at times from both sides - is nauseating and usually results in me changing the channel. And I'm not someone continually watching, but seeing the same krap constantly played over and over again during their late afternoon - nightly shows just serves to drive me away. In one sense, I understand what they may be attempting to do, but constantly interjecting some gawd-awful vid and disrupting what might be an interesting, ongoing discussion just seems very counterproductive. I'm sure this kind of krap is being pushed by some producer or other behind the scenes twit, but the result just serves to disrupt the continuity of any given interesting discussion. The "brain trust" behind the cameras just need to let things flow without inserting themselves all the damned time.

[yaesu]

12. but, to be fair, that's their job

to give tRump all the airtime he wants because they are owned my comcast who likes tRumps tax cuts and destroying net neutrality. Don't be fooled, none of these MSM networks want to do the right thing, they want to improve their bottom line.

[BComplex]

42. You're right about that, of course. 6 companies own 92% of the media in this country, and none

of them are owned by a true liberal democrat.

[ChubbyStar]

66. You need to find better news, MSNBC is garbage

Plenty of good coverage of things by Indy media on the internet. Get rid of cable it stinks.

[Mr.Bill]

13. I find more and more

that the only show that usually covers a different story than the others is Rachel Maddow, and sometimes Lawrence O'Donnell.

[bdamomma]

16. my two

go to reporters.

[bdamomma]

14. Why keep on showing

propaganda, Fox does that.

Gaslighting Americans big time. This is a Putin tactic.

[lame54]

18. They do the same when...

They interview some random guy who thinks wearing masks infringes on his freedom

They play it over and over

[live love laugh]

20. Did anybody expect more from Republican-owned MSNBC? Why? nt

[Rebl2]

21. I definitely

agree. MTP daily showed several clips unnecessarily. So did Craig Melvin earlier in the day. So MSNBC, JUST STOP IT.

[ananda]

25. I rarely watch cable news.

They are Trump enablers and normalizers.

[MasonDreams]

26. I had to stop watching a hundred yrs ago back in 2018.

[jaxexpat]

28. msnbc, sometimes they are simply not very professional.

You know who is professional? Fox. They go about their business very professionally. Almost as if they are being guided by powerful and competent agencies bent on a single purpose with methods honed by a multitude of experiences over a long duration.

[BComplex]

43. Fox propaganda is what has all but destroyed this country. I don't care if they're "professional" at

propaganda. They're evil. Pure and simple.

[jaxexpat]

47. And should Fox fall, another soldier from talk radio or cyber space will ...

gladly pick up the mantle and continue the struggle. There's no one bullet fix. These creatures are feeding from the seed stock.
Hell, half of MSNBC air time is filled by gossip and bluster disguised in infotainment. And still most people think they're the "left's" answer to Fox. The only networks that approach the facts in an attempt for honesty are NPR and PBS.

Yet even they give equal time to the right lest they be declared pariah and get disappeared. For example, does it makes sense to get the report of a tea party hack when talking about BLM? OBVIOUSLY NOT! But the public broadcasting system rests 'neath the sword of Damacles since Ken Tomlinson's tenure as chairman of the CPB. "Nice network ya got here, be ashamed if something were to happen to it. So, get Moyers out and maybe we can go easy on ya."

[marieo1]

50. Real News

I agree completely.......I watch MSN BC at night because if I really want to get the lowdown on what is happening in the world and what has happened during that particular day, Rachel and Lawrence are the only ones that do the research and tell it like it really is. They do not sugar-coat anything, just the facts, just the facts and I really appreciate that. I watched Fox news a long time ago and immediately knew they all were right-wingers and would distort the news and facts to benefit the reps and I've never watched them again.

[AdamGG]

30. If Trump says something useful, then it's man bites dog

Otherwise, more divisive insanity from the divisive insane person does not merit coverage.

[tirebiter]

31. I watch MSNBC and I see voices of resistance against Trump

Any pieces of Trump are for criticism. I think I saw Hugh Hewitt like once. CNN still goes for bothsidesdoit all too often. NPR still has to say congress failed without itemizing Mitch McConnell as the cause Of failure.

[Mr.Bill]

32. I see those things, too.

I'm just tired of seeing Trump say the same stupid shit over and over again for days on end.

You know, Nancy Pelosi does press conferences, too. Let's see more of her and other Democratic elected officials.

[yellowdogintexas]

55. get on her facebook page and request notifications.

I get a pop up every time she or Schumer go live. Also Joe Biden, Cuomo, Beshear, Occupy Democrats, and others. I used to get them from Beto when he was running

You can share these to your entire facebook list.

[Mr.Bill]

56. I don't use Facebook.

And my point is, the news networks should be showing them.

[wnylib]

35. NPR does a lot of bothsiderism, too.

[flibbitygiblets]

33. That's why I only watch Rachel. She NEVER repeats Dump's idiocy.

Well, a couple of times she did, but she explained her exceptions. But as a general rule, she's got the right idea, and that's why she's the only one on MSNBC I ever watch.

[Capperdan]

37. But she beats a dead horse

It takes her way too long for her message. And then repeats the same message like you didn't understand it the first two times

[Raine]

38. Exactly, I haven't got the patience while she rides the rhetorical range

going on and on and on before getting to point.

[A HERETIC I AM]

54. Her habit of saying the same thing 3 or 4 times is annoying as hell!

I like her, she's smart and does a good job, but that one quirk of hers absolutely drives me up the wall!

WE GET IT, RACHEL! FOR FUCKS SAKE! Your audience is not made up of idiots! You don't have to say the same thing 3 different ways! We got it the first time!

Plus, she will come back to make a particular point once again, two or 3 sentences later! As if we weren't quite clear when she said it 3 ways a moment before!

[Mike Niendorff]

39. Also:

Every dollar you take to run advertising for the Trump campaign is blood on your hands.


MDN

[Tarheel_Dem]

40. I'm pretty much down to only Rachel at this point. Every show seems to have the exact same....

format. Endless coverage of his speeches, his tweets, and insane rallies. They did this in 2016, and I'm beginning to think they have exactly the same plans for 2020. Trump was a media creation to begin with, and nothing's changed since he came down that damn escalator in 2015.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

41. Isn't broadcasting campaign rally content the same as a campaign contribution?

As if he doesn't already control enough media content with the bully pulpit, his own damn cable news channel and social media trolls and ads by the thousands.


KY..........

[Larissa]

51. Trump Brainwashing 24/7

When one of the ka-zillion clips comes up of Trump, I routinely mute the sound. The news media is largely responsible for Trump's election with the round-the-clock Trump-o-Rama sound bites. Trump was legitimized by the obsessive focus. I get it that the Trump Show bumped up their ratings. Since his election I have, from time to time, placed myself on news quarantine against the news media orgasmic obsession with the worst president in American history.

[jayschool2013]

52. Read your news

Cut the cord and spend the money on journalism, not entertainment.

[Mr.Bill]

57. As a former journalist,

I've always read the newspapers. Still do. It's not about keeping me informed, all of us here are far more informed than most people. It's about giving some Democratic elected officials more air time and less for Trump. They deserve the same platform that he does, otherwise the reporting is lacking.

When I can hear Trump spew the same racist shit 50 times in one day without the person third in line to the presidency even being mentioned on that channel, something is wrong.

[jayschool2013]

58. Thank you

I apologize for coming across as a scold.

Sounds like you're a great news consumer, and a perfect person to call out a cable entertainment/news network.

Be well.

[Mr.Bill]

59. No apology necessary.

This is a good discussion, and I only hope others are learning as much as I am from it.

[Soxfan58]

53. Yes!!!!!

I'm getting carpal tunnel from pushing the mute button. Jesus, I don't watch Faux but they can't show him anymore than MSNBC does.

[hunter]

60. There's no cable news on my television.

Television is the worst possible medium for news and opinion.

The most primitive parts of the human brain are unable to distinguish between television and reality.

Fortunately these parts of the human brain can't read.

[Mr.Bill]

62. I pretty much spend hours every day

sitting here reading a variety of things on my laptop with the TV on in the background.

[hunter]

65. I quit Comcast when I realized they should be paying me for their shit.

I told them as much. They'd disconnected us because I hadn't paid the bill, but they kept calling. I told them just as soon as the sent me that special deal $49 a month check I'd allow them to reconnect. They never did.

Mind you at the time my wife was in the hospital and we had huge medical bills we couldn't pay. But neither one of us had ever watched much television anyways.

My wife beat the odds but we never did go back to cable television.

Our television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's pretty much all it does. One of our kids set us up Netflix. We pay $8.99 a month for that and we haven't yet run out of stuff to watch.

[Mike 03]

61. Hallelujah, Yes!

And ditto for CNN.

[Champp]

64. Excellent point, Mr. B

[BComplex]

68. Joy Reid needs to quit reading her show off the prompter. It's too obvious she's

reading every word. When she takes the hand-off from Ari Melber, or when she hands off to Chris Hayes, she's real spontaneous. But in between, it's like she's reading her show to us.

She seemed more spontaneous before they gave her tweety's old spot.

I still like her a lot, but she's got to get her tv game on.