So I turned on CNN and MSNBC, at 6:00 AM EST, and the were headlining with the Baldwin "rust"

[JohnSJ]

shooting. Turned it off and rechecked an hour later. They were still talking about the shooting

Are they going to talk about the allegations of elected congress people being directly involved in the January 6th overthrow of our government?

While the shooting is tragic and should be mentioned, in the balance of issues that will have an impact on the American people, it doesn’t rate that high

Maybe they will bring back the issues with Britney Spears while they are at it

Is that really headline news?

While I am sure they will discuss members of Congress involvement in the insurrection, I would think that should have been the headline story

[hlthe2b]

1. Joe S can't even bother to pronounce "ALEC" correctly--he keeps saying "Alex" though I know

he knows him personally from Alec's time working at MSNBC. And there is nothing that Mika loves better than to propel her own unearned self-sanctimony at others--especially those Joe finds offensive.

Uggh. Just turn it off as I did.

[JohnSJ]

2. I see now they are talking about the insurrection, infrastructure bill, etc. but that should

have been the top of the hour headline I would have thought

[targetpractice]

6. Joe's producer is named "Alex"...

... I thought he was mispronouncing Alec's name this AM, too... But, then realized he was briefly talking about his producer, Alex, trying to get statements from the Rust production company.

You may be correct, though... But, I only noticed it for a bit this AM.

[hlthe2b]

29. NO! He did it repeatedly and it was clearly referrencing Alec Baldwin.

[targetpractice]

31. Thanks! Stand corrected. n/t

[hlthe2b]

32. I didn't mean to be strident, but this is classic Scab. He also "innocently" referenced

"someone from MANHATTAN" in his question to a gun expert this morning about how one should assume they know nothing about guns and thus teach them very differently. Hmmm, Manhattan?

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. CNN finally managed to segue into the spending bill.

Manchin is now on board with a $1.75T bill after talking with the President. There was no visible bruising. (I made that last part up.)

[JohnSJ]

4. Good. I see that, thanks. The President must have bought him breakfast yesterday

Maybe if he buys him lunch today, and dinner tomorrow, he can make it even higher

[gab13by13]

8. It isn't just Manchin.

I read today that Senator Menendez received 1 million dollars from Big Pharma and is against lower drug prices in the bill.

Justice Alito was so wrong when he mouthed "Not True" at president Obama's SOTU.

[OldBaldy1701E]

12. Justice Alito probably has many reasons for mouthing that

All of them self serving and none of them worth an actual frak.

[Calista241]

35. The problem with Manchin is that he's basically said the bill will cause inflation.

Therefore, if we actually do have inflation, we're going to take the fall for it. The GOP and the media will be able to pull out clips of Manchin equating the spending with inflation, and then we're dead meat.

We better hope inflation goes away.

[obamanut2012]

5. Britney Spears 100% deserved all that media attention

It brought much needed scrutiny to a deplorable legal weapon used against people, especially women.

[oldsoftie]

9. THIS should be obvious to everyone.

The Britney story was years overdue.

[demmiblue]

13. +1

[uponit7771]

15. Spears got more coverage than GQP voter denial and nullification, only 64% of democrats ...

... think voter suppression is a problem.

We don't have a democracy if even the left in America think the country should error on the side of making it REALLY easy for all eligible to vote.

[gab13by13]

7. Right wing billionaires own the MSM,

they control the narrative. If every cable news station were talking about the coup plotters that might put pressure on Garland to act and we can't have that.

I'm still waiting to find out who authorized the Capitol tours and who disabled the panic buttons on the desks. Gone into the dust bin of history.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. "If it bleeds, it leads the news". . . . nt

[yaesu]

11. there in no mainstream news media in the US, only entertainment, news isn't profitable,

entertainment is, gunporn will be the topic until the next sensation. I go to overseas sources for my news, BBC, DW and yes, even Radio Havana Cuba has better news.

[gab13by13]

16. It's more than that.

Of course they want to make money, but they also make money by controlling the narrative.

[argyl]

20. Back in the days of Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Reasoner,

and many others the only source of televised news was CBS, NBC, and ABC.
And the news wasn't expected to turn a buck. It usually lost money but it was considered a public service. And it was high quality, no nonsense reporting of the important issues of the day.

I doubt we'll ever see that kind of non partisan, straightforward news casting again. It's all about profit, and worse yet, propaganda.

[SergeStorms]

22. Yeah, republicans killed that era.....

when the Ronnie Rayguns administration deep sixed the "Fairness Doctrine". That paved the way for Rush Limbaugh and the takeover of AM radio.

I mean....what's all this nonsense about "fairness" anyway? Fairness is a Democratic concept.

[Oppaloopa]

14. Yes this is all they are talking about. They are all going to stay on this like OJ and Peterson

Now they just changed to talking to woodward regarding the insurrection

[uponit7771]

18. +1, its getting way more coverage than it deserves while we have people in the government that

... supported overturning and election.

[ashredux]

17. Yes, it is tragic... it...ITS NOT THAT NEWSWORTHY...It is a second tier story

We have just a Tabloid Mentality…lowest common denominator wins the headline….sad

[brooklynite]

23. That would explain why there was only one post about it here...

...wasn't there?

[demosurvivor]

19. I'm with you

2.5 hours later and they're still talking about RUST. Granted, it needs some attention, BUT, our democracy is being put on the line each and every day. And I don't see any progress in us making an attempt to keep it. WTF

In my book, that should take precedence.

Making sure Trump can never be elected again should be number 2, which brings it back around to Jan 6.

WTF 2x

[KS Toronado]

21. One thing that really irks me about MSM

when reporting on what's holding up new legislation that would benefit the public, they always point fingers
at Manchin & Sinema as the guilty ones, never the reQublicOns. I think the repugs are the most guilty.

[brooklynite]

24. For those who didn't bother to check before joining the pile-on...

...the bulk of the hour on MSNBC was about planning for the Jan 6 riot and conflicts over COVID vaccinations.

Perhaps offering up a story people are INTERESTED in kept them around for the other important stories.

[ariadne0614]

26. +1 n/t

[USALiberal]

33. +1000!!

[Johnny2X2X]

25. Good

Let the spending bill fly under the radar until the deal is done. We don't need the media riling up Sinema and Manchin for any last second changing of their minds.

[Desert_Leslie]

27. Confirmation Necessary

That sizzling Rolling Stone story must be confirmed by a second source before it goes on the air. I'm sure all the political journos in D.C. are scrambling to confirm the story. Until it's confirmed, it's the "scoop" of Rolling Stone.

I did notice that Raw Story carried an article detailing the RS story. (They are more on the journalistic fringe and don't adhere to the normal journalistic standards that the big media outlets follow.)

[jaxexpat]

28. Don't you worry. By election day 2022 there will be plenty of missing Karens.

Wouldn't want the water cooler chat to trend toward real issues, now, would we?

[wryter2000]

30. Be fair

Not much to say about Gabby anymore

[Ford_Prefect]

34. MSM is Mostly about the Money, The Hype, and the Attitude.

Content and Context are long gone from News. They enjoyed TLG as a target and a subject because they could pump out something every 15 minutes and it was juicy click bait every time. They no longer know how to construct an in-depth program nor wish to. The excuse I hear most often is that it costs more to do that and the public hasn't got the attention span to watch it. The same excuse they have pedaled since Reagan only now they blame it on people who prefer to read headlines on their phones rather than the content below the headline.

Imagine...

[Rebl2]

36. Why aren't

any of the cable and MSM talking about the article about the planning meeting for the attempted coup being reported by Rolling Stone and the fact that several republican house members were involved. You know where I did see it. The local news channel I watch!!!

[Paladin]

37. Let's see how long those channels cover the next mass school shooting.

What's that you say? Mass school shootings happen so often in this country that---unlike shootings on movie sets involving celebrities---they're not newsworthy anymore?

Well, fancy that...

[The Unmitigated Gall]

38. MSM

Failing the American electorate for forty years plus. I won’t give them a dime.

[AngryOldDem]

39. Now that the Petito case is "solved," on to the next thing.

Morning Joe was actually talking about this in depth?

[George II]

40. CNN has become the National Enquirer of cable "news". It started with that Petito case...

They spent more time on that in the last month than the Presidential Election.

I don't get it. A terribly tragic case, but it was a murder (and eventual suicide) of a young woman no one had ever heard about before.

No exaggeration, they've spent 5-10 minutes every hour for weeks now. There are about 60 homicides PER DAY in the US, yet they've spent weeks talking about just this one.

PS - I just put CNN for the first time this morning, after the commercial they're going to report on "latest updates" of the Alec Baldwin accidental shooting.

No doubt it's have the banner "BREAKING NEWS!"

[Dial H For Hero]

41. An A-list actor shot 2 people and killed one of them. This story isn't going away.

How much coverage would there been of O. J. Simpson if he'd been an obscure athlete no one had heard of?