Note to MSNBC

[madamesilverspurs]

Just a small gritch. Realize that you are prepping for your new name but can't help hoping that change does NOT include bringing back Luke Russert and Chris Matthews. Please.


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[Irish_Dem]

1. I cannot believe Chris Matthews is back.

[Thirdtimearound]

6. Wish it was Keith Olbermann

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yes he is one of the best of all times.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. Welcome to DU

[pwb]

2. It is all Medical insurance and Prescription drug T V ads interrupted

by a few minutes of the same thing every hour. I can't watch any Cable news anymore.

[dgauss]

11. The amount of time dedicated to commercials is out of control.

I was curious and added it up and it's about 20 minutes of commercials per hour. So, for every 2 minutes of programming there is 1 minute of mind numbing commercials. It's not just MSNBC either. The only way I can watch TV is to record the show, watch it later and fast-forward through the commercial breaks. It's a little inconvenient but a LOT less irritating and also saves a lot of time.

And yes the best option is just to stop or at least drastically cut back on the amount of time watching commercial tv.

[RubyRose]

22. Recording and watching later is the only way to go

these days. Your numbers are correct.

[allegorical oracle]

25. For sure. Have wondered if NBC's ad sales department thinks its audience is

only old and/or ill. Maybe the new scheme will change things.

[Ursus Rex]

27. They have very expensive research that tells them *exactly* who their best audience is ...

... not the biggest part necessarily, but the part that will respond the best to the ads.

[SheilaAnn]

3. Is that new guy Luke Russert? Looks like he's trying to look so grown up with a very serious face. Jerk. n/t

[Intractable]

10. I can't put my finger on it. Why do I not like this guy?

Something in his voice is cringy to me. It's in his appearance, too.

[allegorical oracle]

26. He leans toward histrionics. Am always suspicious of speakers who make

every sentence a "pants-on-fire" moment.

[PatSeg]

13. Oh yes, that describes him perfectly

He was one of the most annoying people I've seen on MSNBC. I couldn't believe it when I saw his face again the other day. Definitely looks like he's trying too hard to look like a serious journalist, but he's the same Luke Russert with more facial hair.

[mobeau69]

28. Balding and trying to hide it. LOL.

[DET]

4. On the other hand...

I noticed that Russert has been pretty visible lately after leaving for quite a long while. Don’t love him, don’t hate him, but he does not have the presence and charisma of his father. Personally, I really like Chris Matthew’s, always have. He has his flaws, but he’s got a huge personality and enormous enthusiasm for politics.

[PatSeg]

14. I can take Matthew in small doses,

but not for an hour every weeknight. He can sometimes be politically insightful, but he has no real filter and doesn't know when to be quiet and let others talk.

[rubbersole]

20. And when he gets all tingly and won't stop marveling at W's flight suit 'package'.

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. Are you talking about something that happened 23 years ago?

?!?

[rubbersole]

23. Probably. The "Mission Accomplished" era.

I found it peculiarly shallow and fawning.

[PatSeg]

24. Yeah, some memories just never die!

[Bluetus]

15. Nepo baby. His father was the king of softballs and the proverbial access whore.

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Is this guy on MSNBC now? I have not

watched that network for several years. Sometimes I listen for short stretches on Sirius, but it is mostly torture because Comcast doesn't allow them to state the obvious on most subjects.

Does anybody actually think it will get better? I am about to the point that the only thing I watch on cable is a few football games. My local NBA is only on streaming now, as are the college hoops I would watch. It is way past time to cut the cable.

I do about 5X as many minutes per week on podcasts as I do teevee now. Does anybody have good recommendations for political podcasts that get to the important information quickly without all the personalities and drama? I tried Democracy Now, but that was just too depressing for me.

[Mike Nelson]

5. I think half is back...

... as a regular, and potential co-host at MSNOW. - that would be Luke. The other - Chris - has been a semi-regular with Joe and Mika for a long time and is around promoting his book, so he's branched out to other shows... but temporarily. Just my opinion.

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. A sexual predator and a nepo baby walk into a TV studio...

Lol

[-misanthroptimist]

29. ...and ask the bartender

...for something bland but still annoying.

[hlthe2b]

9. Not sure Russert bugs me as much since he's been back from his world tours as he did before...

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He seems to have grown up some. Of course, time will tell.

Matthews? He's still the blathering blowhard as before, but with a book now on Bobby Kennedy. He has at least called out RFK Jr's idiocy, so there is that...

[CTyankee]

32. Is there something new about Bobby Kennedy that we didn't already know?

I feel bad about what happened to him; I remember it well enough and how sad so many people felt. I don't doubt people's sorrow over losing him; it was tragic. But why bring him up now?

I may be missing something but Kennedy family nostalgia takes you only so far...

What I'd like to see more of is the efforts of women trying to get towards electing one President of the USA! We've gotta do better than we have been doing!

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, USA?

[cachukis]

12. Please, no. No.

[yorkster]

16. I hope Luke Russert was just sitting in

for Michael Steele....I hope.

[spanone]

17. K&R

[BidenRocks]

18. Since the beginning of the Depression in Nov. 2024

I have gone from hours daily to 5 hours total.

I feel better with Meidas.

[Cheezoholic]

19. Matthews is pushing his RFK book and also proving why they dropped him at the same time lol

No threat there. Now if they would just drop Joe "I balanced the budget for the first time in history 4 years in row" Scarfuckhead. I'd rather watch Bugs Bunny cartoons for 4 hours in the morning than listen to his "I was born a middleclass southen white boy" fucking insipid bullshit. Keep the rest of the crew anyway and call it Morning without Joe, yeah that's the ticket.
Joe Blow.... Nobody cares!!!! STFU.

[CTyankee]

33. I hope SNL does more satire on Morning Joe. Prolly not, tho, since they are busy satirizing tsf...

[Vinca]

30. Amen to that! Tweety, especially, has been on way too often of late.