How MSNBC Worked To Promote Fracking
June 17, 2016
How MSNBC Worked To Promote Fracking
by Steve Horn
Cable TV network MSNBC has made headlines in recent days for apparently moving away from its “Lean Forward” progressive brand, catering instead to a more center-to-right-leaning crowd.
“People might start accusing us of leaning too far to the right,” the station says in a new advertisement featuring MSNBC‘s conservative personalities — an array of Republican identities such as Michael Steele, Steve Schmidt and Ben Ginsberg.
But on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) for shale oil and gas, documents from 2011 obtained under Oklahoma’s Open Records Act demonstrate that the network saw itself as a promoter of both the controversial drilling method and natural gas vehicles.
NBCUniversal, at the time, was owned on a 49-percent basis by the natural gas utility and electricity company General Electric (GE) and is now wholly owned by Comcast.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/17/how-msnbc-worked-to-promote-fracking/
