Cenk Leaves MSNBC (Inside Story)

[Pharaoh]

Last edited Sat May 14, 2016, 08:35 PM - Edit history (2)

The story behind Cenk being booted off the air by MSNBC, the supposedly Liberal network,(which we all know now is a total joke!!)

Uploaded on Jul 20, 2011
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) explains why he turned down a new, significantly larger MSNBC contract after hosting a prime-time show on the network that was beating CNN in the ratings. He also shares his thoughts on Rachel Maddow and Fox News.

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[BillZBubb]

1. MSNBC is the corporatist network now.

Anyone who says anything bad about Her Corporate Majesty is shown the door.

[NewImproved Deal]

30. Yep. The unpurged hosts and anchors are noxious suckups for the Clinton Machine...

[Enthusiast]

38. Noxious is a good word. +1

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

58. There does seem to be a disturbing pattern to all this... hmmm

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Beaverhausen]

2. Didn't that happen in 2011?

[Pharaoh]

3. And happened to Ed Schultz too

Yes it's older news. But still interesting to folks who don't know the whole story. This is not LBN you know?

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Fast forward to when Ed was dropped, and after that...

... when Rachel towed the line for the corporation. I wonder if he would have a slightly different point of view over Rachel Maddow.

I dropped MSNBC, CNN before that, and WAAY before that, all the other water carriers. The internet is the only path to truth, and even there, you have trolls everywhere trying to drive the commentary.

[zentrum]

7. Actually, I can't

…even watch Rachel any more. Apart from her move to the center, she can't get over herself and it's hard to witness.

[arikara]

12. I can't watch her anymore either

Occasionally I flick over to see what she's on about but she ever talks about is Trump.

[840high]

14. I don't even flick. No use for her.

[trueblue2007]

24. WRONG. Rachel talks about everyone and everything. FLINT MICHIGAN don't you know !!!!

she is always talking about Bernie too. What you said is simply not true. It is just your biased opinion.

[Duval]

26. LOL!

Good joke!

[Enthusiast]

37. Sorry, Duval. I no longer see this as a laughing matter.

A free and fair media is essential to maintaining democracy. We can see that democracy is but a shell of its former self.

There are many thousands of paid corporate sock reptiles inhabiting the internet. You can see them every day on the DU and anywhere else you care to look. But that's not enough, the corporations must also infest all of print media, television and radio.

The nation is in very real trouble from an enemy far greater than any faked up terroristic threat.

[Enthusiast]

36. Yeah. We all heard her anti-Bernie narrative early in the primary. She was following a script

written by corporate insiders. Thousands of us left MSNBC because of their clear dishonesty and bias.

MSNBC does not deserve us! Boycott MSNBC!

[arikara]

48. I still check her out every now and then like I said

and every time I do she's going on about Trump. Coincidence? Maybe it could be.
Where you get the "biased opinion" from I don't know, or are you joking and I'm missing it?

[SusanCalvin]

54. Oh please. She covers what the corporation allows her to. nt

[Siwsan]

57. I will always be thankful for Rachel putting a big focus on my hometown, Flint

She really was the first, on the national stage, to express outrage at what had happened. Hopefully she will continue to follow what is going on, and keep up on calling out our shameless governor.

[zeemike]

5. They seduce them with money.

And I am sure managment was shocked when he did not take the money and become a team player like the rest do.
The love of money is the root of all corruption as well as evil.

[rurallib]

9. follow the money, follow the money, follow the money

the most important lesson I have learned here.

[SCantiGOP]

23. That is an extremely simple way to look at things

[rurallib]

45. always a good starting point, though

[SusanCalvin]

50. The answer to any question staring "why don't they -"

is almost always "money."

http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/SciFi/Heinlein.html

[snort]

11. Buh bye.

[mac56]

16. New in town, aint'cha?

Enjoy your stay.

[lastlib]

20. hope your pizza is cold. With anchovies. And you gag on it.

[colsohlibgal]

8. Yes, He Didn't Cave

Nor did Keith, Ed, or Dylan. Rachel and Lawrence took big bucks over principle. I have lost all respect for both of them.

I have not watched that network awhile ago and have no plans to come back.

The good news is the Web, where you can get real progressive talk, and with a smart TV or enabled Blu Ray you can watch it on your TVs.

[SusanCalvin]

51. What channels? nt

[Jemmons]

10. Hapened to Melissa Harris-Perry too

[SusanCalvin]

53. I'm a big fan

of both her and the righteous stink she made on her way out.

[tiredtoo]

13. unfortunately true

Rachael has been bought out as has Lawrence. MSNBC is off my watch list. TYT is the solution. Told a hard core right wing friend i no longer watch msnbc as it is too right wing for me. he was shocked but i told him to check it out. it currently is just another Trump system.

[Enthusiast]

39. The switch away from liberal content happened so fast that most casual viewers are aware of it.

Honestly I would like to see them fail completely. They don't deserve an audience.

[Zen Democrat]

43. They are the new fair and balanced. Noticed how many Republicans now go on the shows?

Remember when they didn't? That's what I'm talking about. The rot began with Morning Joe and now that show is Imus Without Cowboy Hats.

[SusanCalvin]

55. Yep. And they apparently think we're too stupid to notice. nt

[glowing]

15. Both Ratigan and Schultz are gone....

[Duval]

27. And Keith Olbermann!!

[Zen Democrat]

44. And Martin Bashir!

[ybbor]

56. And Phil Donahue

To go way back

[Jitter65]

17. Well, why don't they all get together and form their own liberal network? nt

[JoeOtterbein]

18. Yes, that is why Bernie is calling for a Dem Fox

Real news for a change.

[Enthusiast]

40. If we had a Dem Fox I fear it would soon be undermined and controlled by party insiders

with a corporate agenda. You know, the ones that say single payer health care is unrealistic and impossible even though the entire rest of the developed world has achieved it.

If someone says the United States cannot have single payer Medicare for All health care their credibility is forever shot. I'm just saying.

[erronis]

52. Yup - they already have one waiting in the wings. Funding, programmings - all set!

The USofA is a laughing stock in the real world. We have let feudal/vested interests control 99.99% of the health and welfare of the whole country.

Most of the rest of the world had a good purging in the last 100 years or so and has moved on to a fairly humanitarian view of rights.

The US is still holding on to its idea of superiority of white men that fled England's stifling religious constrictions ---- guess what?

[George II]

19. FIVE years ago? Please.....and if you bother to look at your own source, you'd see that...

....he wasn't "booted".

[Overseas]

21. K&R. I'd never heard this. Thanks for posting this bit of history.

[tom_kelly]

22. I would be nice to see Cenk

bring Keith, Ed, Dylan, Melissa together for a big show on just this topic. I can dream.

[Enthusiast]

35. Huge +1!

[JeaneRaye]

25. Yeah but....

Since Cenk recorded all this, Rachel has sold out.

[Enthusiast]

41. She sure has, sold out. She knows we know, too.

I don't know how she lives with it.

[Thinkingabout]

28. Now this is news, FIVE years ago news, as in 2011.

[Pharaoh]

29. as stated in the OP

Hey! Still Relevant!!

[Thinkingabout]

31. Maybe if history is your main interest.

[Pluvious]

46. It's never wise to ignore history

I too missed this clip, and appreciate the OP posting it.

[Hydra]

47. lol, History = not important?

Thanks for the honesty.

[lovemydog]

33. Thanks.

I like The Young Turks, particularly Cenk and Ana. I watched this segment when it came out and it's interesting revisiting it a few years later. Much respect to Cenk for making that decision. I don't watch much cable television 'news.' I prefer being online or reading books.

Am I mistaken (because I haven't been watching much in the past year or so) or is Ana Kasparian not appearing as often on TYT? If anyone can provide more details on this, it would be appreciated. I enjoy hearing her take on things and especially enjoy when she and Cenk appear together.

[Enthusiast]

42. Ana Kasparian is super appealing.

[Enthusiast]

34. When Cenk left MSNBC they were developing a corporate agenda. Now it is fully developed

and they have become little more than a less repulsive version of Fox "News". MSNBC mirrors the reality that we must face about the Democratic Party.

The corporations have determined that they do not want "We the People" to hear the truth. They only want us to hear a pack of lies that fit their agenda. Now the truth is nowhere to be heard on the mainstream media.

The truth is gone and democracy is gone. As a result the nation is in crisis.

[RufusTFirefly]

49. Looking for another corporate network to take MSNBC's place?

This new one won't sell out.



Folks. Guess what? If you want a reliable network that doesn't corrupt its reporters or sell out to corporate interests, the only solution is a viewer/listener sponsored one. A truly listener/viewer sponsored one, not National rePublican Radio, for example, which continues to hoodwink listeners who remember its halcyon days. Those days have been gone for more than 20 years. Because NPR remains "smart," a lot of people mistakenly think it's still progressive, too. Trust me: It ain't.

As for MSNBC, assuming it ever took a truly "liberal" viewpoint (and I am inclined to doubt that), MSNBC did so not because it shared our progressive agenda or even because it valued the truth. It did so because it made its shareholders money and because it didn't threaten the powers-that-be. As soon as it no longer met those goals, bye bye liberal viewpoint.

What's the alternative? A true alternative? Listen/watch Democracy Now! specifically and Pacifica Radio in general. Another excellent option is TRNN, the Real News Network.

Follow the money and you won't be hurt when the next progressive network you pin your hopes on breaks your heart by going over to the dark side.