The Problem with MSNBC [View all]

[Phillyindy]

Is that its existence destroys our moral high ground when we demand honest, objective news reporting, or when we rightfully condemn the Republican propaganda outlet that is Fox News.

What's worse is MSNBC isn't the left's version of Fox, not even close. While it unquestionably aims to prop up Democrats and criticize Republicans, it doesn't lie and mislead and fearmonger to do so. Rarely will you hear any reporting on MSNBC that isn't factually accurate. As a division of NBC, they must uphold basic journalistic standards that Fox employees have never even heard of. MSNBC doesn't donate to Democratic politicians or prop up and support liberal movements like Fox does.

Most importantly, MSNBC doesn't spend its days advocating for true liberal policies or speaking truth to power to our fascist government.

Moderate Republicans, tea party nuts, and blue dog Democrats get about 100 times more airtime on MSNBC then a Tom Hartman, an Alan Grayson or an Elizabeth Warren.

And yet MSNBC allows Republicans to make the assertion that there is a "liberal media". It allows the public at large to make the assertion that "the right has Fox, and the left has MSNBC", creating a false equivalency that both liberal and conservative views are equally represented on cable news, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Which is why I personally wish MSNBC would end its current faux-liberal programming and go back to straight reporting. As liberals, we don't need a propaganda outlet, we just need the facts to get out there.

It's the right who needs to lie and spin and mislead, and MSNBC's existence makes it really difficult to prove that or make such an assertion.