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cleanhippie

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35. Actual "news" isn't profitable.

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 03:56 PM

Feb 2015

Catering to the "left" will only produce a left-wing version of Fox News.

Until someone decides that actual News should be placed above profits, this is what we get.

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Inside MSNBC�s Impending Shakeup: Cancellations, Reboots and Chief Phil Griffin [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2015 OP

What's the over/under on them going Fox Lite and dumping all the liberals? MohRokTah Feb 2015 #1

I have zero idea about Rachel/chopping-block, but in today's temper she's less vulnerable than Phil UTUSN Feb 2015 #5

Mostly Baggers in the comment section of that link. nt TheBlackAdder Feb 2015 #8

I catch Rachel in the early morning - since I'm up then JustAnotherGen Feb 2015 #2

They can start by canceling eissa Feb 2015 #3

To be fair, those shows are just dead-air filler. cleanhippie Feb 2015 #34

I know they are, but faux re-airs their programs, MSNBC should too. a kennedy Feb 2015 #36

To be fair, there is news on the weekend ... GeorgeGist Feb 2015 #41

Unless it's death and destruction, it ain't weekend news. cleanhippie Feb 2015 #54

Pretty sure news happens on the weekend eissa Feb 2015 #43

A truly populist, unabashedly socialist cable news channel would do very well at this moment. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #4

It would fail inside a month leftynyc Feb 2015 #22

So it would last longer than the current version? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #24

I have no idea what you're leftynyc Feb 2015 #25

Ditto. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #26

Join the club. HERVEPA Feb 2015 #28

Time to just scroll on by leftynyc Feb 2015 #30

You may be wrong there.. whathehell Feb 2015 #32

I completely agree leftynyc Feb 2015 #38

socialism? Like The Interstate highway system? The GI BILL after WW2? How about Social Security? I Vincardog Feb 2015 #52

Don't misunderstand me leftynyc Feb 2015 #67

The rubes have no idea because no one is offering them a choice. Let a real socialist run Sanders Vincardog Feb 2015 #69

Does anyone here watch LinkTV or FSTV? meaculpa2011 Feb 2015 #47

Love those channels eissa Feb 2015 #55

Every now and then I look at them. kentauros Feb 2015 #62

I watch both on Dish, FSTV for the excellent daily Thom Hartmann radio/TV program, appalachiablue Feb 2015 #68

Morning Joe may end up in the evening slot. grasswire Feb 2015 #6

reminds me of Air America olddots Feb 2015 #7

Long overdue. Ykcutnek Feb 2015 #9

Seems to me the they need to get rid of Griffin and Chris Matthews. They are the problem. If they jwirr Feb 2015 #10

Cool user name. I mean 'eman resu looc'. randome Feb 2015 #11

LOL yortsed snacilbuper Feb 2015 #14

Lock Up is lazy programming. octoberlib Feb 2015 #12

Really. If they're looking for good cheap to produce:ratings ratio programming then repackage the... Gidney N Cloyd Feb 2015 #46

Forget it Jake it's Comcast tularetom Feb 2015 #13

I can never watch in the daytime. oldandhappy Feb 2015 #15

I've long thought Ed Shultz should be repeated or moved to a better pm slot, 7-9. appalachiablue Feb 2015 #16

If they lose Rachel, they lose me. Paladin Feb 2015 #17

Please M$NBC - no "Evening Joe" RoverSuswade Feb 2015 #18

Is it a surprise to anyone that viewership of a news channel with a liberal slant stopbush Feb 2015 #19

There is one reason MSNBC can't compete with Fox in ratings: Vinca Feb 2015 #20

What does that mean? brooklynite Feb 2015 #21

In many areas it's exactly as I said. Fox is included in the standard package, MSNBC isn't. Vinca Feb 2015 #44

MSNBC is in every basic cable option available here in Atlanta. Calista241 Feb 2015 #56

Here they have CNN & Fox or CNN & Fox & MSNBC Ruby the Liberal Feb 2015 #51

Hmmm. On Time Warner here, Cnn-1350; Faux-1353; M$NBC-1354. madinmaryland Feb 2015 #60

HD isn't an option on the lower package Ruby the Liberal Feb 2015 #61

They are all on the SD channels. madinmaryland Feb 2015 #63

Yes - and I still can't get it Ruby the Liberal Feb 2015 #64

Al Jazeera? On a slightly different subject... madinmaryland Feb 2015 #65

Good for her! Ruby the Liberal Feb 2015 #66

I haven't noticed that TSIAS Feb 2015 #23

Some cable providers don't include it. JaneyVee Feb 2015 #31

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The reason that MSNBC is failing and Fox News is thriving is yeoman6987 Feb 2015 #33

Actual "news" isn't profitable. cleanhippie Feb 2015 #35

I can solve all of msnbc's ratings problem and turn it into a ratings bonanza. JaneyVee Feb 2015 #37

No No and more No !!! Ninga Feb 2015 #39

Oy vey. Prison is better than Little Lukie. Prison is better than any of MSNBC's right wing asshats. valerief Feb 2015 #50

Luke Russert has been around at least 5 years. I don't know that his style and association appalachiablue Feb 2015 #57

I quit watching MSNBC when they got rid of Keith Obermann Manifest Destiny Feb 2015 #40

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I loved his spirit. Manifest Destiny Feb 2015 #45

Why bump up Russert for a full hour when they already have Steve Kornacki, Chris Hayes & to the appalachiablue Feb 2015 #48

To the tune of "Tradition"... JHB Feb 2015 #53

I guess some of that Koch Bros money wants MSNBC primetime. nt valerief Feb 2015 #49

Bring back Keith Gothmog Feb 2015 #58

Get rid of Sharpton and Schultz Teutonic Samuel Feb 2015 #59