MSNBC is broken, very very broken

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48. MSNBC problems begin with Chris Matthews

This little twerp swings a big say about what goes on there. I recall him openly being very nasty and condescending to Ed on a primary election coverage program when they had all the anchors at one table. Matthews couldn't stand Keith either. Neither Ed or Keith showed much deference to the established political insiders from media and the beltway. Matthews on the other hand can't fall on his knees fast enough to kiss the backside of those people. Comcast isn't going to give a crap about ratings because this is now going to be THEIR propaganda channel. As a for instance would it really be too much to ask for at least one of the programs in over twelve hours of programming to have some actual serious experts on today to talk about the bills Alan Grayson introduced to raise Social Security benefits? Because the subject is anathema to Comcast it will not happen. Instead we get hours of Trump and we get at least our one hour of vile backbiting from Andrea Mitchell and our 3 hours of Morning Joke foaming at the mouth about e-mail. Why in all this time can't somebody just look at that idiot and say to him "If e-mail and servers are so damned important then why after all these weeks have you not had on an IT person who could explain to us how this all works rather than all of this mindless speculation?" There are two reasons why that hasn't happened. First of all anybody who did say that would never appear on air again and secondly they all know that the mindless speculation fuels doubt and that is what the producers/hosts want. Cross that up and you will be gone and no more TV appearance fees. So they sell out.