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alp227

(33,234 posts) Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:39 PM Feb 2016

MSNBC is nothing special - just your typical corporate media infotainment outlet. [View all]

The firing of MHP shows that MSNBC is as bad as the others with being a news outlet, in prioritizing business interests over integrity. This is why it's important to support non profit and independent news media. The low quality of commercial "news media" on TV, as well as cable TV in general, shows why this whole "free market will do better" argument is a bunch of BS. Good thing Newt Gingrich didn't get his way back in the mid 1990s, or the idiocracy we live in would be worse than it is now.

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MSNBC is nothing special - just your typical corporate media infotainment outlet. [View all] alp227 Feb 2016 OP

A business making business decisions. It happens ... Buzz Clik Feb 2016 #1

MSNBC is A Trump PR network aaaaaa5a Feb 2016 #2

Things have really sunken THAT low, huh? CNN being better than MSNBC? alp227 Feb 2016 #3

That honeymoon ended years ago for me. I will not watch M$NBC, or FacistNews, or CorpNewsNetwork. Kip Humphrey Feb 2016 #4

I don't know anybody that would survive in the workplace sending an email like that about the boss' yeoman6987 Feb 2016 #5

That was after not showing up for work. pintobean Feb 2016 #6

That's true. I forgot she didn't show up for work yeoman6987 Feb 2016 #8

I left with Keith Oberman. eom JEB Feb 2016 #7

My experience is people who try to shame their employer publicly aren't retained HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #9

The entire M$M is nothing put corporate propaganda, now with fake news commercials! Rex Feb 2016 #10

Free Speech TV is the only thinking person's option. mmonk Feb 2016 #11