Twitter Update on Lawrence O'Donnell

[Hortensis]

66. Hi. Sure. I watched Olbermann for years,

and then Rachel and O'Donnell. The latter are still watched a lot of the time.

MSNBC'sevening lineup is far superior to the budget daytime one, but I took to heart results of studies reporting that, on testing, Fox viewers knew less about their nation and world than people who watched no news at all (!) but that, though CNN and MSNBC viewers did know more than the no-news people, they really weren't all that much better.

MSNBC is not a news network, of course, which accounts for some of it, but their programming was also so appallingly dishonest and self-serving during the election campaigns (not worse than before, just with such obvious destructive effect) that I said goodbye to almost all of it. Same for CNN.

Interesting how political talk shows seem to get more fact-based in the late hours, something that must reflect different audiences.

Do you or anyone remember the old long-running Nightline with Ted Koppel long, long ago? Great, intelligent show. For a long time I waited for it by watching through a horror of a right-wing political program that preceded it. Wish I could remember the guy's name, think he had a mental breakdown later or something. He used a sort of gladiatorial format where he would do verbal battle with "liberals" chosen for their extreme inarticulateness and scrawny builds, and he'd stride in and do a ritual rape of a couple of women from the audience (grab and "kiss" them Trump-style) before engaging.