Just what image do you think MSNBC has created? From my POV it is
a Lily White branch of the Dem party with no time for any other
viewpoints. With Olbermann gone it still is - no change there at all
except maybe not quite as loud but just as delusional. Interesting that
this is the first I have seen menton of Current TV since Algore started
it. Where does it even exist? Must have taken over the offices of Air
America. Just hope they don't steal money from the boys and Girls Clubs
like Air America did.
As for Fox, they are about the only ones who have all points of view
broadcasting. The general slant might be to the right but the left is
also there and included unlike any of the other news channels. The rest
of them probably have most of the subscribers to The Nation and Mother
Jones as employees.
On 02/12/2011 04:58 PM, the daily search wrote:
There's nothing wrong with MSNBC not wanting to become Fox News Left
and there's nothing negative about Keith being free to do his own
thing, whether it's on the internet or his own HBO show like Bill
Maher or with Current Tv, as was announced this week. Would you rather
have Keith still at MSNBC in perpetual conflict with the image goals
the MSNBC execs have for the channel? It' s not that MSNBC doesn't
like left leaning commentators...Lawrence O'Donnell is an admitted
socialist and they just gave him Keith Olbermann's time slot! It's
just that people, like Jon Stewart, were starting to see no difference
between the angry voices at Fox and Keith. Television, whether we like
it or not, is image conscious and MSNBC didn't want the kind of image
that Fox News has created for themselves. They didn't want to get into
a shouting match with another "news organization" and I don't blame
them. Controversy is not worthy of a professional news organization.
Fox News should take note of MSNBC's decision to break with Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann's loyal audience are painting MSNBC as the devil in
this case but why can't both sides be right? Boycotting a News
Organization that has given Left Wing commentators a high profile
platform...
More:
http://demcordia.blogspot.com/2011/02/olbermann-msnbc-split-win-win-for-both.html
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