Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Righting of MSNBC

2022-01-28 Thread PGage
I don’t think there is any reason to establish a standard that a news network should only contain straight news. That has never been the expectation for newspapers. The problem with Rachel is not that she delivers opinion, but that she delivers opinion and news reporting, without even much of an at

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Righting of MSNBC

2022-01-28 Thread Kevin M.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 7:21 PM PGage wrote: > I am not sure what premise you find absurd. My point is simply 1) MSNBC > has never been as liberal as Fox is conservative and 2) Changes at MSNBC > are going to result in it being even less liberal. I think both of those > things really are undeniab

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Righting of MSNBC

2022-01-27 Thread PGage
I am not sure what premise you find absurd. My point is simply 1) MSNBC has never been as liberal as Fox is conservative and 2) Changes at MSNBC are going to result in it being even less liberal. I think both of those things really are undeniably true. Perhaps you mean that none of that matters, a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Righting of MSNBC

2022-01-27 Thread Kevin M.
This is all an absurd premise. The gathering of information, reporting of facts, and contextual analysis can all be done in a nonpartisan way. The fact MSNBC isn’t as guilty of partisanship as Fox is not an excuse. On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:48 AM M-D November wrote: > > We can only hope this is

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Righting of MSNBC

2022-01-27 Thread M-D November
We can only hope this is more of a balancing act and less an act of 'both sides'-ism (TM Don Lemon). On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 9:09:50 AM UTC-5 PGage wrote: > I prefer straight news of course. But MSNBC has never been an equally but > opposite ideologically slanted operation to Fox, and