MSNBC's Identity Crisis

[Joanne98]

Run time: 07:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btVM8aB4NWM   Posted on YouTube: November 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheAlyonaShow Views on YouTube: 106   Posted on DU: November 18, 2010 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 603

 
Media personalities are butting heads, and calling each other out like Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly's rebuttals to Koppel. But the bigger picture is the identity crisis at hand. MSNBC is unable to decide if they are partisan, objective, or something in between. Alex Weprin Co-Editor of Mediabistro's TV Newser gives an inside look at the network.

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1. MSNBC's Identity Crisis

I have to agree. I mean, MSNBC is totally trying too hard to be non-partisan these days (or at least look that way to the outside world). That's why the suspended Olbermann, but wisely decided against it due to the hypocrisy behind it.

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2. The 3 hours with Joe Scarborough

Must be eliminated if they are serious about being a progressive news network.

[Joanne98]

4. AMEN!

[JDPriestly]

3. The campaign against the "lefties" on MSNBC seems to be manufactured.

After all, there is nothing "leftie" about Scarborough who is an MSNBC mainstay.

Could it be that Comcast is behind the furor? Is Comcast trying to cover itself or a proposed attempt to end the programs of the "lefties" on MSNBC?

I suspect that Comcast is behind this.

And I also believe that Olbermann's fans are the reason that his absence from MSNBC was so short-lived. Those of us who like MSNBC really like it because it is, for us, a breath of fresh air.

As for the objectivity of news reporting in the past, it took years and a couple of relatively unknown reporters to uncover the truth behind the Watergate story although the fact that Nixon was lying had to have been apparent to any halfway intelligent person observing him. And the assassination spree that started with the murder of JFK was never fully investigated or reported.

This nostalgia about the supposedly objective, oh so objective, news of the past is partly the product of aging memories. For example, Ted Koppel seems to have completely forgotten that Paul Harvey was a big figure in the media way back when. And my dad used to talk about Father Coughlin.

Leave MSNBC alone. Fox is all right-wing, all the time. MSNBC is not.