I just landed on MSNBC for a couple of minutes. It should be renamed

[Subdivisions]

MSTMZ.

Moving along now...

[SeattleGirl]

1. Don't watch it until Olbermann and Maddow come on in the

evening.

Might change your mind.

[Subdivisions]

2. I stopped watching in early Dec. Was just checking the

stock market scores on my way across the dial. Though I loves me some Keif and Rachel, I only watch clips of them online when someone posts one on DU.

I just thought it was interesting to see that I made the right choice in quitting watching all day, every day. I'm sick of the celebri-gossip, the sensationalism, the day-side right-wing lean, the lame pundits, and the spinning politics and obvious propaganda.

[mwb970]

3. You're lucky you caught any programming at all.

Every time I tune in MSNBC for a "couple of minutes" I see a couple of minutes of commercials. Then a couple minutes more of commercials, and then maybe a couple minutes more after that. Sometimes I give up in disgust after 7 or 8 minutes in a row of advertising with no actual programming at all.

MS-Nothing-But-Commercials!

[louis-t]

4. Commercials for: 1. drugs, 2. insurance, 3. drugs...

4. cough medicine (drugs), 5. investment bankers...well, you get the idea.

[mwb970]

5. And so many of them!

I counted 22 commercials in a row during one long break on MSNBC. What if some small-company advertiser spent a ton of money to be, say, the 15th commercial in a string of 22? What is the likelihood that anyone will see or remember that particular ad?

Indeed, why would a cable network have such l-o-o-o-ong commercial breaks while knowing full well that every one of their viewers has at their fingertips a remote that allows them to instantly switch to any one of dozens of other channels? Is there a viewer somewhere who just sits there staring at 7 minutes of commercials, waiting for them to be over? I switch to another channel the moment the blitz begins!

:shrug:

[louis-t]

6. One of the reasons commercials have gotten so stupid.

They have to grab your attention in the first 3 seconds.