Gretchen Carlson reportedly in talks to join MSNBC, would be third ex-Fox News anchor to head to NBC

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

Third time’s a charm?

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who settled a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against former Fox News chief Roger Ailes last year, is reportedly in talks to join MSNBC, Business Insider writes.

Carlson wouldn’t be the first to join the left-leaning cable news network, after Greta Van Susteren made the same move earlier this year.

Business Insider cites sources familiar with the matter and writes that Carlson’s deal “had not yet been finalized, but was nearing completion.”



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/gretchen-carlson-reportedly-talks-join-msnbc-article-1.2982462

[Lotusflower70]

1. Wth?

This is seriously bizarre. I can't stand Greta and I hate Gretchen.

[shenmue]

2. Yeah

[cstanleytech]

5. Then dont watch.

Frankly I gave on cable news soon after Fox News became popular.

[Lotusflower70]

9. I won't

Most of my television watching is sports and movies. I am going to shift from cable soon.

[DK504]

43. Getting ready to cut the cord myself.

Roku Ultra is looking really good right now. Just when I started watching Rachel and Chris again, I don't know if I can support this station any longer.

[Lotusflower70]

47. Yes indeed

I have been seriously looking at Google Chromecast. There are so many options now. Plus I do have season tickets for football. And working on getting at least half season for hockey. It is definitely the time to do it.

[Hortensis]

54. We did. A few of the evening shows can be

worth watching at times, but the day shows are mostly irresponsible, dishonest drivel with low-price, usually low-info talking heads pushing whatever lines producers think viewers want to hear.

[Demsrule86]

60. MSNBC wiil be sorry.

They already have lost me...and others...and will never get the righties.

[George II]

3. MSNBFOX? And yet Joy Reid is relegated to a few morning hours on the weekend?

[iluvtennis]

14. Yes, Joy deserves to be promoted to weekday gig. Shameful all of these fox ppl infiltrating MSNBC

[Calista241]

28. Joy had a daily show for awhile.

For whatever reason, they reassigned her, and just recently gave her AM Joy in the time slot to replace Melissa Harris Perry's old show.

[brush]

37. They dumped Tamron Hall for Kelly. Hope they don't do the same to Joy for Carlson.

MSNBC seems to want faux noise bimbettes now, the same ones that were sprewing right wing talking points just a few short months ago.

[Me.]

53. Love Joy

But that afternoon show of hers was a clunker. She was always smart and incisively analytical so I wonder if it was the producers. "We The Tweebles" as a segment?

[Judi Lynn]

18. There's nothing to respect about any of those Fox transplants. They are maggots. n/t

[targetpractice]

34. I love Joy... She does four hours over the weekend, and I think she excels...

Her show dives deeper into subjects than the weekday shows.

[DeminPennswoods]

41. Joy is getting a weekday gig

I heard it on one of the MSNBC shows she or Ari Melber were guest-hosting last week. She said she said she would now be leading in at 11AM to Melber at noon, iirc.

[iluvtennis]

57. Yes, indeedy!

[democratisphere]

4. Fox News is infiltrating the other major news networks. I hope all news doesn't become fake news.

[roamer65]

6. The one to hire away from Faux News is Shepard Smith.

He is the most journalistic and honest one of the bunch.

[cstanleytech]

7. Thats not saying much though since he does still work for them and has for years. nt

[Lotusflower70]

10. Hmmm

I read that CNN was trying to get him.

[sakabatou]

8. Everybody's moving to the right

[RKP5637]

27. They feel that's where the money is. I've often read that news operations often align with

the political shift in the country feeling that if they got voted in, that will give them the most viewers. I have no idea if it's right or wrong. That said, I don't like the direction of MSNBC. I think their goal is to be a mini-Fox operation.

[tblue37]

52. HRC got 3 million more votes, so that can't be their thinking. Mainly it is because

the networks are owned by big corporations that support the Republican pro-military, anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-social spending agenda.

They care about the money, period.

[lagomorph777]

64. Bingo.

Jingo.

[turbinetree]

11. This gives me more reason to donate to FREE SPEECH TV

she can run but she can't hide.

She has said some pretty awful things when she was employed at Faux News

[rogue emissary]

45. Free Speech TV isn't much better as they love airing air quotes "interviews" with Jill Stein.

I donated to them in the past but stopped during the DNC convention coverage.

[Demsrule86]

61. I won't donate anymore either although I always did...Jill Stein is a Trump supporter

in reality...they can praise all they want on someone else's dime.

[Chicago1980]

12. Da phuck!

[Scruffy1]

13. Left leaning network?

I think the article writer doesn't know what goes on his shoes.

[NBachers]

15. I think he's walking around with his shoes on the wrong feet. "Left leaning network?" Pshaw

[shadowmayor]

16. Oh boy!

Can't wait to see Rachel in a long blonde wig, wearing a mini-skirt and high heels!!! Ugh Another Comcast corporate blight on the boob tube.

[RKP5637]

29. Yeah, Rachel does a make-over for Fox News, oops, I mean MSNBC. It's owned by

Comcast, I expect to see more of the same as they turn MSNBC into another right wing trash news source.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, 'cause greta's working out so well?

[Submariner]

19. Another racist Fox asshole on NBC? Is this a fucking blond joke on Liberals?

First the scientology freak Greta, and now Gretchen 'is Serena racist' Carlson. And I hear Meghan "Santa and Jesus are white" Kelly is joining the flock!

WTF

[Botany]

26. Like her or not but Carlson is not just a dumb blond.

Yes, she acted on Fox News and spread talking points but
she is no dumb blond.

[Dustlawyer]

33. Agree she is not dumb, but she played one on TV.

Which one will we get, the smart real version, or the dumb act? Don't really care either way. What current personality will be sacrificed for this one?

[Botany]

35. It makes no differnce to me because I will never watch her

Except if she decides to be a real journalist.

[brush]

38. Smart or not, the fact that she was willing to spread right wing talking points is the point.

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I prefer journalists with at least a smattering of principles, at least enough to not sell them out so readily.

And didn't she just get a huge settlement from faux noise?

She's not hurting for money.

[Botany]

40. no doubt she is a "news whore" for hire and she knew what she was doing @ Fox too ...

.... but she did bring down Roger Ailes (although he did get a multi million $ buy out and
$500,000 back channel payment per year).

[Submariner]

39. I know she is from the Stanford cesspool like Condaleeza

and plays the dumb blond to the rubes, but it does not make her any less an Aryan racist piece of crap.

[SunSeeker]

20. Ug.

[duhneece]

21. Yes, I believe that MSNBC is a left-leaning tv station

Rachel M. I guess that's enough to call the whole brand left-leaning.

I have no tv of my own. I loved when I could watch Free Speech. There is no better journalist than Thom Hartmann and I suggest DUers donate to Free Speech sending love AND money to Thom. We need REAL journalists like Thom. But having no TV, renting rooms from a man who watches sports 99% of the time except for when I have to use the kitchen and then he'll turn it to MSNBC or CNN (he doesn't pay for access to Thom), you can't imagine how much I appreciate watching on something besides my laptop. At least I have some idea of what's going on. I like watching Joe and Mika turn on Trump (don't think I have come to like them, but I like that one tiny aspect).

I made some trades in order to run for office, which I suggest DUer do in droves. Some things happened (deaths) that denied me the choices I had before. I love that Fox is losing folks and I actually look forward to their transition, if I get to see it.

[OnDoutside]

32. And yet Hartmann is on Putin's Russia Today, plus

you can watch all the cable news channels here

http://www.hulkusc.com/watch-msnbc-live-streaming/

http://www.hulkusc.com/cnn-news-live-streaming/

and other cable links on there too

[duhneece]

44. Is Thom Hartmann on cable?

On Both links, I get an error when I search for Thom-could just be a glitchy morning. I'll try later. he's all I really care to watch since my landlord lets me watch the MSNBC & CNN bits in the morning that are important to me. I get the gist when I'm living in town....but oh, to get Thom would be a dream come true. I am one of those poor-ish folks living in a small town, but going out to my land which I rarely get NPR, no tv, only some local radio right-wing stations, but our Chair of Dem party who is also a City Commissioner is on once a week for an hour, is on it.

[Kolesar]

22. Greta slimed Gretchen Carlson and the network puts them together?

Carlson left Fox News because she was sexually harassed by Roger Ailes.
Greta Van Sustern tried to ruin her.
http://people.com/tv/greta-van-susteren-regrets-not-believing-gretchen-carlson/

[wolfie001]

23. These allegiance changes make me think of the time-honored expression:

All's fair in love and war. Right?

[heaven05]

24. MSNBCFoxnews lite

Joy Reid...a treasure. These latest three from the trumpchannel...not so much.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. MSNBC becomes Fox, CNN becomes MSNBC, Fox has only one place to go -

Breitbart-style (or Infowars or...)!

And this part from the article -

left-leaning cable news network

Really?

About all they have left as "left" is Rachael & Lawrence, and Joy & Al (on weekends).

Tweety is not "left" but is a windvane-prone disaster and Chris is too wimpy and lets people run all over him so he's useless.

MSNBC's "ratings" problem is not the need to go with RW lunatic hosts. It's the need to get the channel available in more markets and locations - at least as many as Faux and CNN is in. I.e., if you travel around the U.S. and stay in a hotel, chances are close to 100% that MSNBC is NOT one of the channels in the hotel's available lineup.

[RKP5637]

31. Yep, many places I've stayed MSNBC is not on the available lineup. n/t

[DeminPennswoods]

42. It's weird because Comcast owns NBC

You'd think Comcast would put MSNBC on its basic cable if for no other reason than that they own NBC and it's cable network.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. MSNBC leans left?

in 2017?

[LiberalFighter]

36. NYDailyNews must have a different idea of what is left-leaning news.

[jzodda]

46. FYI Greta is coming in last in ratings since her move

I won't watch her and my TV is always on MSNBC in the background.

[dgibby]

50. I switch the channel as soon as she comes on.

She's a disaster. I still watch Rachel M., Lawrence O., and of course, Joy. The rest-not so much.

[Sorceress]

59. Great News!

I always make sure to avoid her show and hoped others were doing the same. I tune in to see Chris Hayes, Rachel and Lawrence. On the weekends, I am sure to record AMJoy.

[jzodda]

65. Especially in this age of trump I can't handle somebody like her.

Message to MSNBC

Make better anchor choices if you want better ratings for your entire lineup.

Maddow is just killing it ratings wise now for MSNBC.

[joet67]

48. I hardly watch MSNBC any more. Stuff like this is why.

[CCExile]

49. Just because they are leaving

a sinking ship, it is no reason to hire rats!

[LiberalLovinLug]

51. Just do a Google search or Youtube search for her name and "Obama" or "Democrats"

Years of baseless attacks, fear mongering, and outright lies.

How can anyone from that cesspool Fox News have any journalistic credibility at all?

[samnsara]

55. as long as they dont replace any of my favs....then shes welcome.

[PsychoBabble]

56. Rachel, Lawrence, Joy ....

Enough insight and heart to keep me watching THEIR shows. I ignore the rest anyway. But DOES make me think less of MSNBC.

[iluvtennis]

58. +1000nt

[Blue_Tires]

62. Why is everyone scrambling to hire Fox castoffs?

[lagomorph777]

63. I guess General Electric noticed they had a less-corporatist media outlet in their portfolio

and decided to take advantage of Faux's declining fortunes and remake MSNBC into a GOP mouthpiece.

[Skittles]

66. gawd