Dear Democrats: MSNBC not covering today's Judiciary Committee hearing live is not

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7. Corporate profits is the only real answer.

MSNBC is owned by Comcast, certainly profits are high on their list of important things to do today. These hearings, while interesting to political junkies, reporters and media hosts, do not attract a large TV audience. Without a high viewership and big ratings, advertisers are reluctant to buy ad time from the corporate broadcasters.

Until the average public TV watcher finally hears enough about these oversight and investigatory hearings to become interested they are not going to get much media coverage.