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In reply to the discussion: Regarding MSNBC [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)That fat guy who got thin on the air, his name escapes me, and who eventually died of cancer, was running programming. That was a full decade ago. Ancient history. The guy fired Phil Donohue, as I recall and took over his show slot for a brief period of time. Before that, when MSNBC was first starting up in the mid nineties, they had Ann Coulter on their payroll. How anyone could mistake them for liberal in the early years is beyond me.
That "Jack Welch" seeded MSNBC back in those earlier years also hired Don Imus and Michael Savage.
Tim Russert had yet to take the BUSH button off the back lapel of the tux he wore to the Al Smith Dinner.
Many markets didn't even CARRY MSNBC--it didn't have anywhere near the reach that Fauxsnooze had.
Once upon a time, CBS was a champion of Truth, Justice and the American way. Then they fired Dan Rather. Then they didn't fire Lara Logan when she cobbled together a bullshit story out of bubble gum, baling wire and spurious sources.
When there is a change in management, there's often a change in philosophy.
The MSNBC of the Jack Welch era would never have hired Rachel Maddow, or Keith Olbermann. All of those changes happened after that asshole retired.
And MSNBC does now serve as the liberal answer to Fox. The numbers don't lie:
http://www.journalism.org/2012/11/16/final-weeks-mainstream-press/