m$nbc is pathetic. no reporting. all editorializing.

[spanone]

from todd to andrea mitchell....

all slagging Obama....talking weakness bullshit.

might as well be watching a murdoch channel...

[merrily]

1. I think MSNBC may be anticipating a Republican President in 2016.

Six years into the Bush administration, I noted changes in anchors from right leaning (e.g., Tucker Carlson) to more left leaning. (Matthews stayed in place, but changed his riff.) Rhetoric also changed, too. I think they started reversing the process six years into the Obama administration.

[Hortensis]

9. I think management, and Washington insider groups, wants to sink HRC.

This is based on observing a pattern of decades of almost constantly slanted and outright dishonest coverage.

As for changing their lineup, various marketing reasons also contribute. IMO, they'd be fools to expect a GOP president this time around - unless they're heartened by the far left working to sink the Democratic Party, of course. But I don't think they're fools.

[malaise]

2. Fuggers have wars to sell

and the one percent's agenda's to serve. Todd is a fugging RW dunce and Mitchell is a neo-con tool who loves to be seen with 'important' people.

[spanone]

5. not one mention of: Obama Seeks Approval by Congress for Strike in Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/world/middleeast/syria.html

[procon]

3. Have you noticed a lot of new rightwing faces are popping up?

Their stable of contributors and so called experts has changed with a lot of familiar faces being replaced by pro-Republican spokesmodels. I can't recall whose show, but one of the quest panelists was actually a reporter from Glenn Beck's show, The Blaze.

Its MSNBC's fair and balanced version of Fox Lite!

[northoftheborder]

4. Totally disgusted

MSNBC has wiped off & thrown away most of the young, interesting hosts, leaving the the hacks, and adding more hacks. I can't believe Melissa, and Steve Karnacki are gone off Sat. am. How long are Chris Hayes and Rachel and Laurence O'Donnell going to last? Maybe they have guaranteed contracts. Just disgraceful how they have destroyed a dynamic team. Who to write to protest? Not that it would do any good.

[Hortensis]

11. Truth to tell, I didn't watch most of the "new kids," but I like

Hayes, Kornacki, and Ezra Klein, all very, very smart and fond of discussing numbers and facts. Like all hosts, I like them best when they are discussing issues with genuine experts in their fields -- instead of sitting around chatting with MSNBC's new younger generation of instant-experts-on-any-topic very serious people. I change the channel when those come on any show.

Rachel always. Tedious as she can be when she doesn't have something really good, she's fantastic when she does, which is often.

And O'Donnell. He really knows how things work in Washington. I've heard him smash many silly and/or dishonest MSM group-think "analyses." I just hope refusing to hide in a safe middle-of-the-pack position doesn't cost us him.

[99th_Monkey]

6. ugh. Comcast is 'having their way' with msnbc. -nt-

[Hortensis]

12. Yup. Guessing the leftward tilt to the national mood is alarming

Big Money out of complacency. These guys aren't just whimpering silly noise about liberal Nazis who want to destroy rich people.

[Botany]

7. They had on Eric Cantor this AM and before I turned it off he was talking about Obama's ....

..... lack of working w/the other side and that hurt Rep. Boner even though Eric was one
of the 14 who got together and plotted to block everything President Obama would try to
do in order to tank the economy and hurt the American people in order to keep Obama
from being re-elected.

Liberal Media =

[spanone]

8. thank God i missed that. jeebus, i didn't realize they had fallen that far!!!!

[Botany]

13. Eric was on Morning Joe .....

..... it took me 30 seconds to get the remote and turn it off.

[MineralMan]

10. It's not a news channel. Never was.

The definition of what's news and what is commentary has changed, at least for that industry. Most of the cable news channels are commentary most of the time. Viewers tend to think commentary is news, and that's encouraged by those channels.

[femmocrat]

14. I couldn't stand their coverage of the Pope's visit.

I ended up flipping between CNN and C-span. So many just plain stupid comments, like Matthews calling the Mass a "sacrament." He was a blathering fool throughout the entire coverage.

[valerief]

15. MSNBC = Media Saying Nothing But Corporatism. nt