MSNBC Cuts Away From Clinton Speech To Criticize Her Tone

[riversedge]

Well I missed this cutting off.




http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/msnbc-cuts-away-clinton-speech-criticize

MSNBC Cuts Away From Clinton Speech To Criticize Her Tone
By Karoli Kuns

3/05/16 7:59pm
8 hours ago by Heather
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For the past hour, I've been watching MSNBC -- Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell and Michael Steele -- wait on pins and needles for Donald Trump to give a speech. But while they were waiting, Hillary Clinton gave a speech just after Louisiana was called for her.
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This.

They cut away from Clinton mid-speech so they could criticize her tone. I don't care who you're backing in the primaries. This was just disrespectful network bullshit. They cut away from Bernie too, but not to criticize him.

Shame on every last damn one of them.

[GusBob]

1. Just turn them off. They want to make you mad

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Like it's the figure-skating Olympics

'Oh! She bobbled landing that jump!"

[Coolest Ranger]

3. I did not

watch the coverage because I had a feeling they would do something like that

[femmedem]

4. They have some amazing egos to think the political junkies watching election results

are more interested in their banter than in the speeches of our presidential candidates.

[RBInMaine]

5. It was a primary night speech in a more excited way. She has given MANY "conversational" speeches.

This is just talking head BS.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. I can't bear the TV coverage.

The fawning over Trump and the repetition of inanities with no substantive reporting whatsoever.

So I just refer to the NYT website and coverage of the elections (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html?_r=0), while watching something else entirely on TV. Last night, it was the most recent episode of "Black Sails" and a recorded season finale of "Doc Martin" on cable, along with Season 8, Episode 2 of "Foyle's War" on Netflix. I've also begun watching "Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries" on Netflix.

Fans of Tony Hillerman's novels will recognize Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, along with a primarily Native American cast, in the last.

It makes for a much more pleasant evening.

The NYT also has separate sites, with charts for each state race as it happens, e.g., yesterday in LA. http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/louisiana

[Her Sister]

9. totally agree!

I also don't feel like being manipulated by the media. With their constant hard on for Trump. Thinking their take on the Democrat's election is valid!! Media we got your number.

[rpannier]

7. I mean... but it's the tone... the tone!

Far more important than what she said because... the tone

They pay these fools so much damned money it's like they have to find a teason to put their faces on screen

The most egregious example (IMO) came from 2008 on CNN. I was in east Asia, woke up, getting dressed and listening to then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology in parliament for the pain and devastation inflicted upon Aboriginal people in Australia.
They break away from his speech on CNN-International, place PM Rudd speaking in a small box and we are 'treated' to CNN chatter yakkers telling us what the PM is saying at that moment.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to just let us listen to what PM Rudd is saying? Not when you pay the 'Meet the Stupids Stupider Relations' a few million plus per year

In Mediocrity the only thing that matters is getting the mugs of those dimwits on the screen to attempt to justify those inflated salaries.
Hell, Brian Williams was making like 20+ mil a year. Doing a really lousy job at something I could have done better (and would have done) for less

[Cha]

8. Assholes aren't going to stop being assholes. They want to Dean Scream her... you know

they do.

[FlaGranny]

10. I didn't see that,

I was doing something else at the time, I guess. I saw them do the same thing to Sanders, then later in the evening they broadcast the ENTIRE Trump garbage speech.

[Thinkingabout]

11. The MJ disparaging of Hillary moved me away from MSNBC,

It was Three hours advertisement for Sanders, Trump and Cristi, turned to New Day and like my mornings much more.

I don't understand the mention of tone, Sanders shouts, Trump is disgusting and they want to talk about her tone. It says a lot, a woman is judged very differently than men.

[pandr32]

16. I know--right! What about Trump's tone?

He is hard to listen to--talks like an idiot and repeats everything twice just to make sure we heard him. He talks as though the TV audience is 5 years old. I take offense and can't watch. Even though I am not a Republican, the fact that someone like that (ditto for Cruz and Rubio) is running for POTUS is just too awful to watch. And the lies--oh the lies--so many--constantly! How can this be? How can anyone in the US support these asshats?

[mountain grammy]

12. Can't stand to watch them anymore..

happy to have missed it. Totally ridiculous. Who's running that place?

[EV_Ares]

13. I don't watch MSNBC at all, have not for some time. Really don't know what their intentions are for

their various shows or their supposedly news side but so far they are really screwing up. Right now as far as the cable of which I don't put a lot of stock in CNN has the best overall news coverage (in my opinion). Just watched a Bernie Sanders segment & it was a really good in-depth panel discussion of him & his campaign. Can't say how much MSNBC is devoting to Bernie, sounds like not enough for some. Also, CNN has been doing some stuff in Flint about the lead crisis & getting ready for the debate which I think is very much needed & the people seem to appreciate what they are doing.

I don't know if MSNBC is trying to suck away fox watchers but if they are they will lose. It seems they were trying to make Scarborough their big anchor show or something which is wrong-headed.

Maybe they are still trying to find their way or place in the cable world. The one thing they need to realize is that studies have shown except for a few, maybe most of you on the Underground, liberals, progressives, college do not spend their lives listening to talk radio political shows or watch them to the extent the right-wing or republicans do. That is because they are more intelligent or selective in how they get their news & keep up with campaigns. I know I have never listened to the right or left talk radio because that is my entertainment when I am driving. Also, these days, probably get most of my news from online like the Guardian & other newspapers. I also find Dem Underground a good place to catch a lot of stuff, have been signed up for a few years but don't actually comment frequently.

All that said; will be interesting what happens to MSNBC. I thought they were going to bring Keith Olbermann back, haven't heard or seen anything on that for a while. Maybe someone here knows.

[A Little Weird]

14. TV news has become unwatchable

This is a good example of why. I would much rather read the news than listen to these self-important a-holes.

[90-percent]

15. It's Comcast I think

Trying to turn MSNBC into an "agenda-driven-corporate-propaganda" news outlet, following the always financially successful "Fox Lite" formula.

I wonder if Rachel and others still aspire to journalistic integrity or they stay and bite the bullet because of their Contracts?

-90% Jimmy

[WatchWhatISay]

17. They are doing this because they know that Fox is losing viewers

A lot of Trump supporters are angry with Fox, and MSNBC is hiring a lot of Republican consultants to try to appeal to these people. Its like Obama trying to woo Republicans for his first six years in office. It wont work of course.

And they cover literally every press conference Trump calls from start to finish. They do it for the potential of having a freak show so there can be hours of discussion about it. Although I love Rachel Maddow, Chris Hays, and Lawerence O'Donnel, for the station as a whole it is more about building ratings than "leaning forward".

[SharonClark]

18. MSNBC, FOX and CNN created Trump and gave him free airtime

No other candidate gets pre-speech, speech, and post-speech coverage like he does. It must be frustrating for the other candidates.