MSNBC vs CNN

[Pryderi]

Which network is better for election coverage?

[last1standing]

1. Olbermann or Beck. Hmmmm......

Easy choice, really.

[Pryderi]

3. True, but CNN has better data maps. :P

[gcomeau]

5. Which would be great...

...if John King would stop making love to the damn things all night long every time there's a vote. It's like the man has OCD or something, he just can't stop fondling that damn touchscreen.

[billyoc]

58. Oh, you KNOW he's got one of those at home, and that AIN'T a vote he's fondling...

:rofl:

[hokies4ever]

40. That is one of their advantages

I remember during the Potomac Primaries this was most evident. FOX News had Karl Rove and Brit Humes sitting at a desk with Karl Rove's hand-drawn map of Virginia. Meanwhile John King was pulling up the Google Earth map and zooming in on different landmarks. MSNBC kind of joined the game a little bit late, but are doing fairly well with Chuck Todd's maps now.

[mohc]

4. I've never seen Beck on CNN's election coverage team

For me this poll is effectively Blitzer vs Matthews, and I can not stand Matthews.

[last1standing]

10. I take the stations as a whole. To me you can't separate Beck from CNN.

Not even for election coverage. To tolerate Beck for the sake of a marginally better elections presenter (and that's debatable) is to lift up an organization that supports hatespeech.

[mohc]

Ok, but that was not the question in the poll

If the question was, which network is better, there would be an argument there. The question was simply which had better election coverage. I took a fairly narrow interpretation of that question and assumed it meant the actual coverage teams. Kind of like comparing CBS and ESPN in football coverage, I prefer ESPN as a network, but CBS has better play-by-play coverage than does ESPN.

[last1standing]

22. I've given my opinion. Take it for what little it's worth.

n/t

[mohc]

25. Sorry if you felt I was attacking your opinion.

I certainly did not intend to do so. Not only to I find Beck vile and unwatchable, but most of CNN's primetime lineup is unwatchable to me (Lou Dobbs and Larry King for example). And while I prefer CNN's specials (Amanpour etc) to the "Dateline" specials that dominate MSNBC, neither the specials or the primetime shows came into my consideration of this poll. I guess what I am saying is not that I disagree with your opinions of MSNBC or CNN, just that I read the question differently and was answering the question as I saw it. Again, sorry if you were offended.

[featherman]

2. MSNBC versus McCNN = no contest

[vaberella]

6. I like MSNBC, I get a laugh out of Chris Matthews

Although I adore Olbermann. The only problem is I take issue with Joe Scarborough...

[SeaLyons]

7. Obviously Obama supporters support MSNBC...

they are totally in the tank for Obama...I can't wait for the documentaries and movies that will be made about it. Olbermann will definitely be a star.

[jenmito]

38. MSNBC was the most pro-Hillary cable network, with 72% positive stories compared to 70%

positive stories for Obama.

[SeaLyons]

45. Really??? Thanks for sharing that humor....

[jenmito]

47. REALLY. If you find the facts humorous, laugh on!

:hi:

[SeaLyons]

48. I'm still laughing....

no facts in your post. I can't think of anyone that would believe MSNBC had ANY positive remarks or stories on Clinton over this primary.

[jenmito]

50. I guess you missed these shows:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24247198/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21020060/

[SeaLyons]

52. you've got to be effing kidding me.....

[jenmito]

54. Not at all. Olbermann was a BIG Clinton fan right up until she started playing the

fear/terror card. And the links I gave you prove it. Two softball interviews to BOTH Clintons, disproving your comment: "I can't think of anyone that would believe MSNBC had ANY positive remarks or stories on Clinton over this primary."

[Araxen]

55. Actually I prefer CNN

Don't go for speaking all of us. I can't stand to watch that racist Pat Pukeanan :puke: on my TV.

[bunnies]

8. msnbc. No contest. nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Chuck Todd is the most accurate out of all of them

He displays hardly any bias and has been 96% accurate on his calls

[Adelante]

11. I only get CNN

I prefer David Gergen's analysis to anyone's and I like Jeffrey Toobin, too. Even if I don't agree with them every minute, I know they're at least thinking.

[peaches2003]

12. Rachel Maddow makes MSNBC the best

if (and it's a big if) you can put up with Norah O'Donnell's cackling.

[Pryderi]

20. I wish MSNBC could get Donna Brazile away from CNN

[FSogol]

13. I'm glad the poll wasn't: Which network loves to report on prisons. n/t

[ccharles000]

14. CNN.

Anderson Cooper is one hot man!

[cboy4]

19. Groan.

Excellent job making gay people look shallow ccharles000.

:banghead:

[ccharles000]

21. I don't think it is shallow to point out the truth.

That is 100 percent hotness!

[cboy4]

26. Yea, it is shallow and it furthers the stereotype that

being gay is all about sex.

You can obviously do what you want, but your 8th grade-like attitude makes it more difficult to convince straight America that gay is not all about screwing.

That perception interferes with the advancement of gay human rights.

[ccharles000]

31. OMG.

Fine I will no longer think AC is hot. I will wear nothing but grey and black I would not want heteros to be upset because they see a queer in pink. I can just talk about me I do not represent our community and I do not believe our community is all about sex. We can still say someone is hot. Next time you read a post by a straight man talking about how hot some woman is tell him he is making the hetero community look like it is all about sex.

Hugs and kisses.

[cboy4]

34. :eyes: -- There's nothing wrong with thinking "AC is hot."

Did you read your original post?

You insinuated that you chose CNN entirely because you think Cooper is hot.

And if that's not the only reason, you should have said, "plus Anderson Cooper is hot", so people don't think that was the only shallow reason.

You may think it's hilarious ccharles, but I bust my ass working, along with lots of other people, to help make sure the LGBT population will some day enjoy equal human rights.

And I don't appreciate anyone getting in our way. Gay or straight.

[ccharles000]

37. ...

What if I did pick CNN because of AC and the way he looks. I don't see any difference in the major news stations and I am not getting in the way of GLBT rights. I am a little shallow and I am gay so there is at least one gay person who is shallow. It does not matter what straight people think of me or my community if they don't like us because we are gay than they can go fuck themselves.

[cboy4]

41. Yea, tell them to go fuck themselves as they attempt

to decide whether or not to approve constitutional amendments banning marriage, or overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.

That's okay ccharles...I'll fight for your rights while you sleep all day on the couch.

But then again, perhaps the shallowness you admit to is a sign you don't give a shit whether much of society throughout the world considers you a second class citizen.

Unreal.

[ccharles000]

42. I am ending this now...

we should agree to disagree.


PS.I still think CNN is better because AC is hot.:hug:

[newmajority]

15. Definitely MSNBC

Keith & Rachel more than make up for Tweety and Timmywhore.

[cboy4]

16. MSNBC is definitely heavily slanted toward Obama.

But I think they do the best job covering politics/the election as a whole with all of the various shows.

[asjr]

17. Neither--they are both bought and paid for.

[Upton]

18. MSNBC

CNN is so far in the tank for Clinton, they've become difficult to watch. I do like some of the analysts they have there, but Wolf Blitzer drives me up a wall.

[Rockholm]

23. Is CNN still on the air?

I haven't watched CNN in about a year.

[City Lights]

24. I don't care for either.

CNN has some unsavory characters (Bill Bennett for one), but MSNBC has the insufferable Pat Buchanan. Keith Olbermann isn't even enough to get me to watch MSNBC if Buchanan is on. There is simply no excuse for giving that racist, sexist, bigoted sack of shit a microphone.

[Phoonzang]

27. MSNBC needs to steal that touchscreen map

that CNN has. That thing is really neat and gives a nice visual representation of the contests.

[RL3AO]

28. Chuck Todd + CNNs touch screen map would be as good as it gets.

[Aloha Spirit]

51. Chuck Todd said a while ago they'd be rolling out something fancy for the General Election. yay!

Seriously, I know I'm a geek, but what could one possibly add to this equation to make this more geeky?
Political campaigns + statistical analysis + interactive technology + goatees + ...?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. BBC for me.

[high density]

30. MSNBC

They are not the perfect network, but their organization does better than CNN's.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

32. I like CNN's better.

It has nothing to do with how they cover a certain candidate, I just like it better.

[backscatter712]

33. MSNBC sucks less!

Granted, MSNBC does have its bright spots, like Olbermann, but it also has those endless damned prison shows and To Catch A Predator and such, and they constantly have Pat Buchanan spewing garbage on the air. They're not even close to an ideal news source.

That said, they're better than the Conservative News Network.

[nsd]

35. MSNBC definitely.

CNN is an embarrassment.

[TexasObserver]

36. CNN doesn't have election coverage. They have election shilling.

The Clinton News Network is embarrassingly devoted to pushing Hillary. Good Lord, they give her free TV time when she can't afford any.

[harun]

53. I caught a bit of Dobb's last night, made me about ready to

lose it. Pandering for MI and FL by saying it was undemocratic. Idiot is suppose to be a journalist and bring things up like how the hell are we suppose to keep states from breaking the rules with no penalty? Irresponsible and one of the major reasons I will not watch CNN.

[Buzz Clik]

39. CNN has cool toys.

[Doctor_J]

43. Other

Death from bone cancer with no morphine

[invictus]

44. MSNBC because of Olbermann, otherwise it doesn't matter. n/t

[polichick]

46. msnbc has Keith Olbermann, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow & Eugene Robinson

[Hepburn]

49. Primarily I watch MSNBC until the prison stuff comes on...

...and then I switch to CNN to see what those assholes are saying.

[Dawgs]

56. MSNBC!!!! I'm boycotting CNN until they get rid of Glenn Beck.

F U C N N ! !

[scheming daemons]

57. You didn't give an option of "Fox" for the Hillary fans that are still here....