This article, from David Badash at NCRM, has some good insights on the state of the press these days:
So, why would MSNBC cancel its second highest-rated show?
When one considers the people the network has been hiring or is negotiating with -- Greta Van Susteren, Hugh Hewitt, Megyn Kelly -- well, I think we can see a trend.
Read the whole thing. It's not that long, but it's kind of scary. And not in a good way.
MSNBC is not a "liberal" news network. It is a for-profit vehicle of global telecommunications giant Comcast. Comcast is not in the news business, it is the "you" business. MSNBC, especially NBC News and MSNBC chairman Andy Lack, has made clear the network is in business to sell its viewers to advertisers. Period. What programs it produces and what journalists it employs are merely a means to a desired end: profit. And squeezing out liberals in order to attract more conservatives is MSNBC's game plan.
Case in point: Network executives, it appears, are preparing to cancel "The Last Word," hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell, who has been on the network since MSNBC's inception. O'Donnell's show is the network's second-highest rated show, after "The Rachel Maddow Show."
So, why would MSNBC cancel its second highest-rated show?
According to a report by Yashar Ali at HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post), part of the reason may be that Donald Trump has been trying to get MSNBC to cancel O'Donnell for years.
When one considers the people the network has been hiring or is negotiating with -- Greta Van Susteren, Hugh Hewitt, Megyn Kelly -- well, I think we can see a trend.
Read the whole thing. It's not that long, but it's kind of scary. And not in a good way.
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