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Nobody likes watching stuff in the mushy middle. Rightwing wants Fox news, Leftwing wants MSNBC. Always better to specialize.
by jpcx01 17y ago
Nobody likes watching stuff in the mushy middle. Rightwing wants Fox news, Leftwing wants MSNBC. Always better to specialize.
- David 17y agoNot that I disagree with your point, but "[...] CNN ranks 21st, while MSNBC lags even further behind at 25th." Doesn't sound like specialization is working well for MSNBC, to me.
- gnosis 17y ago"Leftwing wants MSNBC" Are you kidding? MSNBC is even more right wing than CNN. PBS is about it, as far as mainstream TV news goes. And even they are pretty much in the center, rather than on the left. For some good left-wing media try Democracy Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and FAIR's Counterspin. Some college radio stations, WBAI in NYC, and Pacifica Radio afilliates are also good. My problem with CNN and MSNBC is that both of them tried to follow Fox to the right once Fox became popular. A losing strategy if they were after Fox's right-wing audience, since they were clearly not as committed as Fox was to being further to the right than any other station on TV. They should have moved left instead, and provided a real alternative.
- btipling 17y agoYeah Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are right wing. O_o
- jbooth 17y agoTwo commentators do not weigh the same as an entire multi-thousand employee network.
- btipling 17y agoIt's two hours of liberal opinion news during primetime. They are the flagship opinion shows on msnbc. But yea, they are just two people out of thousands that work at msnbc.
- jbooth 17y ago2 hours during primetime is still less than 24 hours, all the time. Hell, Fox News employs a convicted traitor (Ollie North) just becasue liberals don't like him.
- astrec 17y agoI guess you're being voted down because: a) overt politics doesn't mix well with HN, and b) left/right is a matter of perspective. As an observer from a country where the most conservative Prime Minister since federation was still some way to the left of Obama, I'd characterise both MSNBC and CNN as occupying the centre left of the right. In contrast, my Republican father in law considers them pinko-commie bastards. Who is right?
- RareApparel 17y agoThe problem you have with the flow of CNN and MSNBC towards Fox is the same problem I have with televised news of all sorts. TV as a medium does not do a good job of informing people much of anything outside of what it takes to keep them glued to the screen: flying infographics, plenty of hyperbole and lowbrow opinion.