#MSNBC

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[thedaddycomplex]

So, about that 2024 campaign coverage

I'm a former journalist and I'm fucking pissed at news networks… and myself. You see, 24-hour news networks are, by definition, hypocritical. Why? Because news doesn't happen 24-hours a day. Seriously, watch early CNN broadcasts. It's mostly just reporters repeating the same block of news over and over. So, very early on these networks found they had to fill time. That's because networks are expensive to run and ad dollars are critical.

Hence, CNN's endless breathless reporting of plane crash conspiracies, MSNBC's nightly parade of uncontested right-shaming, and Fox's straight-up admission that the majority of its programs are opinion, not news. (It's the only honest thing the network has ever said.) It's all a game to keep viewers so the ad dollars don't go away. Each network has their own game and it works. And we're kinda willing participants.

I mean, I personally can't watch Fox News because it angers me (not in the way they want). But, I was a loyal MSNBC viewer. I appreciated Rachael Maddow's deep-dives, Chris Hayes' quips, Joy Reid's righteous anger. It made me feel better to hear them dissect Trump's outlandish speeches. I was a member of the choir and they were preaching to me. It wasn't an echo chamber, it was an echo cathedral — huge, loud, and full of uplifting hymns.

The press is called the Fourth Estate because it's supposed to keep power in check and to inform the public. Back in the day, when rich white dudes bought a newspaper company, it was a point of pride, not a point of revenue. It was how they showed off — they helped the public, kept power in check, owned a business that lost money — because all papers did — and were still rich. (Now, rich white dudes buy and/or make spaceships. Wheeee!)

That shifted after the turn of the century when owners insisted papers turn a profit and even more dramatically with the creation of 24-hour news networks. And that's why Fox News just wants to keep its viewers scared and angry — profit, not watchdogging. And if fear is Fox's game, it's abundantly clear that left-leaning networks like MSNBC want to keep viewers happy and optimistic, even in the face of evidence that should frighten them. It keeps us watching and ad money flowing.

Yes, fellow lefties, even "liberal news" networks are guilty of this. It'd be a lie for anyone to claim otherwise. And that's why Trump's victory was such a surprise to us. I realized my cathedral had ignored actual reporting to keep me happy. Because an entire electorate's seismic shift this far to the right can not be done in secret. Real reporting should have seen that coming. But, the 24-hour news networks wanted us to smile, laughing with the anchors. KA-CHING!

And as a former journalist, I should've known to seek news elsewhere. In hindsight, I'd much rather have fact-based reporting than the giggly opinion panels and proselytization that filled MSNBC's campaign coverage. So, I encourage you to add news outlets like AP News and Reuters into your news diet. (And check bias with this chart.)

As for me, I'm leaving the echo cathedral. Bye, MSNBC. It was fun when it really shouldn't have been.

[reading-writing-revolution]

(via The Appeasers - The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)

What a bunch of sad fucks! What a fucking failure!

“Of course, the appeasement, or as scholars of authoritarianism call it, anticipatory obedience, by certain outlets began well in advance of the election. Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, owners of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times’ respectively, refused to allow the papers’ editorial boards to endorse Kamala Harris.The most embarrassing current example of this appeasement was the spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi of MSNBC’s Morning Joe announcing on live television that they had visited Donald at Mar-a-Lago. Brzezinksi said the following:For those asking why we would speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, I would ask back: Why wouldn’t we? It’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but talking with him.Why wouldn’t you? Because, if you have integrity, if you believe your own warnings, you do not ever make common cause with fascists. That’s why.“

Fuck the media. We’ve watched them fail for the past 10 years. Why? $$$

[slightlyvindicatedmst3kfan]

Well hopefully that’s going to put a dent in Elon Musk’s rumored buy out of MSNBC and/or the whole Comcast affiliated SpinCo media venture.

“The Daily Beast’s William Vaillancourt reports, “After the co-anchors of MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ announced Monday, (November 18) that they had met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago the previous Friday as part of what they dubbed a 'new approach’ for covering him, many viewers of the program turned their focus elsewhere, according to Nielsen data. The numbers, obtained by Mediaite, show that after Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski broke the news shortly after 6 a.m., 38 percent of those in the 25-54 demographic had stopped watching by the next hour.””

— ‘Morning Joe’ ratings tumble following Trump meeting at Mar-a-Lago

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[mysharona1987]

[us-cj]

Who are the violent extremists? Listen to Entertainers, Media and Democrat politicians calling for terrorism and political violence.

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[contemplatingoutlander]

Trump continues having rallies in historic all-White "Sundown Towns," where Blacks had to leave by sunset.

Ayman Mohyeldin discusses the implications of Trump's having held rallies in Aug. and Sept. in four "Sundown Towns," where in the past Blacks had to leave/be off the streets by sundown. The rallies were held in Howell, MI, La Crosse, WI, and Johnstown, PA., and Mosinee, WI. Below is the video that Ayman posted on X.

AYMAN: "When your slogan is the nostalgic phrase Make America Great Again, a campaign tour of 'sundown towns' helps us all understand the America that Donald Trump is yearning for."

Trump keeps sending out his racist "dog whistles," while at the same time claiming that it is really "Whites" who are being discriminated against, and campaigning that he will ban the discussion in schools of "divisive" topics, like critical race theory, and instead promote a "patriotic" educational curriculum, like the whitewashed one developed by the 1776 Project in his last administration.

BlackPast: Sundown Towns:

Sundown Towns are all-white communities, neighborhoods, or counties that exclude Blacks and other minorities through the use of discriminatory laws, harassment, and threats or use of violence. The name derives from the posted and verbal warnings issued to Blacks that although they might be allowed to work or travel in a community during the daytime, they must leave by sundown. Although the term most often refers to the forced exclusion of Blacks, the history of sundown towns also includes prohibitions against Jews, Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other minority groups. Although it is difficult to make an accurate count, historians estimate there were up to 10,000 sundown towns in the United States between 1890 and 1960, mostly in the Mid-West and West.

The Green-Book

The rise of sundown towns made it difficult and dangerous for Blacks to travel long distances by car. In 1930, for instance, 44 of the 89 counties along the famed Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles featured no motels or restaurants and prohibited Blacks from entering after dark. In response, Victor H. Green, a postal worker from Harlem, compiled the Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide to accommodations that served Black travelers. The guide was published from 1936 to 1966, and at its height of popularity was used by two million people.

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[veryimportantpeopleshow]

Unfortunately for MSNBC, Zonton has never been more serious...

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Look how the complicit media first tried to report on what everyone there and watching at home recognized as gunshots and an attempted assassination within three seconds of the gunshots ringing out:

"Trump is startled by loud noises"; "Trump falls over":

Then, as the obvious truth spread all over social media, they updated their headlines to refer to it as simply an "incident":

where there were "popping sounds":

Anything but report the facts if they don't help their biased narrative and make their "side" look good.

The mainstream media whipped up the hysteria and murderous hate that led to this violence by lying and twisting the truth in this exact same way, every day for eight years. They are complicit in the treasonous and anti-democratic corruption taking place behind the scenes and deserve to be held as much accountable as the Democrats who called for violence and the deep state employees who let it happen.

[truth4ourfreedom]

TUCKER CARLSON 'S TAKE ON THE REMAINING LIFESPAN OF THE LEGACY LEFT MEDIA.

Tucker Carlson: “The Collapse of the Legacy Media Will Be One of the HAPPIEST Days of My Life”

“Most of them know exactly what they're doing, and they deserve to be PUNISHED for it through unemployment.”

“They're done.”

Is legacy media the place to go for breaking news? No, social media does it better.

How about analysis or entertainment? “Well, they're not entertaining. They're preachy and screechy and just absolutely awful,” says Tucker. “And their analysis is stale.”

“I just couldn't have more contempt [for legacy media]. And it's the contempt bred from familiarity. It's not like I'm guessing at this. I spent my life with these people … and I just despise them. I have no respect at all.”

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Republican leadership in Florida for banning books like “The Life of Rosa Parks” and condemns legislation that aims to stop the spread of “woke” agendas.

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