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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm giving up on msnbc: It's all trump video, all the time. NO more.
Listening to every endless detail and lie and drivel isn't good for me.
elleng
(130,905 posts)I stopped watching then (until later.)
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)but Rachel And Lawrence present their commentary/reporting very good. Rachel is like a teacher, I like when she presents everything. Lawrence is of cool demeanor. I like listening to him and his panels.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I mean, I like his current show (not as much as Rachel...), but I thought he did a great job on his previous show. He had a good talent of sparking a good conversation amongst his guests, letting them discuss the topic with each other, interjecting where necessary, or where he could add to the conversation without making it all about himself. It really was an excellent example on how to run those types of shows. This talent isn't really used to its full effect in his current show.
womanofthehills
(8,706 posts)So I can listen anytime. Love those two!!
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)I can live without the other ones.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)Chris Hayes has a weekly program called Why is this Happening. You might want to check it out.
triron
(22,003 posts)PatSeg
(47,430 posts)There's a lot of good talent on MSNBC. I pick and choose who I want to listen to.
Rhiannon12866
(205,349 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,349 posts)And it's nice to have him on twice on weekends now - at a more accessible hour (for me, anyway...)
dem4decades
(11,293 posts)Rocky888
(297 posts)Cant piss off donald. He may tweet mean things about me and sick his attack dogs on me. NBC nightly news is the worst on the both sidism.
Also, not one member of gop should be referred to as senator, speaker, chairman, mr. or mrs.
They should ONLY be referred to by first name only. Their disrespect for democrats should not go without payback.
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)And AM on the weekend for Joy Reid!
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)Hayes comes on. I'm sick of listening and looking at trump, he sickens me and raises my BP. Not good.
lilactime
(657 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)they detest him now, IMO. They are almost viterapative about him. I think they were making up for their past sins of being so passive and almost praising him in the last prez. campaign...
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)and Trump refused. So they turned on him.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Ratings-wise at least.
quickesst
(6,280 posts)The OP leaves the impression that the Trump coverage is a positive for him. That's not the case. 90% of the Trump coverage is anti Trump, and as long as they put it out there, and present it for what it is, the more people will become aware of this charlatan who sits in the White House. One thing I have noticed here on Democratic Underground is that when a news show host, Scarborough Matthews Etc, spend the greatest majority of their time telling the truth about the corruption of trump, they're okay. But let one of them say one tiny thing that may be wildly misconstrued as pro-trump , and all of a sudden they are trumpsters, shills for the GOP, we knew they were from trumpers all along blah blah blah, and the 99% anti Trump rhetoric is just forgotten until the next time. They're not perfect, and they do and say some dumbass things, but I also think they deserve a fairer shake than they get here on many occasions.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)I no longer care if they're making a case against him.
I choose not to allow the gangster into my house for any reason, whatsoever.
quickesst
(6,280 posts)....but that's the impression I took away from your post even if it is the wrong impression. Clarity. As far as not having him in your house, that's completely up to you. I choose to let them in my own house simply for the satisfaction of knowing that millions of other people are hearing the truth about the criminal in White House. I really don't care what they said before. There's nothing I or anyone can do about that. I do care about what they're saying now as it is at least a sincere effort to right the wrong of their past actions. In actuality, some of them, like Steve Schmidt, are better spokespersons against Trump's Republican Party and for the Democratic Party than many Democrats are. I'll take it.
Most of it is anti trump but some is questionable. It depends who you are watching. I just turn the sound off or change the channel if dump is on. He is too revolting to have in large doses.
quickesst
(6,280 posts).... They still say and do some dumb things, but you are right. That's what the channel changer and the mute button is for.
Raine
(30,540 posts)I quit watching them awhile back, they never cover anthing else and there's plenty of important news all over that isn being covered at all.
What is Miller and Mulvaney doing, Pompeo too , oh Pompeo took his wife to the Middle East.
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Now i watch MSNBC first 2 hours of the morning. Right after Stephanie Ruhle i quit watching!!
Zorro
(15,740 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)They are good but i think they were Better. Seems like they interview RETHUGS all the time
JudyM
(29,248 posts)erronis
(15,257 posts)Please substitute something like '@sshole' or 'pResident'. If his face/ass appears I'll turn off my T.V..
It's totally possible to discuss the events of the last 24 hours or last week without ever giving the devil his real name.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)the media didn't say one thing about tRump because he crows how the media is making money because they report on him and also during all this there is no solution to the shutdown and the people's work is not being done or is it?? the House put 6 bills together to pass. Now if McConnell does not pass any of these then we will all know how deep he is into taking Democracy down for Putin.
janx
(24,128 posts)I access headlines online. I cannot stand the commercials for old people (even though I'm over 60) and I cannot deal with the marketing of fear or the increasingly tabloid nature of the cable stations.
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)If you happened to read Yale holocaust historian Timothy Snyder's essential books on our plight, you would know that the first purpose of the autocrat is to wear down good people; to exhaust them. Easy to see how that is helpful to a tyrant with evil intent.
Exhaust the good people.
They look away.
The tyrant then has free reign to act.
My recommendation for the least anguish and the best information in one hour: Brian Williams' "The Eleventh Hour" on MSNBC. It is calm, smart, thorough, and he brings the top print journalists to us with their news of the day regarding this presidency. No "panels" and no "whataboutism". No Trumpers. Just a truthful report.
Baltimike
(4,143 posts)emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)Word to the wise, dont watch daytime.
Hayes, Joy Reid, Ari, Maddox, Lawrence, and even Matthews are anti Trump. Nicolle Wallace as well, she is an anti-Trump Republican
Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)outside the genocide, the mindless brutality and abuse of the Native Americans, in order to steal their homeland, and the slavery, stealing human beings from their lives, and placing them in a living hell for every day of their lives, among strangers, if they managed to survive crossing the Atlantic.
Of course, there was the brutal war against organized labor by industrialists who wanted free reign to use human beings like tissue paper, and so many other hellish actions launched against US citizens, too, but beyond that, THIS is the biggest shrieking hell imaginable.
There is no time whatsoever for more "fun" diversions until this filth is over.
If there is anything at all to be learned each hour of each day, I am praying someone is going to find out about it, and report it, and that somehow, someway, a path will open to allow intelligent beings to out the evil doers, and cleanse the system which has been growing filthier decade by decade until things could actually get into this shape at all.
However poorly delivered the stories sometimes are, at least people are trying to get the news to the people while there is still the chance it can be told at all, considering how much has worked against truth-telling, considering how the right-wing has been raging against the "liberal" media for years, and powerful interests have been buying up and consolidating the news media until they have almost complete control of it all, anyway.
I don't want to be entertained these days and nights, I need to hear the moment any possible break in the storm looms into view, bringing the possibility something can be done against these diseased, twisted monsters. Nothing matters as much as getting rid of them, outside ending disease, and poverty, and clearly global warming, all of which are wildly influenced by what the hell is in charge of our government.