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jenk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:26 PM
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Sludge- LAYOFFS HIT MSNBC
we know Buchanan and Press are gone, Scarborough's ratings are bottom of the barrel, let's hope he goes too.

http://www.drudgereport.com/mattms.htm


XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN DEC 07, 2003 19:51:03 ET XXXXX

LAYOFFS HIT MSNBC

Freelancers and per-diems are receiving early Christmas presents at all-news cable channel MSNBC -- after layoff slips are quietly passed around the network's offices!

"People are in shock over it," said one fired peacock.

Cut from payroll in recent weeks have been producers, line producers, tape producers, associate producers, segment producers and writers.
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:30 PM
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1. The Bush economy bites the hand that feeds it
Poetic justice.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:38 PM
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7. they are lining up the GOP propaganda 24x7 team....watch this.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 01:34 AM
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21. Not really, neither was spinning for Dubya.
Buchannan was one of the few who never caved in about Bush's war. He thought it was a bad idea before it started and a bad Idea after it started.
He wasn't towing the neo-con line. They had to get rid of him. He was setting a bad example for other Republicans. He had his own opinion.
Oh, and Press was the Liberal.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 04:03 AM
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23. These layoffs have nothing to do with Buchanan & Press...
...being let go. These are additional people they're talking about.
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SemperEadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 05:33 PM
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33. they are trying to bring their eps in over estimation
Edited on Mon Dec-08-03 05:34 PM by SemperEadem
by the end of the quarter on 12/31, so to do that, they dump their expendable employees, work the staff silly and at the beginning of the new year, they'll hire everyone back who will be enticed to come back.

That is freelance life in broad/cable casting.
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 05:48 PM
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35. I loved Buchanan and Press
I disagreed with Buchanan on a lot of issues, but we had the same views on the Iraq war and he did seem to call a spade a spade. I'm sure that's exactly why they god rid of him.

Anybody know just how bad Scarboner's ratings are? I hate that f*cker.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:33 PM
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2. What about Joe Scarborough?
He should be on that list...
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Jester_11218 Donating Member (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:36 PM
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4. Abrahams is replacing B&P
They are moving Abrahams to replace Buchanan and Press. A new show will be readin next year.

I had this on my news page days ago:-)

http://tvnewslies.org - I scoop Drudge regularly!
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Foswia Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 01:18 AM
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20. Amm, but Drudge...
Amm, but Drudge is a lot easier to read. Your site needs some major UI changes, i couldn't find news to confirm what you are saying, i was old sent to links to buy stuff from buy.com
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Jester_11218 Donating Member (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 10:45 AM
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27. Hmmm
The links are updated every day!

I am surprised. Let me know which link was bad.
Also,
If you can suggest some ways to make the page easier let me know.
Thanks,
Jesse
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Jester_11218 Donating Member (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 10:48 AM
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28. About the links...
Some of those links are for one day sales. They become active on the correct date. I'll put a note there.

I outline that on the main special deals page.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 01:43 AM
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22. Now Abrahams is on three times a night.
If reruns don't discourage viewers, I don't know what does.

If they wanted to improve their ratings, they should say, "You call us the 'Liberal Press', we'll show you what 'Liberal Press' really means. Then they just spice up the news with editorializing, deroggotory comments about the president and his staff and feature a few off-beat personalities like Al Franken and Bill Maher. That will show them what a "Liberal Press" really is.
Right now, there is no counter balance to Faux. To some, anything that isn't Fox, must be liberal.
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:37 PM
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5. Send Scarborough packing
Edited on Sun Dec-07-03 08:38 PM by candy331
a news reporter wanna be as soon as possible. Maybe they will report the good news on the economy now.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:48 PM
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9. Sweetie, pay attention.
If Americans aren't working, it doesn't matter how many CEOs get rich. This economy is in meltdown, not recovery.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 11:08 AM
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31. As a Bushevik muderer, Scarborogh will ALWAYS have a job
One wonders what poor Ms. Klausutis found that she ahd to be killed. Perhaps a box of Gore ballots or the IBM Punch-o-Matic they used to invalidate no many votes, laden with chads?

Or perhaps it was just a crime of passion.

Either way, Murderin' Joe is safe.
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:35 PM
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3. but MSNBC just said it was a jobFULL recovery
this is the first time i have found news of layoffs to be amusing. welcome to the world, media whores.

welcome.
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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:49 PM
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10. It was Sean Hannity of Fox New who said "JobFULL Recovery." (nt)
nt
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:56 PM
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11. burger-flippin' jobs tho. not peacockin'.
n/m
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Timefortruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 09:50 PM
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14. There isn't much difference between Hannity and MSRNC.
In fact MS is more like an annex than a competitor.
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 11:56 PM
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19. you're right, Eric, I was somewhat joking
it was Hannity, and MSNBC/CNBC/GE are about the same.

:hi:
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whathappened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:37 PM
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6. oh boy
what cable is next to hit the layoff list , maybe all there rateing are going down hill from all the lie's that have been told , maybe people are wakeing up and tired of hearing the sameo crap every hour from different people
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:59 PM
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13. Actually, I just read within the last week that cable news ratings have
gone UP!!!! Probably from the Michael Jackson stuff, perhaps??

I hope?? I certainly don't want more people to be watching FAUX...
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loudnclear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:47 PM
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8. This hit the wrong people I fear.
Should have been the whore pundits!
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 08:58 PM
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12. They don't need writers....they get all their material from Rove's
office....
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 10:50 AM
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29. That's exacty what I thought when I read this too
Who needs all those people when you are just going to read whatever the White House faxes you over?
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 10:13 PM
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15. How could any network get rid of Donahue and keep Scarborough?
Not any that I would watch. I hope all these whore networks for junior go under.
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hadrons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 10:20 PM
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16. you think the pink slips read "Thanks for shilling for Bush .. SUCKERS!!!"
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janx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 10:23 PM
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17. Hey, what did they expect after they tried their best to
imitate Faux?

It clearly backfired on them, but we could have told them it would.
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-07-03 11:47 PM
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18. There is a massive vacuum on the left wing of coverage.
They're stupid if they don't use this as an opportunity to fill it.

Try on the right wing, and you just compete with Fox. That's not good business.

There are plenty of lefties out there to pander to. They have money. Make USE of us! LOL
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Gore1FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 04:04 AM
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24. The bigger vaccuum
is the lack of TRUTH coverage.

I don;t want a left wing news source any more than I want a right-wing news source. I simply want uneditorialized news.
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Sweetpea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 05:31 AM
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25. Their copying of the Fox news format didn't work for them
Let's hope this means more diverse programming.
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dusty64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 07:45 AM
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26. I sure won't shed a tear
when that POS network goes under and actually hope it does. On many levels I find msrnc even more offensive than fux.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 10:56 AM
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30. What a wonderful Chrismas present for all
if they canned Scarborough. I detest his show. It is so biased that it reeks of right wing whores. Get him off...
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thebaghwan Donating Member (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 07:20 PM
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36. This is only the beginning! I know many people who are being laidoff now.
n/t
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farmbo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 11:23 AM
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32. Well, DUH?! They run Joe Scarborough in primetime...
...and can't figure out why NOBODY'S WATCHING!

Stupidity is its own reward.
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drscm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-08-03 05:36 PM
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34. Maybe they can work for the WSJ in this improving economy... nt
nt
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