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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 09:57 PM
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MSNBC needs to get their shit together!
Over the weekend there were incredible events being played out in Iran. However, MSNBC thinks that we need to learn more and more details about our penal system or some part of law enforcement. Iran should have received major coverage.

Now Michael Jackson dies, and I wonder if they would break in to tell us that North Korea had fired a missle. We hear ad nauseum about his life, talent, and notoriety. We get coverage hour after hour in excruciating detail.

Is MSNBC going to be a serious player in the news or a subsidiary of TMZ and the prison system?

Play them off Keyboard Cat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ :rant:
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 09:58 PM
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1. Heh heh, you said "penal"
heh heh
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 09:59 PM
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2. What talent? Lots of people can dance.
Edited on Thu Jun-25-09 09:59 PM by madeline_con
I'm sick of him and he's probably still warm! :puke:
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:02 PM
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3. not to diss MJ but Ginger Rogers danced BACKWARDS thru many movies :-) nt
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:38 PM
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8. Geez. n/t
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The River Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:23 PM
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4. They Could Capture All The Viewers
from other networks who didn't want
non-stop MJ coverage. Ya know, real news?
Of course they would get complaints
that they didn't cover him enough.
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:28 PM
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5. North Korea missile test is obviously set for the 4th of July
They are going to help us celebrate.

Don
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Uzybone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:29 PM
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6. MSNBC has been minor leagues since inception
I seriously doubt they are gonna step it up now.
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:30 PM
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7. Whatever helps GE recover from its downturn...unfortunately! n/t
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:40 PM
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9. I don't know...
I'm pretty aware of what's going on in Iran and I don't even watch television
Some things just have a way of seeping in.
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:43 PM
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10. Will have to confess turning to Shep Smith for his broadcast today...
didn't turn off Faux News until Geraldo came on. For some reason I prefer Smith's no-nonsense approach when it's a serious matter (such as during the Holocaust museum shooting). If anyone else comes on then it will be turned to CNN. MSNBC is just small-time when it comes to live news events.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:24 PM
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16. I watch Shep daily.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:45 PM
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11. Is Jackson still dead?
Sorry, don't mean to make light of his death, it's just that MSNBC has gone waaaay overboard on their coverage.
How many ways can they tell us he died?
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NJGeek Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:46 PM
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12. MSNBC is horrible
It's part Microsoft owned.
Hardball and Keith. Maddow is OK too. Rest of it is pablum.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:48 PM
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14. Even so, Keith is still doing an excellent job as anchor-of-record.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 10:47 PM
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13. What is the goal of the channel? If their goal is not exactly to inform
as much as I usually think KO and RM are good, they are doing just fine

Just finished watching Control Room... and as much as it raises questions about the coverage of Al Jazeera, also raises a question on our media, and all media.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:21 PM
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15. I don't need no steenking MSNBC
I can learn more about what is going on in the world in 1/2 hour on DU than I could by watching cable "news" all frickin day.
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