Thread: REPORT: SINKING MSNBC PREPARES TO MOVE RIGHT

REPORT: SINKING MSNBC PREPARES TO MOVE RIGHT


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by JOHN NOLTE19 Mar 2015

Just as it is at the ballot box here in America and Israel, leftism undisguised is dying in cable news. According to a Politico report, MSNBC is sinking fast and prepared to throw everyone overboard not named Joe Scarborough and Rachel Maddow. The new apparent plan is to move the failing cable news channel to the political right, and in some cases not even stopping at the center. It looks as though MSNBC is looking for a conservative host.

Year-to-date, MSNBC’s daytime viewership is down 21 percent overall and 41 percent in the coveted 25-to-54 year-old demographic, putting it in fourth place behind Fox News, CNN and CNN’s sister network HLN. Its prime-time ratings are down 24 percent and 42 percent, respectively. In both daytime and prime time, MSNBC is bringing in its smallest share of the demo since 2005, the year before Keith Olbermann’s scorched-earth admonitions of the Bush administration ushered in the current era of Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton. …

Dayside will go through its own changes. And in a strange twist of fate, the model show for the liberal network’s future may be the one hosted by a conservative.

Rachel Maddow disputes everything. She told the left-wing Politico that “there are no plans to move either Rev. Sharpton’s or Chris Hayes’ shows.”

Rumors of cancellation around Hayes began almost immediately after his show moved to weekday primetime.

The problem with MSNBC is that it is boring. There is no conflict. Federal government-worshipping Liberals sit around all day and agree with one another. That’s it. That’s MSNBC.

MSNBC can pretend Andrea Mitchell, Thomas Roberts, and Jose Diaz-Balart represent “news,” but all are outspoken leftists who host shows dedicated to confirming their bias that America should have no borders, Israel is the source of all evil in the Middle East, and the answer to every problem is a more powerful central government.

Politico doesn’t say this, obviously, but what happened here is that MSNBC got snookered by CNN, who stole almost all of MSNBC’s left-wing viewers. CNN moved to the far-left but did so while pretending to remain unbiased. CNN now offers unceasing leftism as news while MSNBC hosts sit around happy talking The State.

CNN had better hope MSNBC doesn’t shut down. The only thing keeping CNN from being a ratings laughingstock is how abysmal things are at MSNBC.

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CNN MISSES: ‘HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT’ NARRATIVE SUPPRESSED THE TRUTH

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by JOHN SEXTON21 Mar 2015249

CNN‘s Don Lemon hosted a panel of guests Thursday night to discuss the truth behind the “Hands up, don’t shoot” mantra adopted by Black Lives Matter protesters. Despite a lively discussion, CNN still does not seem to fully grasp the role it’s own misleading coverage played in suppressing the truth.

Lemon introduced the topic by running a segment narrated by CNN media reporter Brian Stelter. Stelter briefly chronicled the spread of the saying, starting with supposed eyewitnesses in Ferguson and followed by its symbolic adoption by CNN‘s own commentators, as well as football players and pop stars. The lead-in segment ended with Stelter pointing to the DOJ report which concluded “Hands up, don’t shoot” was not supported by the most accurate eyewitness accounts.

The panelists brought on to discuss the topic included Stelter, NY Times opinion writer Charles Blow, Kevin Jackson of The Black Sphere, Monifa Bandele of Communities United for Police Reform, and Criminology Professor David Klinger. Stelter, Jackson. and Klinger all agreed the facts were clear, i.e. “Hands up, don’t shoot” didn’t happen. Charles Blow tried to soften the impact a bit by suggesting the other DOJ report on police abuse of civil rights in Ferguson was the context for the report on the shooting. Nevertheless, Blow cited Malcolm X saying, “I am for truth no matter who tells it.” The implication, in context, was that the DOJ report on the Brown shooting had revealed a truth that people needed to accept.

Monifa Bandele was the only panelist who seemed prepared to deny the report’s conclusions, though even she began by claiming the mantra was about conveying a largertruth. “‘Hands up’ is the ultimate truth, and the reason why ‘hands up’ has gone viral across the country is because it’s a posture known to black people,” Bandele said. When pressed on the physical evidence in the report, Bandele suggested only a criminal trial could subject the evidence to sufficient scrutiny to determine the truth (another claim at odds with the contents of the DOJ report).

CNN made some serious mistakes on its Ferguson coverage, just as it did on its coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. To the network’s credit, last night’s panel showed some genuine willingness to correct the record and own up to some of its own mistakes. But hindsight, as they say, is 20/20.

It’s less clear that CNN is any less likely to make the same mistakes the next time a racially charged shooting takes place somewhere in America. If there is any hope of CNN doing better next time, it comes from something Brian Stelter said midway through the discussion:

eyewitnesses that didn’t speak to the press, the ones that were intimidated. According to the DOJ, witnesses that didn’t want to come forward, those are the voices we didn’t hear in the news coverage. And that’s a lesson for journalists, that we weren’t hearing every witness’ point of view.

This is an important point but Stelter doesn’t go nearly far enough with it. His statement makes the process of getting accurate information sound passive, as if the eyewitnesses who did and did not come forward did so independent of any outside concern or pressure. But the DOJ report makes clear there was an underlying connection between witness intimidation and bad reporting. Witnesses were already afraid to contradict those who were pushing “Hands up, don’t shoot,” but the media, CNN included, raised the stakes by amplifying that narrative across the airwaves. In other words, CNN‘s own flawed reporting exacerbated the problem and played a role in suppressing the truth.

That’s a lesson Don Lemon himself seems to have missed. Last August, when he was in Ferguson, he told viewers that there were rumors that there were many more witnesses who had not come forward because they were “afraid to speak out now.” But the interview Lemon ran with a Ferguson resident made clear he wasn’t talking about witnesses who feared spoiling the narrative being pushed by residents and CNN; he meant witnesses whofeared the police. The DOJ report made clear that was not the fear that prevented reliable witnesses from coming forward.

The genuine fear experienced by witnesses is an aspect of the story which, until Stelter mentioned it Thursday night, has received scant coverage from the media. Maybe that’s because it so clearly implicates the networks who ran with the bogus story in the first place. It’s a topic that needs to be talked about more widely if CNN and others are to have any hope of avoiding the same pitfalls when covering similar racially explosive stories in the future.

Note: This version of the panel has been edited for length
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