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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"MSNBC can't have it both ways".
http://thedailybanter.com/2014/01/boycott-or-not-msnbc-cant-have-it-both-ways/"The issue is that MS is trying to have it both ways. Its trying to engage in a street fight with Fox News and conservatives while also keeping its hands unbloodied. It wants to take a side but still remain true to the tenets of honest journalism, which are antithetical to taking a side. The problem is something Ive written about before, which is that despite its occasionally combative progressive tone and urge to meet its enemies on their own terms, MSNBC still has to answer to the NBC mothership, which is insistent on balance and objectivity to a fault. NBC is so dedicated to the notion of being unbiased that it will proudly behave as if all political stories have two equal sides, essentially turning its journalists into little more than stenographers dutifully reporting the conventional wisdom of whichever side of the aisle they happen to be assigned to and despite going way out on a limb over the past couple of years MSNBC has had to at least nominally toe that company line because to not do so would hurt NBC Newss reputation as a whole."
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"MSNBC can't have it both ways". (Original Post)
Dawson Leery
Jan 2014
OP
What's ridiculous is that it doesn't matter. The conservative crowd think it's biased anyway.
okaawhatever
Jan 2014
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okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)1. What's ridiculous is that it doesn't matter. The conservative crowd think it's biased anyway.
Their view of msnbc isn't fact based. Would it matter if they were more aggressive in their reporting?
Squinch
(51,072 posts)2. In today's atmosphere, unbiased journalism seems liberal in comparison to what else is out there,
so they don't really have to choose.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)3. MSNBC is probably in some sort of transition...?
Since they are now owned by Comcast?
It's a big ship and hard to turn around in a short space of time, I would think?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)4. kick