MSNBC folds to McCain camp pressure
Posted by Little Ms Purple at 9/8/2008 11:13 AM 
Categories: 2008 Election, Political strategies, All Posts
Categories: 2008 Election, Political strategies, All Posts
What a great political strategy... brow beat a network into canning their political news anchors because they are too biased. Whatever you want to say about MSNBC's political coverage, the one thing you can't say is that it has been boring during the primaries and the beginnings of this final lap to the election.
I can't see how the McCain camp is able to brow beat MSNBC to fire Olbermann and Matthews as anchors during political coverage while Fox News' anchors are never called out for their obvious bias. Before reading that news today, I actually thought MSNBC was beating Fox News at their own game... albeit from the opposite side but beating them nonetheless.
This is a classic example of the strategists controlling the media, which has been happening since our democracy was created, and a tactic that we prided ourselves on back when I was in the game. For the McCain camp, this is a grand slam.
I can't see how the McCain camp is able to brow beat MSNBC to fire Olbermann and Matthews as anchors during political coverage while Fox News' anchors are never called out for their obvious bias. Before reading that news today, I actually thought MSNBC was beating Fox News at their own game... albeit from the opposite side but beating them nonetheless.
This is a classic example of the strategists controlling the media, which has been happening since our democracy was created, and a tactic that we prided ourselves on back when I was in the game. For the McCain camp, this is a grand slam.
Oh, I agree with you here; unfortunately, Fox is allowed to play by a different set of rules and makes no claim of being fair and unbiased, at least none that I've heard. MSNBC on the other hand has and it's is disconcerting to have two anchors calling the play-by-play who are both clearly "biased."
My view is that since Tim Russert's passing, the place is in a major state of flux and it's a bunch of kids jockeying for top spot and they need an adult to come in and say hey, stop this...this is how it's supposed to be done. Then again, they did roll out Luke Russert, which I thought was shameful...some things just aren't transferable, no matter how hard you try.
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Yeah... If Russert was still with us, you're right, he'd referee this situation between NBC News and MSNBC. I don't think it was shameful to bring Luke out though... I kinda liked watching him report... but I can see where you could think otherwise.
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