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Former MSNBC producer - 'why I’m now leaving MSNBC'
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:32 pm
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July 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore. My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.
You may not watch MSNBC but just know that this problem still affects you, too. All the commercial networks function the same – and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed, one way or the other.
It’s possible that I’m more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio, where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or guest would “rate.” The longer I was at MSNBC, the more I saw such choices — it’s practically baked in to the editorial process – and those decisions affect news content every day. Likewise, it’s taboo to discuss how the ratings scheme distorts content, or it’s simply taken for granted, because everyone in the commercial broadcast news industry is doing the exact same thing.
But behind closed doors, industry leaders will admit the damage that’s being done.
“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me. “But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis. The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.
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Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:33 pm to RLDSC FAN
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“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”
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MSNBC
Checks out
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:34 pm to RLDSC FAN
This has been happening for hundreds of years. Nothing new.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:34 pm to RLDSC FAN
Dude is just mad Rachel Maddow won’t wear the strap on & take him to pound town.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:37 pm to wutangfinancial
I think it ramped up with 24 hour cable news, ramped up even more with social media, and then went to heights never comprehended before with the election of Trump.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
This is an issue at every news network. I can't watch any of it anymore. Some are worse than others, but they're all horrible. I hate it the most whenever the talking heads look outraged on TV. After they're done filming they probably go count their bonus checks and laugh.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:38 pm to RLDSC FAN
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As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis.
What civil rights crisis?
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:
quote:
As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis. The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.
ya think?????
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
Nothing new here. Money has always been an over riding factor in journalism.
So listen/watch to PBS is what they are saying.
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It’s possible that I’m more sensitive to the editorial process due to my background in public radio, where no decision I ever witnessed was predicated on how a topic or guest would “rate.”
So listen/watch to PBS is what they are saying.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:42 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:I have a cure. It’s called getting rid of 24/7 news channels.
“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me. “But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:42 pm to RLDSC FAN
Y’all remember a guy by the name of Thomas Paine.
He wrote a pamphlet titled ,”Common Sense”. Around 1776.
It had an influence on the way this country was formed.
News media can be good and bad. I don’t care for all this 24 hour talking heads crap.
He wrote a pamphlet titled ,”Common Sense”. Around 1776.
It had an influence on the way this country was formed.
News media can be good and bad. I don’t care for all this 24 hour talking heads crap.
This post was edited on 8/3/20 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:44 pm to billjamin
The clickbait model ruined journalism. The profession is dead.
CNN is almost as bad as MSNBC.
CNN is almost as bad as MSNBC.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:54 pm to RogerTheShrubber
"I don't understand how they could air crap like this on the nightly news...I said "Four SCORE"...not "Four WHORES""
Abraham Lincoln comment when asked about CNN and MSNBC misreporting what he said in his speech
Abraham Lincoln comment when asked about CNN and MSNBC misreporting what he said in his speech
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
Yep. He layered it out clearly too.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
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My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions.
I'm going to have to disagree here
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:57 pm to WDE24
It also ramped up with the printing press, development of radio and TV. It's just recycled phenomenon driven by technological advancements in communication. Economic incentives to promote propoganda and half truths have always been around.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 3:59 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:
“We are a cancer and there is no cure,” a successful and insightful TV veteran said to me. “But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.”
As it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis. The model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others… all because it pumps up the ratings.
Speaking as a person with cancer, I find the use of this word to be offensive and I demand MSNBC be cancelled immediately.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 4:00 pm to RLDSC FAN
This is why I do not waste my time with mainstream media. They are not attempting to inform. They trying to establish a narrative. And our country is worse for it.
Posted on 8/3/20 at 4:04 pm to wutangfinancial
quote:All true, but scale, reach, and frequency matter, I think.
It also ramped up with the printing press, development of radio and TV. It's just recycled phenomenon driven by technological advancements in communication. Economic incentives to promote propoganda and half truths have always been around
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