Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC is by far the most influential mainstream media outlet on the American Left. It sets the tone and defines the boundary for what is acceptable discourse among American liberals. But major issues the Left is generally thought to care about - imperial war, worker strikes, Palestine, climate change - are almost entirely absent from coverage, as the network increasingly looks like a 24-hour Trump-Russia infomercial.

What is the point of having a liberal cable news network when it ignores so many major issues on the Left and pushes a narrative that, in the aggregate, does little beyond selling more weapons systems and inflaming US-Russia proxy wars in Syria and Ukraine? How did MSNBC get this way? What are the corporate forces making it so terrible, and is there hope for a more thoughtful, politically relevant network?

We are joined, anonymously, by a former MSNBC employee.

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0:00.0	This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson.
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0:14.6	I am Nemeshirazi.
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0:40.2	So, on today's episode, we're going to talk about a topic that we've touched on quite
0:44.0	a bit, but never really focused on, which is what the hell is wrong with MSNBC.
0:48.8	It's a question we get a lot on social media, which is like, what's their deal?
0:53.5	Why do they suck so bad?
0:55.8	Why do they not?
0:56.8	What has happened with that?
0:57.8	MSNBC is by far the most influential media outlet on the American left.
1:02.0	People watch cable news.
1:03.5	It sets the tone.
1:04.5	It sets the parameters of acceptable debate.
1:06.3	Yes, that's the agenda among the American liberals.
1:09.9	But major issues on the left that are of importance to people on the left are almost never
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