Episode 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC, Part II -- A Rebuttal
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In Ep. 34: 'What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC', we discussed with our anonymous MSNBC informant, well, what the hell was wrong with MSNBC? Why do they routinely focused on inane horserace and RussiaGate fear-mongering over objectively important topics like climate change, the destruction of Yemen, and worker strikes?
One listener, former MSNBC host and current MSNBC contributor, Touré thought our episode was lacking in significant context and, in many ways, unfair. So we invited him on to discuss his issue with our critique and explore the broader, evergreen media criticism problem of trying to distinguish between a need for ratings and the more subtle influence of ideology and partisan cheerleading.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power PR and the history of bullshit |
| 0:14.4 | I am Nima Shirazi. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Adam Johnson. |
| 0:17.1 | Happy New Year everyone. |
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| 0:19.3 | Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, maybe even a relaxing one. |
| 0:24.2 | Thank you all for joining us now in 2019. |
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| 0:44.8 | This episode is going to be a little bit different than usual, but we're excited about |
| 0:47.9 | it. |
| 0:48.9 | We had an inquiry from a journalist and former host of MSNBC's The Cycle from 2012 to 2015 |
| 0:55.1 | in Turei, who now himself has a podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | He rescheduled, said, a big fan of the show, but I thought your episode on MSNBC had problems. |
| 1:04.6 | Obviously he worked at MSNBC's that didn't necessarily surprise us, but we were curious |
| 1:09.2 | to talk about that because we like to think that we respond to criticism. |
| 1:12.4 | Indeed. |
| 1:13.4 | And he suggested coming on the show, so talk about it. |
| 1:15.2 | So, this episode is going to be part two of our unexpected two-part series. |
| 1:20.3 | Maybe it'll be three. |
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