Is This the End of Left-Leaning News?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Romney's Bain Capital helped dismantle left-wing talk network Air America. Will something similar happen to MSNBC? Republicans are gunning for Republicans. Will their be anything left beside subsidized right-wing propaganda?
Plus- Thom reads from "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property" by Ben G. Price.
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| 0:46.6 | Is it the end of left-leaning news? |
| 0:48.9 | Is progressive journalism being systematically destroyed? |
| 0:51.9 | This is a concern. |
| 0:56.5 | Have you heard that Comcast is planning to sell MSNBC? We have no idea who's planning to buy it. Might it be Rupert Murdoch? He |
| 1:02.9 | certainly has the money. Will America's media landscape soon resemble those of Hungary and Russia? |
| 1:10.5 | You know, without this right-wing media juggernaut, |
| 1:14.8 | Donald Trump probably wouldn't be president next year |
| 1:17.9 | and wouldn't have won in 2016. |
| 1:21.5 | I mean, that said, the progressive media landscape |
| 1:24.5 | looks like it's about to get a whole lot worse. |
| 1:26.8 | Comcast, which owns NBC and CNBC, among others, |
| 1:31.7 | announced this week that they'll be spinning off MSNBC, |
| 1:35.1 | and the consequences are already showing up. |
| 1:37.3 | It was announced yesterday that Rachel Maddo just took a $5 million cut in her paycheck, |
| 1:41.6 | in her annual paycheck. |
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