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Role of the Media

She sounded like a smooth jazz radio DJ. What's wrong with that comment???? She can work a microphone. The left doesn't respect women!!!
 
So what did they look into? Did they find out the president has no roll in constitutional amendments. Did they find out that they needed 2/3rd approval in both the house and senate where they can't even get 50% from their own party for their own legislation. They realize they then need 38 states to sign off as well.
 
A unified Republican Party is eerily close to being able to do that.
 
I, for one, am shocked that firing Ailes and promoting one of his top guys, who was also named in multiple lawsuits, didn't change the culture of Fox News.
 
With Trump In The White House, MSNBC Is Resisting The Resistance

But Lack, in seeking to make this vision a reality, has an unusual problem for a TV executive: sky-high ratings. Since the election of Trump, MSNBC’s liberal primetime programs hosted by Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell have surged not just in ratings but in the share of the cable news audience they’re capturing. In its earnings call on Thursday, NBCUniversal specifically cited the boost in ratings to “The Rachel Maddow Show” for a spike in profits. Maddow has been the top show on cable news in the key demographic for two months running, an inconceivable achievement at MSNBC.

Tossing those primetime hosts overboard while they’re raking in viewership and revenue has so far proved an elusive task.

“Hayes, Maddow, O’Donnell ― the entire primetime lineup is doing record numbers and Lack can’t stand it. It makes him furious,” said one senior MSNBC source, echoing the sentiment of many other insiders who spoke to HuffPost only on the condition of anonymity. (An NBC spokesman said Lack is happy with the high ratings.)
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This is like a Major League remake, but this time set at a cable news network.
 
So much in that article. I'll start with this:

The perception that Lack has eviscerated nonwhite talent at MSNBC has affected the way some of his interactions with black staff at MSNBC are viewed. This past spring, Lack reportedly asked a black senior producer if she could connect him with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. “It was like Trump asking April Ryan to hook him up with the [Congressional Black Caucus],” said one employee. (We’re withholding the name of the producer; a spokesman noted that Lack also asked Chris Hayes for Coates’ contact info.)
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Looks like MSNBC is busting two conservative myths. First, minorities are doing their jobs well and getting replaced by white people anyway. So much for working hard to overcome racism. Second, MSNBC is moving to the center and losing support.

Now it makes some sense to bring in moderate conservatives to give conservatives a place to go that isn't in the tank for Trump. But I'm not sure why Lack expected the MSNBC audience to tune into Greta or Megyn or for the hardcore Fox News audience to switch to MSNBC. I think TV and movies execs tend to overrate the impact of star power. This weekend, a movie staring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson debuted 4th in the box office behind How to Be a Latin Lover and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, a Telugu language film. Latinos and Indians came out.

Seems like Lack is aiming for a generic white moderate audience and leaving behind liberals and minorities to do so. It's a sadly common troupe in TV. A network builds a following with one audience and leaves it behind to chase a more mainstream audience. We saw it with FOX as well as WB and UPN before they became CW.
 
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