NBC News chairman Andrew Lack, who was hired in April to oversee NBC News and MSNBC, told Variety’s Brian Steinberg that he isn’t finished making changes at the struggling cable network. Lack has reworked MSNBC’s daytime programming with the jettisoning of low-rated programs hosted by Joy Reid, Ronan Farrow, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton in […]
The third quarter fundraising totals are in for the presidential candidates. On the Democratic side, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came so surprisingly close to frontrunner Hillary Clinton that MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said he was stunned, and that it called into question Hillary’s supposed ability to raise vast sums of money. “I find it stunning […]
According to Mediaite’s Joe Concha, NBC News president Andy Lack is asserting control and plans to make some major changes in MSNBC’s daytime programming. The goal is to try and stem the ratings slide the network has been experiencing for the last three years. MSNBC will cancel three programs, The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner and The […]
New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters appeared on MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner yesterday to discuss the controversy surrounding the Clintons. The issues were whether or not they provided favors in return for money that either they or their family foundation received over the years, as alleged in the new book Clinton Cash, and how they were […]
Hillary Clinton’s email scandal has even been too egregious for the liberal media to completely ignore. The New York Times’ Nick Confessore is the latest journalist to express his doubts about Clinton’s explanation of why she not only used a private email server, but why the server was wiped clean. Confessore appeared Monday on MSNBC’s Now […]
MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews, who declared early on that he was supporting Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, admitted on Friday that the foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, as well as the questions surrounding her involvement in the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, could be problematic for the former […]
Thanks in large part to a busy news month—with the shooting down of Malaysian Air flight MH17 over Ukraine and the crash of two other airplanes—MSNBC slid to an eight-year low in the primetime A25-54 demo. MSNBC averaged 152,000 viewers in the demo, compared to 164,000 at CNN and 299,000 at Fox News. It […]
While most of the media discussed, in one way or another, that newly released emails revealed a direct connection between Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s controversial remarks on the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, MSNBC’s Chris Matthew chose to avoid the subject on his program Tuesday. […]
During an analysis of the Boston Marathon bombings on Now with Alex Wagner, MSNBC contributor Joy Reid said that President Obama learned from the mistakes of the Bush administration, that you have to “speak early, speak often, speak confidently,” when a crisis of this magnitude happens. She said that you can’t disappear, as Bush did, […]