MSNBC Chooses Ratings Over Reputation
One of the hot topics we discussed today on the Morning Media Menu with our GalleyCat colleague Jason Boog was the stir caused by MSNBC’s failure over the weekend to turn the broadcast over to breaking news in Libya. Instead, the station decided to stick with its usual weekend fare: newsmagazine and documentary programming like Caught on Camera. So while the other networks were following the historic news at Khadafy/Qaddafi/Gaddafi’s regime, MSNBC had a thieving bear.
The backlash has been harsh, with Salon calling it “humiliating.”
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