MSNBC Takes Tape Over Breaking News

By Brian 



Someone at MSNBC decided not to break away from taped programming during the climax of Ned Lamont‘s primary victory last night. Here’s a screen grab of MSNBC Investigates while Lamont spoke to supporters. Chris Matthews was in Connecticut, apparently handling an MSNBC.com webcast and taping a Hardball update. FNC took both Lamont and Joe Lieberman‘s speeches live, breaking into a Factor repeat for a full half-hour…

> Also: 4:07pm: “CNN only carried Lieberman live and botched Lamont. Cooper actually said ‘we’re waiting to hear Lamont speak’ and cut to commercial while FNC was carrying it live,” an ICN e-mailer says…

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