I was wondering if she’d say anything. MSNBC’s purge was unlikely to affect her as one of their star programmers rating wise but conversely her audience would probably expect her to show some kind of solidarity. - ThreadSky

valondar.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I was wondering if she’d say anything. MSNBC’s purge was unlikely to affect her as one of their star programmers rating wise but conversely her audience would probably expect her to show some kind of solidarity.

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The anchor ripped her own network’s “indefensible” moves.

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valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

MSNBC has never really been liberal Fox News. Fox News was created and run as an explicitly ideological project and MSNBC had a few anchors lean into liberalism in a way that made ratings gold so it sort of became their thing. But never as consistently or intentionally as Fox.

valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Still if they also axe Maddow for this (which I doubt they will) it would probably be the end of that reputation for the channel.

yeeyee187.bsky.social•1 day ago

They turned themselves into a dem mouthpiece though pretty early when they fired donohue (lol) and any anti war voices

valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s true. But they also had Joe Scarborough; they were Dems with some GOP on the side. Fox News’ idea of a Dem anchor was Alan Colmes as Hannity’s eventually retired sparring buddy. Yeah most of my thoughts about cable news TV are from the Bush presidency

gemofamara.com•1 day ago

well yeah that's liberalism

valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also true! Across the news ecosphere there is ‘baseline liberalism as just kind of a thing a lot of journalists have’ and ‘active conservative project to counteract and undermine.’

rupertsmagicgourd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Obviously the optics are horrendous but everyone that got shit canned was from the day time block, no?? That’s always been a viewing graveyard. It would make sense to want to “start over”? I haven’t watched cable news in a million years so I’m possibly completely talking out of my ass.

valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

You're probably right! I haven't watched it in forever either but it would not surprise me if that was a pivot due to ratings. Open question I guess as pivot into what.

rupertsmagicgourd.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Indeed!! As far as hilarious no-win situations go, I couldn’t think of something more perfect for MSNBC.

theonlyjordan.bsky.social•1 day ago

MSNBC is just going to continue to circle the drain, like idk what their future is as part of a company made up of the leftovers Comcast universal doesn't want anymore

valondar.bsky.social•1 day ago

That seems likely. Maddow feels like someone with a sufficiently online audience (look at the boost she gave Bluesky) she can probably keep going without the channel if this does go sideways.

theonlyjordan.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Oh yeah, she 100% can but the corporate urge to destroy your own company for shareholder value is real

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