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Morning News Crap
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: September 24, 2010 10:07AM

Morning Joe has to be the worst. It's juvenile and treats it's audience like a kindergarten class. First it is "News You Can't Use" then at the end it is "What did we learn today"? They could actually combine the two "What did we learn today from our news you can't use"?

It really gets on my nerves when someone on the show ribs a former or upcoming guest or guest host in the slightest manner then Mika , Joe or both immediately recoil and go into their "Oh we love so and so he/she is wonderful and smart and we love them on our show"!! Fuck that shit. They're idiots.

Then every damn show does the same pop culture interest story until you want to puke.
This mornings story was Katy Perry on Sesame Street. Every fucking network! Wow! That is some enthralling fucking shit man. I hope some of these producers get cancer. I really do. They suck as producers and human beings in general and should just die a painful death.

Fox seems to always go the sex sells route. This morning I think it was the Victoria Secret models or something. At 8:00 AM.? Of course the male hosts are playing their usual shrug their shoulders "gee my job is hard role" fake bullshit while mugging sarcastically at the camera. The stupid blonde left in the studio of course is playing her sarcastic "awe I feel sorry for you guys" role too. I'm serious . How many times are they going to go to that well? Useless drivel.

What I really can't understand is MSNBC giving Larry O'Donnell a show to run against Greta Van Susteren. This guy oozes arrogance out of every orifice.

Lawrence O'Donnell.jpg He wrote for "The West Wing". Not the White House. I guess there use to be a T.V. show or something.
I'm sure this is the brainchild of none other then Jeff Zucker.Under Zucker NBC fell from being the number one rated network to the lowest rated of the four broadcast networks and often beaten in the ratings by programming on some of the more popular cable channels.


Anyone with a brain in their skull knows O'Donnell won't beat Olbermann reruns.

It is pretty sad when Don Imus on FOX Business is the most entertaining morning show on major and cable networks. What the fuck. alg_don_imus.jpg

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Re: Morning News Crap
Posted by: Registered Voter ()
Date: September 24, 2010 12:50PM

One down...

JEFF ZUCKER FIRED BY STEVE BURKE: "They Wanted To Move On" After Merge; Sends Email To NBCU Staff That He'll Exit When Comcast Takes Control
http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/cnbc-zucker-wont-make-comcast-merger/
...How bizarre that Zucker made the announcement to his staff this morning even though Comcast won't clear regulatory hurdles until First Quarter 2011 at the earliest. (There've been considerable delays dragging out the deal approval process.) That makes Zucker not just a lame duck, but a sitting duck at the Big Media company. "We're all in shock," an insider told me before news of the Zucker-Burke meeting got out. "They must have fired him. He sent out a note to the staff along the lines of 'I've loved my time here and it's time for me to go.'" In fact, senior staff received word directly from Zucker about 30 minutes before the email went out wide to NBCU. (See email below.) One NBCU exec I spoke with this morning had just dealt with Zucker the day before. "I spoke to him on other topics and he gave no indication. He didn’t seem depressed. It was business as usual." The news first broke early this morning on CNBC which reported that Jeff Zucker will step down as CEO of NBC Universal after the merger with Comcast. CNBC has a history as the in-house clearinghouse for news about NBCU, GE, and now Comcast.

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University

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Re: Morning News Crap
Posted by: Registered Voter ()
Date: September 24, 2010 12:52PM

Two down...

Jonathan Klein to Leave CNN
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/jonathan-klein-to-leave-cnn/
Jonathan Klein, the president of the beleaguered CNN/U.S. cable channel, is being replaced by Ken Jautz, the head of the tabloid-oriented sister channel HLN, the company said Friday.

The change is effective immediately. Mr. Klein was fired earlier this week by his boss Jim Walton, the president of CNN Worldwide. In a telephone interview, Mr. Klein said Mr. Walton “told me they wanted to restructure things this way, and thank you very much, and good luck.â€

Mr. Klein was in charge of CNN for nearly six years. During that time period, he has marketed the channel as the lone nonpartisan source of cable news, positioning Fox News to the right and MSNBC to the left. But CNN’s ratings have languished, while Fox’s and MSNBC’s have improved, leading some media critics to publicly wonder why he had not been fired.

Despite the public speculation about the safety of Mr. Klein’s job, the timing of the shake-up shocked CNN employees because the channel — which ranks fourth in the prime time ratings behind Fox News, MSNBC, and HLN — is about to undergo a reinvention that he organized. The commentators Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker are scheduled to replace a news program at 8 p.m. next month, and the talent show judge and journalist Piers Morgan will replace Larry King three months after that....


Sex is still the way to go evidently...

If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University



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Re: Morning News Crap
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: September 24, 2010 12:55PM

Wow, GE selling NBC to Comcast, nice move there. I was getting sick and tired of the politicizing of GE through NBC, especially with their AGW BS pushing GE windmills and crap.

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Re: Morning News Crap
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: September 24, 2010 01:08PM

I actually like Morning Joe. Fox in the morning (whatever it's called) is unbearably biased and they don't get very good guests, usually just sycophants. They're usually on my view with a lot of the spending and government control issues, but they make such a push to sensationalize, it's blatant and lame.

I like that Willie Geist ( his father is on CBS Sunday Morning). His role is just the stupid little filler, I appreciate his dry wit. Joe and Mika are good foils, Joe isn't conservative enough for me at all, and while Mika shows signs of common sense, she is a liberal, a mother and a woman, so I expect little.

Morning Joe wins my viewing because the guest panel is thoughtful at least. While there are a few jackasses on I have zero patience for (Eugene Robinson, Katrina Van den Huevel) they are usually straighten out by resident crumedgeon Pat Buchanan.

Lawrence O'Donnell is a fucking smug pussy who apparently went to the Keith Olbermann school of fake indignation and pompousity. Ditto with Mike Barnicle. another self-righteous elite fuck who probably would have no career if he'd been born 25 years later. (He also was fired from the Boston Globe for plagarism http://articles.cnn.com/1998-08-19/us/9808_19_barnicle_1_globe-columnist-mike-barnicle-matthew-storin-resignation?_s=PM:US )


MSNBC sucks as a whole. Chris Matthews used to have my respect. I don't know if he took some directive from corporate and became a sniveling liberal Obama suckup for ratings or if it's his true calling, probably a combo of both. He usd to have a respectable, thoughtful show. Now it's just GOP bash and push the dem agenda for an hour, like a PG version of Olbermann. And fuck that ugly Maddow dude in his ass already.


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Re: Morning News Crap
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: September 24, 2010 04:10PM

WingNut Wrote:
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> I actually like Morning Joe. Fox in the morning
> (whatever it's called) is unbearably biased and
> they don't get very good guests, usually just
> sycophants. They're usually on my view with a lot
> of the spending and government control issues, but
> they make such a push to sensationalize, it's
> blatant and lame.
>

Man do I have my finger on the pulse or what? I started this thread several hours before the news came out and had no idea what was coming.

Don't get me wrong I enjoy viewing AM Joe also for many of the same reasons you stated. But also for the car crash rubberneck aspect too.

I think it is hilarious about Fucker. Maybe nothing will change very quickly but it would be funny as hell if O'Donnell got the ax post-haste. I hope they keep AM Joe for the reasons listed above. It is kind of the AM zoo of morning shows.

AM Joe was Zucker's answer to fixing their Imus issue. Nice little love nest of bleeding heart whatevers.

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