On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote:
> TheWrap: MSNBC prez Griffin parked KO after Politico reported he'd > made three contributions to Democratic candidates, two in Arizona and > one in Kentucky. > > http://ow.ly/35b5Y > > Politico article: http://ow.ly/35be3 > > And this is the very pickle MSNBC walked right into in trying to play both sides. (This is a news network. No, this is a counter to Fox News and the conservative media.) Apparently everybody BUT NBC News realized that Countdown was more an advocacy and opinion program rather than a news program. Though given how he would criticize Fox News for giving a platform to conservatives almost exclusively, I guess the crew over there are feeling a little bit of schadenfreude over this. It's beening reported to the NYTimes ( http://goo.gl/mcKuW ) that they don't want to fire him, and given how he is the face of MSNBC and its highest rated personality, they're probably stuck. They'll probably keep him off the air for the month and again remind him that he can't donate to candidates. Though the Libertarian magazine Reason has published a defense of him ( http://goo.gl/ks43k -- well, as their ideology, they would argue that anybody and everybody, every group and every company should be able to spend money to promote candidates and positions -- no limits). -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
