Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys!
This is the story of MSNBC in a nutshell: It rose to prominence on its criticism of George W. Bush, peaked during Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign, and, by criticizing Republicans and championing liberal causes, sustained its viewership in the years that followed.
Until now.
MSNBC suffered harder loses in 2013 -- in terms of both viewership and revenue -- than either of its competitors at Fox News and CNN, according to Nielsen data featured in a new Pew Research report. Prime-time viewership declined by a staggering 24 percent (nearly twice the loss sustained by CNN and four-times that sustained by Fox News). Daytime viewership fell by 15 percent, even as it rose at both of the other networks.
On the revenue side, MSNBC was projected to decline by 2 percent, while both CNN and Fox News were projected to experience growth of 2 percent and 5 percent, respectively. MSNBC was expected to bring in $475 million in revenue: less than half what CNN will make and roughly one-quarter of what Fox News will make.
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Don't worry, with gobs of money from cable and satellite bundling the oligarchy will be able to protect their little petulant child from the horrors of the free market. Another case of affluenzia of the good old boy (and girl) economic social network.
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They can always get bought out by a rich billionaire. Worked for WaPo and the Times...
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A business is supposed to make money; MSNBC does not; therefore, MSNBC is a failure.
Sorry, but in this case, that conventional analysis is simply wrong. The goal here is not profit, but to keep the Democratic base riled up and feed them a steady stream of talking points and outrage. (Damn those Evil Koch Bros!) You can think of running the channel as an advertising expense for The Party. As P2K said, MSNBC is not going away due to their balance sheet.
[DAWN] THE Twitter issue has taken Turkey by storm, widened the fissures in the ruling party and perhaps made Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... realise that the ban on the social media site in no way helps him in the issue involved ---- corruption. The extent of the Turkish prime minister's overreaction to charges of corruption in his government is astonishing. He alleges that the social media site is being misused, says he will prove how strong the Turkish state is and promises to "wipe out" Twitter. None of this fits with a third-time democratically elected chief executive of a country keen to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . The ban on Twitter -- violated by his own president -- isn't the only display of anger on his part. It comes in the wake of several other repressive measures: the excessive use of force against the Taksim Square protesters, the closure of schools run by his one-time mentor and now critic Fetullah Gulen, a law that tightens the executive's grip on the judiciary, a bill now in parliament for giving more powers to the intelligence agency for eavesdropping, and the restrictions on the internet and YouTube. All this comes at a time when Turkey has the dubious distinction of having the highest number of journalists in prison. As statistics show, of the 211 journalists in prison worldwide at the end of last year, Turkey tops the list with 40 mediapersons imprisoned.
That President Abdullah Gul and the deputy prime minister should violate the Twitter ban shows not only the unpopularity of the move but also a rift within the AKP -- which otherwise has many achievements to its credit, including a booming economy. By not drawing strength from these achievements, Mr Erdogan is showing a surprising degree of impetuosity, thus adding to his problems. Instead of flaunting the 'deep state', Mr Erdogan should take back some of these measures, punish the corrupt and thus present himself and his party in a better light for the March 30 municipal polls.
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I blow hot and cold on this stuff, and at a small private dinner at Buckingham Palace a while back I rather enjoyed being the only mister at a tableful of princes, dukes, earls, viscounts, barons, and knights. But on balance I think I prefer a straightforward upfront knighthood to the American practice of turning temporary office into lifelong title. It creeps me out a little when you've got, say, a Republican primary debate between Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich and it's all "Governor Romney", "Senator Santorum" and "Mr Speaker", even though none of 'em has been a governor, senator, speaker or anything else since the turn of the century. Furthermore, titles such as "Governor" and "Senator" are in the gift of the people, who confer them only for a limited time. It's an unseemly act of usurpation to appropriate them as personal prenominals. There's no point forbidding, as the US Constitution does, titles of nobility if you turn a two-year congressional term from the mid-Seventies into a lifelong aristocratic rank.
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..and don't forget the judiciary that sits for life, is (to use their own word 'defacto') unaccountable to the people, and self selects to promote their agendas over the written meaning of laws.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
DAWN] THE Twitter issue has taken Turkey by storm, widened the fissures in the ruling party and perhaps made 
