Ben Grossman, writing for Broadcasting & Cable, has an interesting idea: Spin MSNBC away from NBC News, making it instead a stand-alone network within NBC-Universal, such as Bravo and USA.

Unless he is a grandmaster of irony, Grossman seems ideologically sympathetic to MSNBC: He praises the channel for having "forged a fantastic programming groove." [sic!] But in praising MSNBC for moving way to the left with the likes of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, Grossman concedes that MSNBC is now threatening to damage the NBC News brand. So make 'em completely separate, he advises, so that Olbermann & Co. would be free to do whatever they wished on their air, free from such old-school nags as Tom Brokaw and Andrea Mitchell.

Yup. Olby and Rachel and all the rest could do whatever they wished: They just couldn't call it straight news.

Cross-posted from The Cable Game.

2 Comments

By Philly on September 15, 2008 7:35 PM

That would be great: It would be a matter of months before the spun-off moonbat MSNBC would become the Err America of cable. No sane person wants to hear anti-American libnuts whine and cry all day. The venture would shrivel up and die. I say go for it.

By dfunk55 on September 15, 2008 10:00 PM

if nbc was smart, which they are not, they should do this...they would save so much street cred w/o msnbc. the reason nbc has gotten to be so bad is because of msnbc. it has nothing to do really with nbc itself that i can think of. and if msnbc was not funded by the behemoth that is the peacock, they would die due to lack of any ratings for spewing traitorous propaganda....fuckers

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