This is one reason I don't see Elon having much interest in buying MSNBC. For one thing, once the Boomers are gone there probably won't be much of a "television news" gig left. Young people follow social media, podcasts, etc.--they don't sit and watch TV news.
Agreed, although they could completely revamp it as a platform for new media outlets, de-emphasizing traditional television networks. However, I don't know how valuable the "MSNBC" name would be other than name recognition.
How much of this is Comcast, deluding itself that it can lure the greater audience outside the far left back to cable TV?
I don't believe they'd keep the name. Since MSNBC is a television network, what would be the point of buying it if the plan is to revamp it into social media? Just start a new social media outlet and let MSNBC die a natural death.
I was thinking the same thing. There is no value in the name. And broadcast assets would be of no use.
I'm still waiting on Norah O'Donnell to leave CBS. They said she would anchor until after the elections and it's officially after the elections. Time for the hook.
I found her attractive, but she is dumber than a box of rocks. Perhaps she will try out for "The View".
I heard that they are closing The View, but that is probably just a rumor. I think that those people have gotten themselves sued a few times now, so with lost viewers and lawsuits, maybe they just are not profitable anymore. If the television channels lose the pharmaceutical ad revenue like RFK wants to do, they will not be forced into saying what those companies want aired anymore, but they might have lost enough viewers that they are going to have trouble staying in business. I think that there must be still an awful lot of people who watch television because there is so much interest in what the people who are on the tv news and other programs are going to do. We have a television, but never turn it on except when we have bad weather. We just have an antenna, but it gets local stations, so we can hear weather reports if we think we might have a tornado. Otherwise, Bobby and I just use our iPads for whatever information we want to get, so no cable news at all, or TV programming .
I think there are something like 65 million Boomers, so until we die off television news will still be a thing.
I mourn the loss of actual responsible journalism. I remember taking journalism classes back in the day, thinking I'd like to be a newspaper reporter. We were taught the "who, what, when, where, why and how" method of reporting and opinion pieces were strictly editorials. "Just the facts, ma'am." I thought that journalists were people of integrity but apparently I was very wrong. Now I see them as hacks, pushing their own agenda (or an agenda paid for by the highest bidder.) Of course it seems to me that values, integrity, and personal responsibility are in very short supply these days in all facets of society.
I don't see TV being around much anyway, I never use our TV except to enlarge screen for my laptop so I can see plus I darken it considerately to take away the brightness or contrast, whatever it is called.
Journalists always had a viewpoint/slant, but I don't think many blatantly lied outright as they do now. Maybe I am naïve, but that is how I saw it then. Newspaper editorials were always slanted, but you expected that, and there was always an op-ed side of things...well, most of the time. Journalism schools have changed, just as colleges and universities have. I never thought The View was journalism even though it is under ABC News. The Today Show was under NBC News as well and I never thought it really was journalism either. They both should have been listed as entertainment.