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Exclusive: More MSNBC Changes Coming with Three Shows Out, Hard News and Chuck Todd Back

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Via:  xxjefferson51  •  10 years ago  •  11 comments

Exclusive: More MSNBC Changes Coming with Three Shows Out, Hard News and Chuck Todd Back
A well-placed source tells me MSNBC will announce today major changes to its afternoon lineuparguably the most significant revamp the network has made at one time in its 19-year history.Out: The Cycle at 3:00 PM. Now with Alex Wagner at 4:00 PM. The Ed Show with Ed Schultz at 5:00 PM (all times eastern).In: Chuck Todd at 5:00 PM. Similar to Jake Tapper at CNN doing both weekday afternoons (hosting The Lead) and anchoring Sunday mornings State of the Union, Todd will also continue to work weekends as moderator of Sundays Meet the Press. Todds MSNBC show will likely take on its old name The Daily Rundown, but that is not a guarantee.More interesting: Andrea Mitchell will keep her program at noon (Andrea Mitchell Reports). Thomas Roberts will continue to anchor his midday news program from 1:00-3:00 PM. The programs being cancelled at 3:00 PM (The Cycle) and 4:00 PM (Now with Alex Wagner) will be replaced by a straight news program (similar to Roberts two-hour newscast preceding it). Whether that 3:00-5:00 PM slot goes to Brian Williams is not known at this time, but it would certainly make the most sense to put Williams directly up against Foxs Shepard Smith (Shepard Smith Reporting) and CNNs Brooke Baldwin (CNN Newsroom) for the first hour in a similar format.Since coming on four months ago, relatively new NBC News Chief Andy Lack is obviously making his presence felt. Ratings are in the toiletit somehow finished 5th in a four-horse race recently. Staffers and talent are walking on eggshells. And unless your last name is Matthews, Maddow or your first name Joe or Mika, nobody appears safe, as Mediaites Andrew Kirell reported exclusively earlier this week.Once self-dubbed The Place for Politics, MSNBC goes back to its 1996 roots: More news, less talk.The place for politics pertains only to mornings and prime-time now. Lack quickly realized that the lack of balance via almost all opinion programming and very little hard news offerings was killing the network as audiences ran to CNN and Fox in droves when any big breaking story was happening. The good news for fans of the network is the Lacks actually doing something about itall while tapping resources from the NBC Mothership to help make it happen without breaking the bank. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-more-msnbc-changes-coming-with-three-shows-out-hard-news-and-chuck-todd-back/

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XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
And yet MSNBC is moving to copy Fox News. Moving from 85% opinion shows to closer to 50/50 opinion/news shows. Your bitter anger at Fox is quite funny.
 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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link   A. Macarthur    10 years ago

Survey: NPRs listeners best-informed, Fox viewers worst-informed

avatar by Andrew Beaujon Published May 23, 2012 7:49 am Updated May 23, 2012 7:58 am

Fairleigh Dickinson University
People who watch no news at all can answer more questions about international current events than people who watch cable news, a survey by Fairleigh Dickinson Universitys PublicMind finds.

NPR and Sunday morning political talk shows are the most informative news outlets, while exposure to partisan sources, such as Fox News and MSNBC, has a negative impact on peoples current events knowledge.

People who watch MSNBC and CNN exclusively can answer more questions about domestic events than people who watch no news at all. People who only watch Fox did much worse. NPR listeners answered more questions correctly than people in any other category.

The survey of 1185 random people conducted by landline and cell phone in early February follows a similar poll FDU conducted last November , which surveyed only New Jersey residents and returned similar results.

Each respondent was asked four of eight questions, which are at the bottom of this post. On average, people were able to answer correctly 1.8 of 4 questions about international news, and 1.6 of 5 questions about domestic affairs, the report says. Heres the breakdown by viewing habits.

The report explains:

The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.

Interestingly, the results of the poll controlled for partisanship. MSNBC, Fox and talk radio consumers answered more questions correctly when their political views aligned with those of the outlets they preferred. Moderates and liberals who watched only Fox did worse than conservatives who watched it. This mirrored the results at MSNBC, where a conservative viewer could be expected to answer an average of .71 international questions correctly, for example, and a liberal viewer could be expected to answer 1.89 questions correctly. None of the other news media had effects that depended on ideology, says the report.

On average, people were able to answer correctly 1.8 of 4 questions about international news, and 1.6 of 5 questions about domestic affairs, but depending on the match between ideology and viewing habits, the score could be lower or higher.

FDU political scientist Dan Cassino said the results show Ideological news sources, like Fox and MSNBC, are really just talking to one audience. This is solid evidence that if youre not in that audience, youre not going to get anything out of watching them.

News organizations tone and allocation of resources also apparently affected respondents abilities to answer questions. NPR has as many domestic bureaus as foreign ones; its listeners did best on questions about international events. Daily Show viewers were next. On domestic questions, people who watched Sunday news shows did nearly as well as NPR listeners.

Questions : (all but the first two were open-ended)
To the best of your knowledge, have the opposition groups protesting in Egypt been successful in removing Hosni Mubarak?
How about the opposition groups in Syria? Have they been successful in removing Bashar al-Assad?
Some countries in Europe are deeply in debt, and have had to be bailed out by other countries. To the best of your knowledge, which country has had to spend the most money to bail out European countries?
There have been increasing talks about economic sanctions against Iran. What are these sanctions supposed to do?
Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives right now?
In December, House Republicans agreed to a short-term extension of a payroll tax cut, but only if President Obama agreed to do what?
It took a long time to get the final results of the Iowa caucuses for Republican candidates. In the end, who was declared the winner?
How about the New Hampshire Primary? Which Republican won that race?
According to official figures, about what percentage of Americans are currently unemployed?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
I'll stick with the five, o'reilly, kelly, hannity.
 
 
 
Nowhere Man
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link   Nowhere Man    10 years ago

I get better informed over the radio than from TV, any flavor...

For depth I search the net.

Radio has that fresh "Right Now" feeling that TV lost when Walter retired.

As far as joke? All tv has it's tough rooms. So tough in fact that they all vy for being the worst media around.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
Fox News the most trusted name in news.
 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
According to polls.
 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
Fox News is the most trusted national news channel. And its not that close. .
 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
The ignorant ones are those that refuse to watch it.
 
 
 
Randy
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link   Randy    10 years ago

Fox is not 50/50 News shows. Their entire schedule is biased. What you call a "news show" is a parade of anti Obama, anti "liberal", anti Democrat talking heads who spend days on end discussing Lois Lerner's e-mails.

Eggslactly.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
Would you all like to have a little cheese to go with your progressive whine?
 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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link   seeder  XXJefferson51    10 years ago
That you all don't like Fox News is obvious. Frankly we don't really care. In fact, the anger on the left that it exists and the resentment they feel about us who watch it makes watching it all the more rewarding and pleasurable. That it does a great job is an added bonus. Of course Fox isn't what this article is about. It's about changes at MSNBC.
 
 
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