Going back to the way things were IS doing the same thing. You want things to go back to the past. That's not going to solve the problem most people have with news.
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Going back to the way things were IS doing the same thing. You want things to go back to the past. That's not going to solve the problem most people have with news.
"Nightly" was never not #1. The program has won all but 1 or 2 weeks in the last 52.
They spent most of April, after BW's suspension, at #2.
That quote may say more about YOU than it does about MSNBC.
I consume ample amounts of content from both sources. I don't see that much sameness in their content. Yes, they both are "a thorn in the flesh" to fans of Conservative thinking... but MSNBC is somewhat outrageously brash and impudent... trying to get viewers blood flowing... sometimes boiling... while NPR carries on with "liberal" amounts of dignity. The fact that "the room was not big enough" for NPR style and Bob Edwards to live in the same space says something about the cool dignity of NPR.
If the content was actually about the same, we might be hearing Al Sharpton with a regular gig at NPR... but we don't.
NPR at least pretends to have "centrist dignity" while MSNBC (like the family dog rolling in the front lawn where it just urinated) loves to brashly urinate on your family room carpet and then the host wants to roll around in it. But... they are not as good at it as the folks over at FOX.
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Have you tried "Car Talk", "Wait, Wait", "Says You" or even "A Prairie Home Companion"?
Yes, but how do cars from the 1950s and 1960s relate to this topic?
It's simply a conversational concept of "parallel comparison". Back in the 50s and 60s we had in most parts of the country about 5 radio formats, today stations have searched around and found maybe 30 or more niche formats in hopes of snagging and keeping a bit of audience.
Back in the 50s and 60s, in the world of automobiles we had 4 dr sedans, 2 dr sedans, coupes, convertibles and station wagons. The parallel comparison is that today we have maybe 30 or more niche radio formats, we have 30 or more automobile styles to choose from and those 30 or more styles come in versions from 20 or more different manufacturers.
Back in the 50s we tended to have one doctor for the family... a General Practicioner who did it all. Today it is not at all unusual to look in your phone list and relized that you have 20 or more doctors that you see with some regularity. (Well.... we who are old enough to remember Harry Truman need that many doctors on our phone list.
)As we've pointed out many times, NPR doesn't have any single host talk shows. That's mainly what MSNBC does. So no, they're not the same.
And NPR has way more listeners than MSNBC has viewers. Almost ten times as many.
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Give NPR more credit than that! I'm quite sure that they have wa-a-a-ay more than 400 listeners.
they wouldn't get any younger demos, just a bunch of old liberals watching, young people don't even watch the cable news channels to begin with
Hey - I AM an "old liberal" and I don't have time for cable news, unless a major story is breaking and I want to see video. And I almost never buy newspapers. Like most Americans, I get most of my news increasingly from news websites, with some NPR thrown in when I commute by car.
News on the internet is just as immediate as cable, and you can see the same video stories that the cable nets are broadcasting. And the shrinking of newspapers and subscribers must have saved the world about a million trees by now.
Give NPR more credit than that! I'm quite sure that they have wa-a-a-ay more than 400 listeners.
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Typical alleged conservative "humor." Back to the playground, kiddies. Yaawwn.
Conservative? On some things, yes, but not all by any means. I assure you that I am an equal-opportunity sarcastician. My barbs are guaranteed to offend someone of any political stripe.
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