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Still more interesting is this: While each adds a few extra individual original bits, all three shows on FOX essentially cover the same four stories, in different orders. (Those stories are the Wisconsin recall, birtherism, planned parenthood promotes gender-based abortion, and the obligatory anti-Obama story.) There is some variation in the Obama smack-downs, but all of the others hammer home the exact same arguments using the exact same verbiage; each is pretty much interchangeable with the other, and might well have been penned by a single source. (Which is not to say that it was.). On the other hand, MSNBC has only one story covered by all three programs: the obligatory anti-Romney segments, which do not have the uniformity in commentary that FOX has with its anti-Obama segments. (And the truth is that grouping Maddow’s commentary with Shultz’s or O’Donnell’s is a huge stretch. Shultz and O’Donnell’s Romney rants seem more akin to the FOX anti-Obama screeds, politics aside.) Past that there is very little overlap at MSNBC. Whereas FOX’s shows have the appearance of a concerted and strategized effort, the hosts of MSNBC are all over the map.
Similarly, there is a consistency in production quality in the FOX shows that MSNBC lacks. While I have to say that Maddow is intellectually superior to anything I saw on FOX, her two compatriots are just as vile as their cross-channel rivals without being nearly as entertaining or engaging. MSNBC was a tale of two sides of the spectrum, while all the FOX shows seemed to be one long, amorphous hack job.
There were other differences. One that I noted on my MSNBC post is the way each deals with dissenting voices. FOX likes having “opposing views” – or, to be more precise, FOX likes having the illusion of opposing views. The people they choose to “debate” the host are terrible; whether they are really poor debaters of are simply under contract to not point out the huge flaws in the host’s reasoning I can’t say. They are also picked, as I have noted, because they are young, attractive women who have that car-show model look, which helps feed the white, male misogynist stereotype of a FOX viewer that many liberals have. Having the jowly, elderly male host “win” and then chuckle over how “cute” the failed efforts of the pretty young lady were is really quite nauseating. MSNBC, on the other hand, goes a different and equally bad route – they only have guests on that tell the hosts how clever and awesome they are. The result is something that comes off as being tremendously sad to watch, and is the very definition of “the echo chamber” its hosts are so willing to call FOX.
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classic when she mentioned her high school love for "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" - much to her parents chagrin at the time.
she should talk about obama's drones more.
― boy_slayer, Saturday, 5 January 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
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is she still good
i saw someone the other day say matter-of-factly 'of course she's terrible', like when did the worm turn
― j., Friday, 20 February 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
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