Apr 18, 2018
MSNBC
is by far the most influential mainstream media outlet on the
American Left. It sets the tone and defines the boundary for what
is acceptable discourse among American liberals. But major issues
the Left is generally thought to care about - imperial war, worker
strikes, Palestine, climate change - are almost entirely absent
from coverage, as the network increasingly looks like a 24-hour
Trump-Russia infomercial.
What
is the point of having a liberal cable news network when it ignores
so many major issues on the Left and pushes a narrative that, in
the aggregate, does little beyond selling more weapons systems and
inflaming US-Russia proxy wars in Syria and Ukraine? How did MSNBC
get this way? What are the corporate forces making it so terrible,
and is there hope for a more thoughtful, politically relevant
network?
We
are joined, anonymously, by a former MSNBC employee.
Transcript:
https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-34-what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-msnbc-5a4538f32ef