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Morning Joe and Starbucks End Sponsorship Deal: Is There Another Shoe To...
Buzfeed’s Dorsey Shaw is on a bit of a roll. Last week he was first to get tipped off about the leaked animations for The Kelly File. This week he’s the first to note that Morning Joe is no longer...
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MSNBC Teases Viewers About New Website…
Some news viewers are getting email teases for the new MSNBC.com website. Normally I wouldn’t be too interested except when one clicks on the link in the email one is taken to the temporary splash...
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Q3 Numbers: MSNBC…
MSNBC is noting its Q3 ratings… MSNBC TOPS CNN FOR THIRD QUARTER 2013 “Morning Joe” and Primetime Beat CNN for Q3 MSNBC Has Strong September with “Morning Joe,” “All In” and all Evening Shows Topping...
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Ronan Farrow to MSNBC?
The Hollywood Reporter’s Marissa Guthrie scoops that Ronan Farrow could be coming to MSNBC. Uh, who? Ronan Farrow is in talks to host his own program on MSNBC, likely joining the progressive network’s...
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Survey Says…
Word has reached me of another NBC News:VIPs survey that has been distributed to its mailing list of viewers. There have been others but they weren’t about cable news so I wasn’t interested. This one...
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More on Ronan Farrow…
Page Six offers more intel on what MSNBC may have planned for Ronan Farrow and if true it is a lot bigger than we could have possibly imagined… Ronan Farrow — the man with Woody Allen’s wit and Frank...
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Joe and Mika to Sunday Today?
The New York Post’s Claire Atkinson scoops that Joe and Mika have eyes on Sunday on NBC… MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” team of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski is looking to expand their empire — perhaps by...
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MSNBC Hires Ronan Farrow For M-Fr Daytime Show…
In a bit of a surprise move because everyone thought it would be weekends, MSNBC announced that Ronan Farrow would be getting a M-Fr daytime show… RONAN FARROW JOINS MSNBC AS HOST New Program to Launch...
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So Who Is Ronan Farrow Going To Displace On MSNBC?
The surprise news that MSNBC was going to give Ronan Farrow a daytime show M-Fr begets the following: Who is losing their show? Someone has to. So it’s time for a poll question…actually a two poll...
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Ronan Farrow Profile
The New York Times’ Michael Schulman writes a puff piece profile of Ronan Farrow. MSNBC needs to be very careful. Between the Times slobbering all over Farrow and the quotes both the network and Farrow...
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Anatomy Of A Tweet…
Today, as usually happens during Jansing & Co. on a Friday, there was a Flashback Friday where a clip from somewhere in Jansing’s past is replayed. Today’s clip concerned the election of Barack...
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You Can’t Have Your Progressive Cake And Eat It Too…
I’ve been meaning to get to this but hadn’t had the time. A couple of weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter’s Marissa Guthrie interviewed Pat Fili-Krushel who weighed in on something Phil Griffin said a few...
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Al Sharpton’s “Activism Out Clause”…
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple writes about a clause put in MSNBC’s contract with Al Sharpton… When the Rev. Al Sharpton was negotiating with MSNBC in 2011 for his 6 p.m. show, he made clear right...
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MSNBC Suspends Alec Baldwin…
TVNewser’s Merril Knox writes that MSNBC has suspended Alec Baldwin for two weeks because he said some nasty things to a Papparazi photographer, which Baldwin has a history of doing. Naturally, the PC...
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MSNBC Should Fire Martin Bashir…
Meanwhile, while the TV world was focusing on something Alec Baldwin said on the fly in the heat of the moment, Martin Bashir was dumping something he planned in advance and was much much worse on the...
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Dump Phil Griffin?
Mediaite’s Joe Concha argues that MSNBC President Phil Griffin should be removed from his position. Concha goes on to list his reasons. I will examine each in turn and give them grades of 0-10 in terms...
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MSNBC Sends Wrong Signals With Bashir Apology…
Martin Bashir apologized on the air today for his Sarah Palin commentary last week… …or should I say “was ordered to”? Whatever the case (and I believe the latter is the more likely scenario), with...
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Alec Baldwin Done At MSNBC?
Page Six’s Emily Smith is saying so… Alec Baldwin is not welcome back at MSNBC because of his infamous angry behavior, network insiders say — including complaining that “the air at 30 Rock is too dry.”...
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Payback…
FNC’s Howard Kurtz writes that Sarah Palin cancelled a Matt Lauer interview on NBC because of the Martin Bashir fiasco. Ok…so who said that NBC News wouldn’t suffer because of Bashir’s antics? WRONG!...
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Joe Scarborough Inserts Himself Into Martin Bashir’s Fiasco…
Well this won’t go down well with Phil Griffin. Newsmax’s Bill Hoffmann writes about something Scarborough said on Newsmax’s “Steve Malzberg Show” (via J$) “I agree with Martin Bashir’s apology. It was...
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