progressive podcasts have hit the million subscribers mark..

newcasts, like health care, should be not for profit entities because our information health is just as important as our physical health. sadly, both are in critical condition at this moment.

Why people are so dedicated to watching that garbage is one of life's great mysteries.

and cancel Rachel, Chris Hayes, Lawrence, etc.? Is that the way to preserve freedom of speech?

I get the complaint in the OP, but don't we want to insist on better from MSNOW instead of eliminating it altogether?

I don't like every show or host on MS NOW, but there are plenty that are exceptional and certainly worth watching.

Whenever someone on MS NOW says something people have an issue with, there are people who want to trash the entire network. I appreciate the professional, reasonable voices that I hear and they should be encouraged before everything turns into right-wing garbage.

I don't watch as much cable news as I used to, but I still tune in to some of the programs that I really like. Meanwhile, I'm sure that come this evening, we'll hear some very critical reporting of that god-awful White House spectacle yesterday. MS NOW has some real journalists with experience and integrity.

Most of the hosts work hard at providing news, truth and thoughtful insight. I can't imagine getting my TV news anywhere else. The rest I fill in with all the great articles posted by all of you here on DU. Between you all and MSNOW, I am better informed than I want to be at times - LOL.

mostly I imagine what it would be like if it was taken away, and given that is a threat, I treasure it every day.

Hillary was being quite kind to describe them that way, imo.

Hillary was being quite kind to describe them that way, imo.

of necessity. She is not naive. Had she really gave the run down on their lying, ignorant, hypocritical, double standard proclivities, the press and far right machine would have powered up the hate against her campaign and reputation far more (if that was possible).

No, not kindness (they deserve known), just being careful.

They do their job and take their lumps. Ida B Wells, Edward R Murrow, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes come to mind.

And yes, it is every bit the sadistic, dangerous-as hell deplorable viewer "sport" as crowding the Coliseum to watch gladiators be torn apart in Roman times. Less bloody? Less predictably deadly? Yes. But the sadism is there.

It is one thing to watch violent sports for which precautions are taken to decrease or eliminate bodily harm and rules exist to ameliorate such risks. American football being, but one example. Even boxing has some rules built in around it, however inadequate. If you have ever seen the rare video of chimpanzees--the most aggressive of nonhuman primates- slaughtering each other, their bare feet kicking and destroying their enemies or even group-mates, you might be embarrassed to have ever defended the human equivalent. Jane Goodall found this devastating--no matter how rare among those chimps she studied over decades. I have to think she would feel similarly to me seeing humans behave similarly--for entertainment.

Different strokes for different folks, you say? Well, stay away from me if this is how you get your jollies. I see the aftermath in my ER and the crying family and friends when that brain damage is irreversible.

and it's appeal to him is caused by his malignant narcissism. It just another way he has spread his condition throughout the world to the people who are vulnerable. He thinks it's normal to be entertained by this stuff because he doesn't know he's sick.

It's disturbing when the media normalizes it.

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He's despicable and uncivilized. A real "puke."

Out in the open racism has become a thing again but that's no excuse for your bootlicking.

I haven't even heard the racist comments mentioned. From a news perspective, that is the news that broke during the event. It seems like it is being completely ignored by everyone, even the "liberal" news network.

Hearing that they ignored this was a shock 😲

come this evening. Daytime MS NOW is quite different from nighttime. It usually picks up with Nicolle Wallace and honestly, it has been like that for as long as I can remember, though the evening programming used to start later than today's Nicolle Wallace's show.

Though I rarely watch her show these days as I don't care to watch TV during the day anymore.

just like Trump's regime has nothing to do with real governance

Just an observation, no angry letters, please.

There is plenty of bad shit going down. Legalized gambling seems like the least of it, given its history -- periods of legalization followed by periods of prohibition. Sort of like booze.

People have always loved their sports, but the extreme obsessions seem to have gotten worse in recent years. There are some who are in a constant state of conflict - us vs. them mentality. It smells like a prologue to civil war.

it can cause violence and hate.

I wrote my state Congress Reps and suggested our state ban the UFC after that comment last night. Have to hit them in the wallet. Been almost a whole day and no apologies from anyone making money off of those fights. I’ll never watch the UFC again. They have not kicked that bigmouth out of the UFC yet?

We see it in so many parts of life these days. I remember a time when it was really quite rare, though the underlying causes such as racism and misogyny have been with us forever.

I know. it's early and I'll give it some time, but I really miss Ana Cabrera and Chris Jansing. Jacob Soboroff was great over the weekend. Hope I can stay awake to watch Velshi tonight. He's one of my favorites.

Wasn't impressed with Alicia Menendez new show, and Tur's seems to be about the same. The content is not current or original in my opinion. And they seem to be going along with the administration's efforts to portray trump as a "war president" attending the "lavish" cage fight and then jetting off to sign a peace deal while we slept. No mention of the racist comments, just following the script.

It seems there were very few challenges or blow back regarding Trump and his antics today. Ana and Chris always called him and his administration out. What are we going to do if MS NOW caves to this criminal cabal? We need them.

And attacking Michelle Obama was despicable and evil !

they kissed the tangerine’s crested, crusty ring at Lardo after his selection in 11/2024 their colors of allegiance showed. They are still beholding to the master of hurt fee fees and lawsuits.

Who needs the hassle. Folding is the route now in the media-scolding the toddler is out.

Didn’t watch. Didn’t want to in the first place. No interest whatsoever in garbage like that. ESPECIALLY when it’s brought to you by the Donald.

to their (Joe &’s) obsequious performance to dumpter at Mara Largo after the 2024 election. 😢😁

Rachel and Lawrence can easily find other venues, as Joy Reid was forced to do.

MSNBC announced on Monday that the progressive host Joy Reid was being fired from her weeknight show, with Alex Wagner also losing her prime-time nightly broadcast. Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart also lost their solo weekend shows, along with Ayman Mohyeldin, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s bombing of Gaza. A “bloodbath of non-white anchors”, as the Daily Beast termed it, as the move was widely criticized, including on MSNBC.
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The moves came two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission, led by the Donald Trump appointee and Project 2025 co-author Brendan Carr, launched an investigation into Comcast, MSNBC’s parent company over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, part of a broader policy which has seen Trump order an end to all DEI programs in federal government and also target the programs in schools and universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/02/msnbc-staff-changes

Elie Mystal: “I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y’all never would have heard of if not for her. And that’s why she’s gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.”

“Joy Reid represents another loss of amplifying Black and brown voices who will report news on stories that oftentimes go under the radar or under reported by mainstream journalists,” said Emmitt Riley, a professor of politics and African and African American studies at the University of the South and the president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

“When we think about what diversity truly means, it means that we bring a wide variety of perspectives to the table. And certainly a person’s life experiences with discrimination, their life experiences in terms of where they occupy certain positions of power or lack thereof, informs what stories they decide to amplify. And so we saw Joy covering a number of different stories that I think will go under the radar now.”

So judging them by that is meaningless. Whose show was it?

It starts to improve with Nicole Wallace's show. Then, the evening shows, starting with Chris Hayes, are worth watching. I think they've added another show that runs in that spot some weekdays, or maybe earlier, that is hosted ny Simone Sanders/Townshend , Michael Steele, and Luke Russert. Tonight, and every Monday night, Rachel Maddow follows. The rest of the week, Jen Psaki fills that spot, followed by Lawrence O'Donnell. And starting tonight, Ali Velshi has a new show after Lawrence.

What purpose does it serve to trash the only cable news station we have that is even remotely on our side based on their weakest daytime shows? Their prime time news hosts, the ones I mentioned above, are the only journalists on television I know of who DO regularly stand up to Trump.

I understand being pissed after seeing that chyron. I would have been, too. But that is why I don't watch their morning shows. That chyron was not representative of the network as a whole. Those evening shows I mentioned are worth watching. We need to support THEM, not toss them aside with the morning's worst. They are the only ones on television I know of who are EVER on our side, and we need them.

THAT is well-worth watching. So far, anyway. I hope that part of it is kept in place.

I haven't heard of any other major changes. The changes they did make were ones I appoved of and have just been completed.

They added the show with Simone, etc. They shaved an hour off Scarborough (yes!!!) to give Stephanie Ruhle a 2-hour early morning show that will focus on her specialty areas, business and finance, and how all the Trumpshit REALLY affects those areas. I think she wanted this, and will do well there. This freed up her late night spot to give Ali Velshi his own weeknight show, which he amply deserves. I think that starts tonight.

So...so far, so good... and I haven't heard of any other changes coming.

It’s better to leave it a lone and to just attribute it to another of the racist crap coming out of this administration!

Calm down and wait for the news.

at least individual hosts have. I haven't watched all day. I know Stephanie Rhule and Katie Tur both talked about it. Those are the only two shows I've seen bits of today.

They talked about who the fighter guy is. I had MSNOW on in the background. I am not sure what time it was when they played it - sometime this afternoon.

I agree with some other comments - MSNOW does a good job - better than all other broadcast options, IMHO. They have some anchors who shine and are the best of their profession. The chyrons are written by production staff. There were a lot of things wrong with that UFC spectacle, and being lavish was one of them...with all that is going on in the world.

At times today the event was lambasted by MSNOW because our tax dollars paid for it, and it was not free to the country. There were many things wrong with the event.

I do not believe MSNOW was avoiding specifics aspects of the UFC event that warrant analysis. They are covering a firehose of important stories.