Now That The Weekend Is Over MSNBComcast Will Once Again......

[global1]

be the knight in shining armor for the embattled people of Wisconsin. The prison shows will end and they will begin their so-called news again.

I just don't understand it. How can MSNBComcast call themselves a news organization when for the most part stop their news programming over the weekend?

Did the Wisconsin protests end over the weekend? Did the violence stop in Libya? Did the people of Egypt take the weekend off from fighting for their rights to freedom and democracy?

Don't get me wrong when MSNBComcast gets on such stories they do a reasonably good job - but why do they stop for weekends? I don't know who controls the programming over there - but we or at least I would like to see the same level of reporting the news 24/7 from them.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Currrrrent... Currrrrent... Currrrrent... Currrrrent...

May can't come soon enough.

NGU.

[gateley]

2. They don't call themselves a news organization, per se, not like Fox News.

They used to say "the place for politics" now they've got the "lean forward" tag -- but no mention of "news".

I have the same complaint as you, though. Do you know if they broke and did live coverage about Libya yesterday? Just curious.

[global1]

3. If They Did - It's Their Loss.....

as they've conditioned me not to watch them over the weekends.

If I ran MSNBComcast - I'd make a concerted effort to be a 24/7 news organization and shout it out all over to get people to change their habits to take them in all the time.

It also gripes me that some of their featured shows - like Rachel and Ed - aren't rerun in the late night on Fridays.

My schedule of Fridays is such that I miss the first run of these programs - and I'm available to take them in when I finally settle in late Friday night or in the wee hours of Saturday. But again MSNBComcast puts on the prison shows. I just can't figure out why they do that?

[gateley]

16. They miss a whole market over the weekend - those of us who

want News - but maybe Lockup brings in more revenue? If that's the case and it helps "support" Rachel, Ed and the others, then I guess that's a valid reason. But who knows if that's the reason? :shrug:

They DID come on w/Egypt coverage, but still not 24/7 like CNN, and certainly not like AJE!

[OHdem10]

4. Common Sense should tell both MSNBC and CNN that lack

of decent programing on the weekend sets them up for
lower ratings all aroung/

Why do the Networks try to put up great programing just
before the evening news? For example, having Oprah means
many of her viewers will just keep the channel for the
evening news. More viewers.

CNN will play a Documentary over and over on the weekend.
The News they do show is so laid back, eyes glaze over.

MSNBC play those darn prison documentaries over.

My point is they hand the ratings to Fox. Fox being
the only place with live programming continuously on weekend
people just do not change the channel just because it is
Monday.

Yes, it costs money. But there is an old Maxim--you must
spend money to make money.

[rucky]

5. seriously. at least send in the "b-team"

like local news does.

[lonestarnot]

6. Ah who gives a fuck about the news. Just full of horseshit anyway.

;)

[Myrina]

7. "Knight in shining armor"? You mean Joe Scar and Matthews?

Both of whom basically called for unions to be made illegal? :shrug:

[Maraya1969]

9. I can't believe Matthew's would say that or believe it. He has been

moving left ever since I started watching him.

[Vinnie From Indy]

8. Your first mistake is believing that NBC News or MSNBC are actually news organizations

Our national media has become merely the PR wing of the oligarchy that runs this country. In short, what you get fed at these "news" outlets is misdirection, ommission, propaganda and lies sprinkled with weather reports and sports scores.

[Malikshah]

10. I disagree. Flipped on Jansing tripe and had the distaste of seeing a panel

of vile lie-spewing shills attack the unions. Even the "democratic" voice was useless. Wish it was a call in show. They were not using facts, they were out and out lying.

[DireStrike]

12. Yeah that's the one I saw. The second woman was the "democratic" one? She was the WORST.

It was non-stop union bashing!

I can't find a feedback option for Jansing and co.

[Malikshah]

15. Jansing is no journalist. The third one also had "journalist" as a title-- yet

another egregious error.

Shame on each and every one of those miscreants.

[DireStrike]

11. I don't think they're gonna do even that much. I just watched..

There was a segment on Wisconsin, I tuned in right after the start so I didn't know who the commentators were.

The host says, "Is this just union busting?" I'm like WOW WTF! I didn't know you were even allowed to say that on the teevee. Gotta keep it on the D/L. No worries, as the guy responded, basically, "nah."

So I assumed this guy was just the right winger, and the lefty would speak next. This woman basically agrees with him, says that we need to look at the workers' pay and benefits, and just for good measure bashes teachers' unions for opposing merit pay and other things that "just make sense!"

Well, maybe the third person would offer some balance. Nope, the gist of her commentary was "this is a moment for the country to reevaluate the pay and benefits of public workers."


There are tens of thousands of people in Wisconsin protesting. You would think they could find ONE person on the side of the protesters.

[shimmergal]

13. Somebody in charge of MSNBC's

programming must have really weird ideas about what people want to watch.

Remember when they had all those entrapment shows where they'd show some poor schmuck arranging a liaison with a woman pretending to be an underage girl? He'd come to meet her and then..pow! Instant disgrace and, they hoped, a prison sentence.

This got stopped, I think because of legal problems with the entrapment and private law enforcement efforts, and then they switched to those prison exposes. They run the same shows over and over again, and there's no attempt to explore any of the real issues like our high rate of imprisonment, just a sort of tabloid publicity about how awful the places are.

I can't imagine who watches them. If they want to program "on the dark side," why not do some vampire and werewolf stories, which are "in" in popular culture right now?

[WCGreen]

14. I think the prison stuff will soon disappear since it was all to scare

people into perpetuating the containment of the lower classes...

GE was heavily invested in "private" prisons.