Reply #13: well, i keep up with ratings, to a small extent

[newsguyatl]

and i can tell ya that hardball's ratings have been on the rise.

as well, i believe he and his producers are really pushing his show's blog as way of connecting the two to get higher ratings... it's a very smart thing to do, and i believe the genius behind it is trippi.

i've tried to convince some at a certain, ahem, other network that you can't beat fox at their own game, so try and go the other way... but nope, they won't have it -- so if msnbc's smart, THEY'LL do it. and it'll pay off for them.

((now don't get me wrong, i'm not saying be a liberal fox -- that's not the case... i'm just saying, have more liberal shows, be FAIR in your coverage, and don't succumb to the "republican noise machine"... sounds fair enough eh? thing is we're so stooped in rightwing media right now, that a FAIR network, if it were to come along, would seem like a liberal oasis. so someone, at SOME point, is going to realize there's a HUGE audience out there to tap into for this, and it'll pay off BIG time for them))