Andrew Lack, current head of MSNBC news, is doing everything he can do to make MSNBC a CNN look alike or worse. I suggest y’all read this article, the title of which is telling:
With Trump in the White House, MSNBC is resisting the resistance.
www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Lack has a not at all shy agenda which is put forth quite directly in this article. He has already gone along way with his agenda, firing much of the day time staff of MSNBC, and in the process getting rid of most of the diversity of the MSNBC bench---which is now possibly whiter than CNN or FOX.
And his bringing on Nicolle Wallace, Meagan Kelly and possibly, oh gag me with a spoon Hugh Hewitt for his own show on MSNBC.
New York magazine reported hours later that conservative activist and radio host Hugh Hewitt, already a regular contributor to MSNBC, was in talks with the network about a weekend show.
From outside, it might seem odd to see the premier liberal network veering right, even as liberals around the country are fired up to resist the administration of President Donald Trump.
But from inside, the news about Wallace and Hewitt was seen as just two more steps toward the full execution of the vision of Andy Lack, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC. He has made quite clear his plan to move the cable news network away from its bedrock liberalism and toward a more centrist approach personified by Brian Williams — even including hosts of a conservative bent, as typified by hosts like Megyn Kelly or Greta Van Susteren, who Lack brought over from Fox News.
But, Andy Lack has a problem. The current night time line up at MSNBC is seeing soaring ratings.
“Hayes, Maddow, O’Donnell ― the entire primetime lineup is doing record numbers and Lack can’t stand it. It makes him furious,” said one senior MSNBC source, echoing the sentiment of many other insiders who spoke to HuffPost only on the condition of anonymity.
The MSNBC top talent is starting to bring the feud into the open, as was clear tonight in the toss off from Rachel to Lawrence, when he congratulated her for being the now #1 in her cable news time slot, and himself #2. It was not subtle, if you have read this article. O’Donnell’s contract is soon up for renewal. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, Greta Van Susteren’s ratings are in comparison, crap. Andrew Lack is responsible for bringing Van Susteren to MSNBC, as he was also responsible for that train wreck/unwatchable most boring show of last year, when politics was on fire, in a plumb time slot, that featured Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, can’t remember the name of it and don’t care, nor does anyone else. Oh the wasted eyeballs.
Oh and another interesting stat in this article, Joy Reid who was passed up for the prime time slot that Van Susteren got in a greased slide from Lack, now gets a greater share on Saturday morning MSNBC than Morning Joe. MSNBC spokesperson says you can’t “compare apples and oranges. Indeed.
And I personally think Van Susteren sucks. Don’t care about her politics so much, as I think her show is totally boring. She lacks any sort or dynamic. She is another Halperin/Heilemann attempt by Andrew Lack to bore us all into submission.
Every hour that Andy has not touched are the strongest hours on the network. Everything he has touched is lower rated.
Some of you may just give a pfffffft to cable news in general, and that’s OK. But for some of the rest of us, we don’t want to do without the night time line up on MSNBC, particularly Rachel. Right wing news/talk rules almost the ENTIRE radio world, and much of the TV news world on FOX. CNN is FOX lite, maybe even worse for it's on going pablum. MSNBC, at least in prime time, is our only spot on TV news, and I think it’s important to fight Andrew Lack.
I have given you here just a taste of so much more that’s in this in depth article. PLEASE read it. Also, there is a link in this article to let MSNBC know how you feel about all this. I was not able to re-produce it here.