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NBC Purchases MSNBC Rights From Microsoft
flatt writes "Ending a sixteen year partnership between the now Comcast-owned NBCUniversal and Microsoft, the MSNBC.com website has been immediately renamed to NBCNews.com. Both parties note that the integration between both parties is deep and will require 2 years to complete the decoupling. For the immediate future, NBC will continue to provide news content for MSN.com and Microsoft will continue to be the advertising provider for the site. Content control, brand confusion, and partisan content are cited as reasons behind the breakup. Microsoft sold its 50% share in the MSNBC TV rights to NBC back in 2005."
They aren't, this is why the mainstream press is mostly right-wing, with a few exceptions being extreme right-wing. Don't confuse the not nearly as extreme right-wing for being left-wing.
Left-wing biased journalism is extraordinarily rare.
Nonsense. You very rarely hear serious critiques of American positions that are agreed to by Democrats and Republicans on ABC, CBS and NBC. There is a very narrow window of thought on those networks. Moreover they present Republican positions as if there were legitimate.
For example they present the economic debate domestically as just two ideas without presenting the fact that essentially 100% of economists agree with the Democratic / Keynesian position on stimulus. They present the Republican positions on Iran without every quoting high quality foreign sources that cover the regime like Al Ahram, Al Jazeera or Haaretz; or even European sources like the Times of London, Le Monde ...
MSNBC isn't objective, neither is CNBC, NBC aims to be objective.
CNBC covers financial news from the perspective of a the small stock / mutual fund investor. You'll rarely hear news on CNBC from the perspective of professionals or control investors.
MSNBC offers opinion journalism from the perspective of the left.
NBC tries as best as possible to offer traditional journalism, i.e. news from the perspective of the Washington rulership.
No, MSNBC isn't objective, but they're honest about their slant now. Good, I prefer it that way. Be up front about it. For all of the craven shilling MSNBC does for the left at times, they still have more integrity than NBC because they're honest about it. NBC doesn't "aim to be objective". NBC aims to cloak their biases under the blanket of objectivity, and increasingly, people aren't fooled.
The Brits had this figured out years ago in their press system. The Guardian doesn't pretend to be unbiased. Neither do the Telegraph or the Daily Mail. No one is unbiased. No one. Be upfront about your editorial slant, and readers (and viewers) are fine with that. You can have an admitted viewpoint and still do good reporting.
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