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2017-02-23 -Land of the Free

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski: It's 'Our Job' to 'Control Exactly What People Think'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-23 01:14|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Mika once again validates Libtardism's genetic link.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-23 01:59|| 2017-02-23 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Step 1: start thinking yourself.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-23 06:28|| 2017-02-23 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Your job is to sell Fake News(tm).

Time to end cable and satellite bundling was long ago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-23 07:07|| 2017-02-23 07:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Now did she say that this Trumpism happened "last night"...........in Sweden?

The Proggie Left is totalitarian at its core, something I like to dig at my lefty daughter in law about regularly.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-23 07:52|| 2017-02-23 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Nailed it in one, P2K.

Even Canada has a la carte cable now. There's no good reason for the U.S. not to have it.

The reason we don't is greed.

Forced bundling is officious rent-seeking, even welfare, by the infotainment industry. Without it more than half of cable networks would collapse. That means half the network presidents, vice presidents, CFOs, and the rest of the staff at all these would be out of a job overnight. The flush of job-seekers at these positions would also mean that the remaining solvent networks would be able to fire their current ones and hire someone at a much lower salary, decreasing the pay scale overall.

Everyone in the cable and infotainment industries knows this, knows that it is coming some day, and does all they can to put it off for as long as possible, hoping they can get to retirement before the hammer comes down.

We are being bilked for billions by a bunch of officious thugs who are not allowing creative destruction in their own industry in order to make a few more bucks - and not letting the market decide who should succeed or fail.

Apply the anti-trust laws. Apply RICO if necessary. If these networks can't make it without artificial and illegal things like bundling they don't deserve to exist at all, and neither do the paychecks associated with them.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-02-23 07:55|| 2017-02-23 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 If these networks can't make it without artificial and illegal things like bundling they don't deserve to exist at all....

That might also include our former Kenyan master's palletised Swiss Francs and Euros shipments to Iran.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-23 08:02|| 2017-02-23 08:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Another reason I am so happy I cut the cord years ago.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-23 09:10|| 2017-02-23 09:10|| Front Page Top

#8 psssssst.....

you suck at your job

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-02-23 10:40|| 2017-02-23 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 swksvolFF, how do you think she keeps her job.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-02-23 12:51|| 2017-02-23 12:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Yee-OUCH, #9 AA. :-D

Posted by Barbara 2017-02-23 15:29|| 2017-02-23 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 To quote my favorite Bruins announcer.............

And AA scores on a slap-shot from the point!!

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-23 16:35|| 2017-02-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

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