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-Land of the Free
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski: It's 'Our Job' to 'Control Exactly What People Think'
2017-02-23
[PJ] During a discussion on the MSNBC show "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning, a liberal TV host let slip her view of what the media's "job" is, and it isn't "to report the news."

In a discussion about fears that President Donald Trump is "trying to control the media," co-host Mika Brzezinski complained that Trump is trying to do her job. Namely, to "actually control exactly what people think."

"Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts," Brzezinski said. "And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much so that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job." (emphasis added)

To be fair, Brzezinski later tried to clarify her remarks: "Today I said it's the media's job to keep President Trump from making up his own facts, NOT that it's our job to control what people think."
Posted by:Besoeker

#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  

#10  Yee-OUCH, #9 AA. :-D
Posted by: Barbara   2017-02-23 15:29  

#9  swksvolFF, how do you think she keeps her job.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2017-02-23 12:51  

#8  psssssst.....

you suck at your job
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-02-23 10:40  

#7  Another reason I am so happy I cut the cord years ago.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-23 09:10  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#2  Step 1: start thinking yourself.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-23 06:28  

#1  Mika once again validates Libtardism's genetic link.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-23 01:59  

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