Comments on: Kaplan: Scorecard http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/ Unvarnished news & opinion on cable news Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:58:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: tanne http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10373 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:46:19 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10373 Well, the people using this news as an excuse to bash MSNBC/Brian at TVNewser for failing to bash MSNBC himself is pretty predictable, I guess. It's just another excuse for the Fox Fan Club to hate on their two favorite hate objects: Keith Olbermann and his personal minion (ha), Brian Stelter... Well, the people using this news as an excuse to bash MSNBC/Brian at TVNewser for failing to bash MSNBC himself is pretty predictable, I guess. It’s just another excuse for the Fox Fan Club to hate on their two favorite hate objects: Keith Olbermann and his personal minion (ha), Brian Stelter…

]]> by: Dan http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10368 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:21:09 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10368 I agree with benllv - MSNBC is a complete disgrace. Of the 100 or so thousand who actually watch that network I would bet that most watch it for the same reason people slow down to look at a car wreck. I cannot fathom how GE continues to put up with the embarrassments that are MSNBC's two headline programs - Hardball (or as I call it, Spitball) and Olberman. I sold my stock in GE just two months after Olberman was launched. I agree with benllv - MSNBC is a complete disgrace. Of the 100 or so thousand who actually watch that network I would bet that most watch it for the same reason people slow down to look at a car wreck. I cannot fathom how GE continues to put up with the embarrassments that are MSNBC’s two headline programs - Hardball (or as I call it, Spitball) and Olberman. I sold my stock in GE just two months after Olberman was launched.

]]> by: benllv http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10359 Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:33:22 +0100 http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/06/07/kaplan-scorecard/#comment-10359 Rick Kaplan's grade is a huge F, and it's been baffling to experts all over the industry that he's remained in the job this long. TVNewser's sympathetic, uncritical coverage is also making people laugh, because anyone with half a brain knows that MSNBC is on its way out as a cable news network. The writing has been on the wall for a long, long time. You can't keep spinning miniscule "demo" numbers in your favor, eventually the truth comes to the forefront. For Rick Kaplan, his failure is just a microcosm of MSNBC's larger failure as a journalistic enterprise. Rick Kaplan’s grade is a huge F, and it’s been baffling to experts all over the industry that he’s remained in the job this long. TVNewser’s sympathetic, uncritical coverage is also making people laugh, because anyone with half a brain knows that MSNBC is on its way out as a cable news network. The writing has been on the wall for a long, long time.

You can’t keep spinning miniscule “demo” numbers in your favor, eventually the truth comes to the forefront. For Rick Kaplan, his failure is just a microcosm of MSNBC’s larger failure as a journalistic enterprise.

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