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Bozell Statement: NBC News Recognizes the MSNBC Brand Is a Malignant Tumor

By Brent Bozell | July 16, 2012 | 11:09

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Microsoft’s ill-advised marriage of convenience to NBC News has finally landed in divorce court, and it couldn’t have happened soon enough. Like any marriage built on a lie – in this case that MSNBC would be a legitimate news organization – it was doomed to fail.

The MSNBC brand is a tumor, corrupting everything it touches, and it’s good to see that Microsoft is finally cutting it off. Even though Microsoft untethered itself from MSNBC TV in 2005, MSNBC.com was still a stain on one of the most valuable, respected corporations in American history.


Since the cable network's inception in 1996, our Media Research Center analysts have worked diligently to track and expose MSNBC's bizarre descent into madness where the news is contorted into some sort of liberal fever dream. From Keith Olbermann's anti-American hot air and Ed Schultz’s  'right-wing slut' attack and urge to 'rip out' Dick Cheney's new heart, to the most recent rantings of Al Sharpton to incite racial violence in the Trayvon Martin shooting and Andrea Mitchell’s attempt to fabricate a “super market scanner moment” for Mitt Romney, MSNBC has sent journalism back to the partisan hackery of the 18th century.

MSNBC's embarrassing mockery of the news and deliberate refusal to Tell the Truth has tainted the NBC News brand with a layer of stink so thick it could take generations to cleanse. Is it any wonder that a titan of industry like Microsoft would want to distance its valuable brand from MSNBC's radioactive stench?

Maybe, just maybe, Comcast has finally suffered enough embarrassment thanks to its NBC News and MSNBC divisions to muzzle their frothing, rabid liberal attack dogs and go back to reporting the news.

Of course with former NPR President & CEO Vivian Schiller at the helm of NBCNews.com, that’s hard to imagine.

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Submitted by dan iroticiv on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 11:33am.

Sorry, but am I missing something? Divorce Court? What does that mean? Sorry the article sounds like an editorial, we all know msnbc is corrupt. However, what exactly is the news here.

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They have split

Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:00pm.

Here ya go Dan.

That a brand like MicroSoft is distancing itself from MSNBC is testament to the awful bias of that bunch as chronicled here.

"I don't like repeat offenders, I like dead offenders". - Ted Nugent
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Truth

Submitted by bmacdmac on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:13pm.

Sadly we'll never know the whole truth. Was it Comcast, was it MS or was it NBC? I'm thinking Comcast pulled the plug. NBC at one time had real news but when two lefties get together it produces a rag and that rag has ratings so low that even secondary channels give the a run for their money.

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Maybe, just maybe, there is

Submitted by Charlie2Base on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:13pm.

Maybe, just maybe, there is hope. I envision a world in which my grandchildren say, "Grunchie, tell us about the evil Emis Enby Sea and all the people who were swallowed up in the Mayan cataclysm of 2012."

wa ha ha

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Hmmm

Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 2:04pm.

That's pretty trippy, Charlie.

 

 

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MS has had nothing to do with the TV side for a long time

Submitted by kch50428 on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:25pm.

Now they're divorcing the Web side too...

Used to be MSNBC was a refreshing alternative to CNN... with very tech oriented shows, smatterings of straight news, and little partisan politics. If only they could be that again.

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Yeah, I guess the MS will be replaced by

Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 1:22pm.

BSNBC-or just FUNBC!

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My mistake

Submitted by StarAZ on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 2:02pm.

I read that as FUN BC. I don't watch anymore, but I can find out over here if there is any change or new body part tingles.

 

 

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I disagree, Brent

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 2:51pm.

I don't think NBC recognizes MSNBC as a tumor, but MicroSoft seems to have some smarts.

Brian Williams isn't any more credible than Al Sharpton or Chris Matthews.

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tru dat cool

Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 3:46pm.

A fish don't know it's wet.

Thick as thieves

Birds of a feather flock together.

NBC is MSNBC is NBC etc...

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CBS article says it all...

Submitted by Stan T on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 4:12pm.

we're told it was mutual, but then i read this in the middle of the article by CBSnews.

"The buyout cost Microsoft $300 million, the New York Times reports, citing anonymous sources. The software giant initially invested $220 million in the partnership and has lost over $10 billion in the last seven years, according to the Associated Press."

I'd say MSNBC is losing more money than they admit to, if Microsoft has lost more than a billion dollars a year on MSNBC.

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M$

Submitted by g55rumpy on Mon, 07/16/2012 - 6:22pm.

microsoft is a virus! and they are going to start their own "news" service

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