"Never kick a man when he's down" is a reminder not to exploit or pile on someone who’s already struggling or in a weakened state, and doing so is both unfair and lacking in basic decency.
While I generally subscribe to the idiom, if we switch it up a bit to "Never kick a TDS-riddled, miserably- failed 'news' outlet when it's down," I'm out — principally because the outlet in question is itself grossly unfair, hopelessly biased, and lacking in common decency.
On Monday, embattled MSNBC took its first step toward total independence from NBC News, as the long-planned divorce began to take shape.
In November, Comcast officially announced it would spin off several NBCUniversal cable networks, including MSNBC, in a move that promises to shake up the Trump-loathing network, which will no longer be affiliated with NBC News — with the Peacock itself not exactly being a beacon of journalistic objectivity.
In the intermediate term, MSNBC’s broadcasts may look the same to viewers, but behind the scenes, the network, now owned by Versant, has quietly stopped using NBC News correspondents for both domestic and international reporting.
And in an internal memo obtained by TVNewser, Brian Carovillano, Versant’s senior vice president of standards and editorial partnerships for news, outlined new guidelines, known internally as "ten core principles," that MSNBC (MS NOW) will adopt.
Before we continue, I meant what I said in the headline with respect to laughing.
Anyone who has watched the TDS-riddled likes of Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes, Jen Psaki — the list goes on — and now reads the new "ten core principles," and then contrasts those principles with the aforementioned list of Democrat Party sock puppets will surely laugh out loud — or at least laugh heartily to themselves.
Let's jump into those "core principles," shall we? As reported by AdWeek, they include:
Accuracy, fairness, and opinion, which ... should be based on “accurate, reported facts.” Meanwhile, the news network will put an emphasis on sources that can be identified by name. If a source needs to remain anonymous, the knowledge must be firsthand, and the network must be transparent about why the source is remaining anonymous.
OK, the part about anonymous sources, if followed, should be embraced by all media.
But, expecting MSNBC, of all outlets, to embrace accuracy and fairness, much less accurate, reported facts — including in on-air opinions — sounds like a helluva stretch from the current reality of the troubled network; particularly given the proclivities of the on-air "talent" I listed.
Next up, Carovillano said other core principles include the enhancement of "actual journalism," embracing a variety of perspectives and transparency, and... wait for it... remaining independent and not influenced — presumably by the left, as has been the case since MSNBC's inception.
Finally, Carovillano said MSNBC "journalists" need to hold themselves to the same high standards “of professional and journalistic integrity in their outside appearances and on their personal social media.”
Color me skeptical, but I'll believe it when (if) I see it.
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Meanwhile, CNN — the ridiculously self-proclaimed "most trusted name in news" continues to do what it's always done in the Age of Trump. And as we all know, if you If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. In CNN's case, that's continuing to watch your ratings swirl down the toilet.
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