MSNBC Admits Failure: Dropping Al Sharpton, Other Libs And “Moving Away From Left-Wing TV”
By Robert Gehl, February 23, 2015.
MSNBC’s experiment with “going left” has been a colossal failure and now network executives are trying to right the ship – by throwing all the leftist hosts overboard.
First, it was Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid’s horrible shows. Next will likely be Chris Hayes and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The MSNBC source told The Daily Beast, “Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, but now it doesn’t work anymore…The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.”
The station likely will keep Rachel Maddow – a darling of the left – but she may be the only one remaining.
In the longer term, these sources said, the Rev. Al Sharpton—a larger-than-life personality who attracts a 35 percent African-American audience but continues, after 3½ years of nightly practice, to wrestle with his Teleprompter—could eventually be moved from his weeknight 6 p.m. slot to a weekend time period, as MNSBC President Phil Griffin attempts to reverse significant viewership slides by accentuating straight news over left-leaning opinion.
“Everybody in the food chain from top to bottom understands that the Olbermann era is over,” said an MSNBC source, referring to the glory days during George W. Bush’s administration when incendiary liberal Keith Olbermann regularly attracted a million viewers—many of them seeking refuge from White House and Republican talking points.
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