{"id":1874,"date":"2008-09-08T04:20:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T04:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-09-08T04:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T04:28:39","slug":"the_media_folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"The Media Folds A Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/08\/business\/media\/08msnbc.html\" target=\"browser\">NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coverage of the election.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat experiment appears to be over.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend that the NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe change &#8211; which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle &#8211; is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perceived shift to the political left.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to be straight news programming,&#8221; said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122073072955107155.html\" target=\"browser\">Rasmussen<\/a> notes, the media is getting hammered by the public because of the perception that they are in the tank politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olbermann is demoted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}