To say that some employees at MSNBC, or as I like to call it PMSDNC, are panicking over the thought that the outlet could be sold is well founded, especially if Elon Musk buys it. Unemployment numbers would soar. Even if Musk doesn’t buy it and someone else does, the first priority is to increase their ratings and that will never happen as long as Joy Reid and various other hosts remain at the station. A new owner would not want to alienate over half of the country.
Republican strategist Scott Jennings called out CNN panelists who are shaking in their boots about Elon Musk buying MSNBC. I don’t think that would happen because I believe Musk really wants to remain with HOGE so he can help reduce the federal budget. If he buys MSNBC he would probably have to step down and besides he would not want to take over the bloated contracts for people he would want to send packing, which could be everyone but Scott Jennings.
Jennings asked:
“I mean, is the concern that certain media outlets would become propaganda arms of political ideologies? I mean, don’t we already have that in this country at a large scale? I mean, also, I hear what you’re saying about X. I saw a survey this week, it’s now the most ideologically balanced user platform of any platform.”
WATCH:
“Oh, come on. Scott, stop. It’s too early. I just sat down. Can I —” former ESPN host Cari Champion interrupted, with Jennings responding, “You’re going to be embarrassed when I tweet that after the show, but it’s true.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELCornish responded after another back-and-forth between Jennings and Champion:
“Can I re-frame it a different way? Because the site changed radically, right? So whether you think the voices that are — it is somehow more balanced now, that’s fine. But no doubt, Musk’s influence is profound and that you open it up and now you’re there with his opinion, and he is now part of this administration. So does anyone else think that there should be this greater concern about billionaires purchasing media companies?”
Do you remember liberals complaining about billionaire Jeff Bezos when he bought the Washington Post because I sure don’t.
CNN Data Reporter Harry Enten noted in a Nov. 19 segment on the network that roughly half of both Democrats and Republicans used X to follow news.
“Would you be worried if Bill Gates controlled MSNBC?” Geraghty asked Champion, who responded, “No, because he’s sane.”
“Because ‘MS’ in MSNBC comes from Microsoft,” Geraghty responded. “It was a partnership between Microsoft and NBC way back in the 1990s, back when Microsoft was under investigation by Bill Clinton’s [Department of Justice] for monopoly. I don’t remember anybody panicking over MSNBC back then.”
After Cornish pointed out the media landscape was shifting in the 1990s, Jennings responded that the real issue was liberals losing “control” of “institutional information distribution.”
“But isn’t the issue that the left has gotten so used to controlling almost all institutional information distribution arms in this country that when one little piece of it, whether it’s X or MSNBC or anything else gets taken away, the panic is so outrageous?” Jennings asked Cornish. “I mean, that’s how used to the left is, is having control of all of it.”
