And even he throws his hands in the air and despairs that a hack like Andrea Mitchell and a Ministry of Truth like MSNBC are taken seriously by any consumer of media.<\/a><\/p>\nWhen the history of our decent into a police state ruled by corrupt oligarch disseminating agitprop through a pliant media is written, a whole chapter will be devoted to MSNBC, right after the chapter on FOXNews.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026used to work for CBS. He brings an interesting perspective because he knows enough about the news biz to intelligently comment on when there\u2019s actual bias and when the Mark Twain Principle (Never attribute to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity) applies. And even he throws his hands in the air and despairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,36],"class_list":["post-36196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doings-on-other-blogs","tag-purveyors-of-beer-and-shampoo"],"yoast_head":"\n
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