SaintsInDome2006 said:
I think hilarity would ensue if some conservative took Squiz's tack and said Rachel Maddow wasn't actung as a real journalist or that msnbc was not a real news channel. Squiz's why don't you tee that one up and you can hear all the cons applaud you and you can beat back the progressive defenders of msnbc.all this should be quotable for future use when msnbc breaks stories like the Christie scandal. Should be a hoot.
I agree. It is a not a real news channel, nor is FOX IMO. As I said a few posts back, it is an opinion channel that incidentally also carries some news, but that doesn't make it a news channel. If you look at their promotional ads, they are not saying "Come here for the news," and they have never claimed to be "fair and balanced" or objective in their coverage.
I don't accept Sean Hannity as a real journalist, so if someone were make a similar claim about Maddow, I wouldn't agree, but would just shrug it off as their opinion and being similar to my opinion of Hannity.
And I seriously doubt that conservatives here would automatically accept a link to what MSNBC was reporting as undisputed fact (or at least they haven't in the past, as recently evidenced by the Christie scandals, as what has been reported by MSNBC has hardly been accepted as gospel around here).