MSNBC......for God's Sake, Stop It!

 Many of us who have closely followed MSNBC through the years were unsettled as to how Rachel and crew would pivot when the “Trump 2” thing happened. Reactive mocking of the bad choices of those “people of a lesser god” was, of course, always most likely.  Less  likely, MSNBC might have offer up unending doses of Adam, Chris and Ro, leading us to the back of the bus, while chanting “can’t we all just get along”. Neither strategy was likely to hold rating or help a nation in peril.  The entire MSM universe has literally exhausted the appeal of “structured polarization”, I.e. “mud-slinging”,  and not even “Nice Guy Lawrence” would agree to a back of the bus self-effacement. 

      An option would have been for MSNBC to do “deep dive exposes” into the domestic and foreign issues behind the days politics.  They could have done podcast like, story form, investigations  from unbiased first principle perspectives.  Yes, such a format might have driven away some of the extreme progressives used to living on “red meat reporting”, but the traditional MSNBC base has always just accommodated, with embarrassment, this faction, anyway.  It’s hard to accept that the MSM universe can’t support at least one news outlet that offers pure journalism.  If MSNBC were to try, at least the few of us, the remaining loyal, might expand our truths……rather than just feign approval for Trump insults.  Furthermore, many of us would, no doubt, send $100 a month so that our “screen friends” would  not have to continue  XXXXXXX ing themselves!