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*Co-host of MSNBC’s daytime show “The Cycle” Touré joined HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill Thursday and defended his network’s all-white primetime lineup. The cable news industry has come under criticism for its lack of diversity generally, and within primetime in particular. Though MSNBC has several African-American hosts, none of them anchor primetime shows. But [...]
*West Hollywood artist Bronwyn Lundberg has a new piece she has just unveiled and it comes with much controversy but Lundberg is not surprised by the criticisms nor the praises she has received for her work of art, reports The Guardian. Art no matter the subject or artist has received criticism throughout history. Every art piece has gone through [...]
*The intellectual television market has been cornered on MSNBC. They have an impressive roster on their evening line-up that include veteran journalists with not so shabby educational backgrounds. One example is Rachel Maddow, who is a Rhodes Scholar. She is so smart that she had the good common sense to bring on a young scholar [...]
*The Republican race for the next presidential candidate is looking like a real Ringling Bros. production. The candidates have the most ludicrous foundations for their campaigns and are so openly racist it’s sickening. Newt Gingrich was the topic of conversation Tuesday night with remarks he made against President Obama calling him the “food stamp President” [...]
*MSNBC president Phil Griffin was asked about the status of Al Sharpton as the anchor of the network’s 6 o’clock hour. There had been rumors that a deal was made for Sharpton to replace Cenk Uygur at 6 p.m. Griffin noted that Sharpton was doing well in the timeslot, but said nothing is permanent as [...]
*MSNBC today launches the second phase of its brand campaign under the slogan “Lean Forward” with commercial spots directed by Spike Lee. Several of the ads star the network’s primetime hosts – Chris Matthews, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz, but the campaign also includes general ads. [Watch several below.] Oscar-nominated Matthew Libatique (“Black [...]
*President Obama met for lunch on Thursday with Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC and other progressive columnists to discuss a number of issues, chief among them the oil spill in the Gulf. According to the Huffington Post, attendees also included Gail Collins of the New York Times and Gerald Seib, [...]
*Two weeks ago Dr. Rand Paul, an ophthalmologist and the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Kentucky, appeared on the Rachel Maddow show to clarify statements he had made, which seemed to suggest that he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For 20 minutes Paul and Maddow engaged in a less-than-graceful pas de [...]
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