More MSNBC Retardation

So, ratings for Ashley Banfield's show have been slipping. No real surprise there, since when she's not under constant threat of being publicly shot by Iraqi goon squads or Taliban religious police, there's not really a reason to watch. Her show getting cut should be no great surprise to anyone with half a functioning brain cell.

But what, you ask, are they going to replace it with? You're gonna love this. They're replacing Banfield with the magazine show MSNBC Investigates, otherwise known as "boring weekend time filler that no one ever watches". So, they're going to swap a boring, low-rated, show with an even more boring, and lower rated, show. These MSNBC execs are freaking geniuses.

The article also mentions this little tidbit:

Maybe not so coincidentally, Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of General Electric, co-parent (with Microsoft) of MSNBC, expressed concern over the cable channel in a Friday interview on Fox News' "Your World With Neil Cavuto."

"MSNBC's ratings are not where we'd like them to be, and we're gonna take some actions to try and get 'em up there," Immelt said. "The standard right now is Fox, and I want to be as interesting and edgy" as the Fox News Channel."

Of course, America is just screaming for another network where the "news" consists of vapid blonds and mindless partisans apeing party idealogues. Yeah, two of those is definately not enough. And those experiments with "edgy" shows like Alan Keyes and Phil Donahue have worked so well for you guys! Let's fire Chris Matthews and Tim Russert while we're at it, and replace them with the God Squad. Or maybe a donkey pissing in a field for an hour a night. Yeah! Ratings gold, that is.

Sweet Jebus in Valhalla, I despise these people...

 

Posted by Captain Mojo at October 15, 2002 06:56 PM | TrackBack