Delilah Bath
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

Not sure how this is relevant without access to the numbers, which aren’t referenced, so the audience engagement argument doesn’t hold much for me as a reader.

MSNBC fired Phil Donohue regardless of ratings, because he wanted to have an equal number of guests on who did not support the Iraq war. Ref: Jeff Cohen, Cable News Confidential; more:

Also, they fired Ashleigh Banfield after she began to have the same views.

Making this about ratings ignores the history of the network.

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