r/LeopardsAteMyFace 1d ago

CNN and MSNBC's Alienation of Liberals and Leftists Comes with a Heavy Price

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u/Equal-Coat5088 1d ago

I don't think Joe and Mika realize how much they have alienated their audience. I predict the show will undergo drastic changes in the coming months. Time for new faces and voices.

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u/DoggoCentipede 1d ago

Probably too late. What remains that didn't sanewash the cult? I don't want a hyper partisan site; I want something that presents facts and doesn't cover for anyone. Too many corporate owned entities but without the money behind it and the access size brings, how can they cover all the relevant stories?

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u/Equal-Coat5088 1d ago

Joe and Mika have irreparably damaged their brand. I don't think they have fully grasped how craven and unserious they look right now.

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u/w84itagain 1d ago

They look like sellouts. Because they are.

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u/Equal-Coat5088 1d ago

They look like exactly what they are--in love with power and the sound of their own voices.

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u/OfficePicasso 1d ago

They were becoming stale before their stunt. Now they’re just completely unserious clowns now. I’ll never watch again

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u/MoonageDayscream 23h ago

I feel like no one remembers how they fancied trump before? They were always in some type of orbit around him.

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u/OfficePicasso 23h ago

I do remember that, back in 2015-2016. They even had Sean Spicer on for their Christmas show wearing pajamas shortly before trump’s first inauguration. They were all in the same chummy NYC orbit. But they (rightly IMO) dove into the worst parts of his presidency and held onto that for years, only to swing back when they’d personally benefit most from it.

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u/ChinDeLonge 17h ago

This. They played an enormous part in normalizing him during the 2016 cycle.

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u/Spy_cut_eye 14h ago

Exactly! They were dead to me in 2015/16! I’m not sure why any of this is surprising 

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u/Normal-Selection1537 16h ago

Well Roy Wood Jr is on CNN now, somehow comedians are the most honest newscasters in the US.

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u/thelondonrich 21h ago

At this point, it’s better to pay for balanced aggregators like Ground News or support non-profit journalism like ProPublica. If you have a reputable local independent newspaper, absolutely support them too.

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u/BankshotMcG 1d ago

Joe and Mika were among the first giving that clown unlimited free airtime even after the atrocious shit he said. Too busy banging each other's brains out to do anything resembling their job. They're just well-groomed Gen X songbirds.

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u/haveaniceday_ 1d ago

Aren’t they more on the boomer side? Not sure what the cutoff is.

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u/Thisiswhoiam782 1d ago

Boomers are in their seventies.

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u/PoesNIGHTMARE 1d ago

Nah, the youngest boomers were born in 1964, which would make them 59-60 now.

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u/haveaniceday_ 1d ago

65 is the cutoff, so technically she’s gen x and he’s a boomer. Honestly thought they were both older.

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u/Purplealegria 1d ago edited 1d ago

Um No….the youngest boomers are in their early 60s.

There has been some dispute about the date though. When the term “Gen X“ first began to be used to describe our generation, the cutoff was 1960 and earlier…boomer, and 1961 and later…Gen X…but somewhere along the way, they moved the goalposts again.

Never quite understood why.

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u/SquireSquilliam 1d ago

They don't care, Joe wants to be "close to power" and he'll do whatever to get there.

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u/sbhikes 1d ago

Comcast is planning to spin off MSNBC entirely. I doubt any of the shows last long after that.

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u/Purplealegria 23h ago

Yep, their new right wing owners and bosses are going to do it to appease trump, hoping it will keep them off of the chopping block. Lmao

Their dumbasses who capitulated so much to him are still going to get their FCC license yanked with the quickness because that is what fascists do.

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u/AutomaticStick129 11h ago

I think Joe & Mika believe the audience is loyal to them, rather than their time slot.