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the_tyrant 07-15-12 10:06 PM
MSNBC is no more!
 
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/15/31...direct-nbcnews

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After more than 16 years, MSNBC.com is no more, now redirecting to NBCNews.com as Comcast acquires Microsoft’s 50 percent stake in the site. The New York Times reports that Comcast (which controls NBCUniversal) is giving Microsoft roughly $300 million in the deal, citing "people with knowledge of the transaction." MSNBC.com is said to be returning in 2013, as the online presence of the MSNBC cable channel.

Wow, I never knew that the MS in MSNBC stood for microsoft

Gargamel 07-15-12 11:19 PM
That was their whole selling point, M$ + NBC.

Article I ref stated ms will be pursuing their own news channel now.

wellsronald18 07-16-12 12:22 AM
OK, it means msnbc.com will reflect the homepage of NBCNews.com.

JU_88 07-16-12 03:54 AM
Great, now you just need to get rid of Fox and CNN and you might actually get some real news without some buffoon telling you what to think. :)

Rockstar 07-16-12 06:40 AM
Hey, I believe what the those buffoons tell me because its exactly what I want to hear. :)

August 07-16-12 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1910097)
Great, now you just need to get rid of Fox and CNN and you might actually get some real news without some buffoon telling you what to think. :)

Obviously Sir you have never watched CBS, NBC or ABC.

the_tyrant 07-16-12 07:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Gargamel (Post 1910056)
That was their whole selling point, M$ + NBC.
That is kindof odd, considering that microsoft also has msn.com that does news (along with a lot of other things).

Also, I kindof find it odd also that MSNBC seemed to be biased against Microsoft when it comes to tech related news.

Takeda Shingen 07-16-12 09:38 AM
Micro$oft pulled out of the MSNBC TV partnership years ago. All that happened here is that they sold the domain name. MSNBC isn't going off the air guys.

nikimcbee 07-16-12 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 1910128)
Obviously Sir you have never watched CBS, NBC or ABC.
I'd cheer more if they went under.

JU_88 07-16-12 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 1910128)
Obviously Sir you have never watched CBS, NBC or ABC.
I'll take your word for it. For the record our own BBC isnt that much better in terms of censorship, but at least they dont try to spoon feed us their opinions quite so much.

August 07-16-12 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1910276)
I'll take your word for it. For the record our own BBC isnt that much better in terms of censorship, but at least they dont try to spoon feed us their opinions quite so much.
:) Our news media rarely censors anything but they'll almost always tell you how you should view it.

JU_88 07-16-12 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 1910310)
:) Our news media rarely censors anything but they'll almost always tell you how you should view it.
Not so much censorship, but bias in form of selective journalism, like when several thousand military personel and veterans marched on Washington DC in support off Ron Paul a while back, of course nobody covers it because he was the 'unpopular' candidate.
That kind of thing, would have been fine if there were bigger GOP related stories to cover on the particular day, but there were not.
Its not that everything they report is a lie by any means, but you know how it is, best swallowed with pinch of salt and all that.

August 07-16-12 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1910374)
Not so much censorship, but bias in form of selective journalism, like when several thousand military personel and veterans marched on Washington DC in support off Ron Paul a while back, of course nobody covers it because he was the 'unpopular' candidate.
Who told you that it wasn't covered JU? This was last winter, right? Maybe the news didn't reach England but I definitely remember hearing about it from several local media sources at the time.

Maybe it didn't make the big splash you think it should have because it was not the thousands that you claim but rather just a few hundred. That's ain't very impressive by Washington standards.

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Its not that everything they report is a lie by any means, but you know how it is, best swallowed with pinch of salt and all that.
I agree, and that includes claims by Ron Paul supporters apparently! :)

JU_88 07-17-12 03:11 AM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 1910405)
Maybe it didn't make the big splash you think it should have because it was not the thousands that you claim but rather just a few hundred. That's ain't very impressive by Washington standards.:)
We are both off the mark, It was 'over a Thousand' I just looked it up :03:

August 07-17-12 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by JU_88 (Post 1910474)
We are both off the mark, It was 'over a Thousand' I just looked it up :03:
Now remove the non-vet Ron Paul supporters tagging along and you have just a few hundred "veterans".


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