BROADCAST BIAS: MS NOW marks 3 decades of empowering Democrats, not American democracy

MSNBC debuted connected cablegram tv connected July 15, 1996, and now, MS NOW is weirdly putting connected the surface a solemnisation of MS NOW’s 30th anniversary, erstwhile it conscionable changed the moniker past November. An announcer proclaims: "Celebrating 30 years… Delivering journalism that informs, empowers and strengthens our democracy."

When it began, it truly came crossed arsenic an NBC News workplace team. "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw was inactive arrogant to beryllium associated with it. On Oct. 29, 1996, Brokaw interviewed erstwhile Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev connected the amusement "InterNight," hailing him arsenic a "courageous, far-seeking prophet" who ended the Soviet Union. Brokaw adjacent gushed: "Perhaps 1 time again we'll spot you successful governmental bureau successful Russia. We cognize that you've devoted your beingness to bid and to changing your state and those of america who person gotten to cognize you number ourselves among the privileged."

MSNBC successful the aboriginal days was overmuch much ideologically divers than it is now, with blimpish hosts similar person Alan Keyes, Laura Ingraham and that feline who hosted "Scarborough Country," who present hosts its left-wing version, "Morning Joe." Pat Buchanan and wide Bill Press had a "Crossfire"-style show.

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MSNBC hated the Iraq War and loved the protesters. Reporter David Shuster announced to "Hardball" big Chris Matthews successful 2003: "The size of the demonstrators, astatine slightest here, astatine slightest successful Europe, seems to underscore, Chris, that determination are present possibly 2 satellite superpowers. There’s the United States and past determination are those millions of radical who took to the streets opposing U.S. policy."

MSNBC big Rachel Maddow pressed erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris connected her presumption that Pete Buttigieg was excessively large a hazard to take arsenic her moving mate connected Sept. 22, 2025. (MSNBC/RachelMaddowShow)

The displacement to the near became defined by rants from hosts Keith Olbermann and Matthews. Olbermann routinely accused George W. Bush of fascism, and loved to interrogation erstwhile Watergate co-conspirator John Dean, similar this 1 successful 2006 astir Dean’s publication "Conservatives Without Conscience": "It deals with intelligence principles that are frightening and that whitethorn person faced different nations astatine different times, successful Germany and Italy successful the ‘30s coming to caput successful particular. But what—how does it use now? And to what grade should it scare us?" He added, "What benignant of information — are we facing a morganatic menace to the conception of ideology successful this country?"

In 2008, Olbermann famously yelled astatine the camera astatine President Bush to "shut the hellhole up."

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This is wherefore it remains eternally amusing that successful 2008, erstwhile Matthews uttered what mightiness beryllium the quintessential MSNBC moment, that Obama’s code gave him a "thrill up my leg," Olbermann responded with, "Steady." Matthews insisted helium was serious: "He speaks astir America successful a mode that has thing to bash with politics. It has to bash with the feeling we person astir our country. And that is an nonsubjective assessment."

Matthews stuck to his thrills done the Obama presidency, similar this silliness successful 2015: "He’s done everything right. He’s been immaculate successful the presidency. Nobody has accused him of immoderate corruption. His kids are perfect. His woman is perfect. He’s done everything that these right-wing, achromatic conservatives accidental we’re expected to beryllium successful this country. He’s done everything right."

When it was clip for Hillary Clinton to beryllium president successful 2016, "AM Joy" big Joy Reid was the cheerleader: "If you look astatine Hillary Clinton’s qualifications, I mean, my God, since the Founding Fathers, has anyone tried to tally for president with much connected their resume?" Longtime NBC newsman Andrea Mitchell replied: "John Quincy Adams, maybe." Reid: "I mean you person to spell backmost virtually to the 18th period to find idiosyncratic with a much packed resume than Hillary Clinton."

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When Hillary lost, MSNBC prima Rachel Maddow extolled Obama’s legacy: "I deliberation he’ll spell down successful past arsenic some a consequential and fantabulous president, viewed from the opening of the state until now. I deliberation that his economical grounds alone, successful presumption of redeeming america from the Great Depression, if that’s the lone happening you knew, adjacent if helium hadn’t been the archetypal African-American president doing it, that unsocial volition enactment him successful the apical 10 presidents successful U.S. history."

This is wherefore it remains eternally amusing that successful 2008, erstwhile Matthews uttered what mightiness beryllium the quintessential MSNBC moment, that Obama’s code gave him a "thrill up my leg," Olbermann responded with, "Steady."

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Maddow is besides the person successful Trump the Dictator analogies, exemplifying the never-ending Democracy Dies successful Darkness code of "MSDNC." Last August, she warned: "Life successful the United States is profoundly changing. It’s profoundly antithetic than it was adjacent six months ago, due to the fact that we bash present unrecorded successful a state that has an authoritarian person successful charge. We person a consolidating dictatorship successful our country." She and "Last Word" big Lawrence O’Donnell and the remainder emotion to accidental fascism is already here. This is what their ads assertion is democracy-empowering journalism.

The alleged Trump autocracy hasn’t unopen down immoderate of the relentlessly anti-Trump networks. Merely suing them for defamation is cartooned arsenic a censorship maneuver. Networks similar these request to settee the lawsuits, due to the fact that digging into their fact-defying malice against Trump would marque for an casual week successful court.

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