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To: tejek who wrote (137932)	10/1/2013 12:37:17 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And don't forget FOX. These days I watch them for entertainment. Like the day of the Presidential election where Karl Rove quarreled with the news anchors. Today, you see their show hosts negotiating on how the Republicans should negotiate with the Democrats. Fun to watch. Like you I don't watch MSNBC for the reason you stated. I like Ed and like the way he cuts through butter like a hot knife when he attacks those Republicans and the rich. No holds barred when it comes to Ed. Way to go.

To: tejek who wrote (137932)	10/1/2013 7:24:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

MSNBC: My take. I guess we see things differently. I see ideas as more sophisticated or less sophisticated. My theory is find the smartest folks on the planet and learn from them. Knowledge is infinite, and I am not, so I stick to the best and the brightest. I have done that for 50 years. When I first accidentally ran into Plato and had no idea what he was talking about, but could feel it was important, I set out, to find out. Unknown author: "the sophistication with which one solves a hypothesis is dependent upon how many variables one can hold in consideration at any given moment.: I have watched MSNBC evolve for a decade and it has been breathtakingly brilliant. Instead of looking for good news people who are usually average intellectually, they have been looking for the smartest people in the country and teaching them to be news teachers. So they can teach us. People who know what they are talking about at a professors level. The first thing they did was get rid of all the right wingers or vacuous folks like Rita Cosby and Tucker Carlson and they replaced them with liberal intellectuals like Kieth Olberman, Rachel Maddow and others as hosts.. They look for four things primarily: 1) depth of thinking, 2) presentation, 3) honesty and 4) compassion. And they are constantly shifting them around based on those four criteria. Then they looked for heavy intellectuals for panelist's. Often to the universities (like James Peterson and Melissa Harris Perry). And they juggle them around based on where they fit best. Right now Alex Wagner is the top rising host followed by Chris Hays (one of the smartest folks in the country) and Steve Kornacki. Then they back them up with brilliant panelists like Ezra Klein, Sam Stein, Ari Melbar and Joy Reid, etc. From morning to night it is a parade of the best and the brightest professor types teaching me stuff I don't know. And I can tell they are correct, and that they are honest and have compassion. CNN seems full of very mediocre to crazy right wingers thinkers. They have been dumbing CNN down for a long time. I can learn little from those folks, and usually find their thinking very mediocre. The Tea party faction, IMO is a total vacuum of sophistication. FOX is a total waste of time. And FOX is nothing less than a reflection of just how dishonest, dumb, crazy and mean the human species can be. MSNBC is the best the human species has to offer; and I never thought I would see it.