First my review: I feel it is typical journalism, lacking some objectivity and using inflamatory inuendo such as "liberal-bashing" and "caters to" to establish the tone of the article. On the plus side, it is accurately describing the reaction of viewership in two cities in which "selective" channel switching has occurred. Balance-wise it gives (some) viewer reactions while balancing that it could be merely a "business" decision. On the negative side, it freely tosses around the "liberal" label for both the network and the cities. Though commonly over-used in today's media to perpetuate division and polarization , such "motherhood" statements are misleading. I consider such labels to be fraudulent and deceptive and useful only for audience manipulation and sensationalization. Such is the "life blood" of the American 2 minute, sound bite news spoon feeding. My personal story, true confessions. I am in Pittsburgh, Countdown was one of my "must see" programs (see below for others). In my opinion, I don't feel that disagreement with any administration, requires a phony "label" to discount the presentation of facts. Considering total programming, the other two mentioned, "Morning Joe" and "Hardball with Chris Matthews", which I also watched hardly qualify as "liberal" (if we must use a label) programming. PERHAPS?..MSNBC is close to being truely fair and balanced. Personally I do have suspicions regarding Comcast's motives and justifications. My reasons are many, but there was another channel adjustment that I believe was even more significant. I am an avid c-span viewer, in particular the Congressional and Senate floor debates. I even tape those that I have specific interest in (like the 2003 $87B funding bills). Recently I tuned to channel 61 (the Senate debates) and cloture, only to find that the Senate channel was removed. This at a time when records are being set for fillibusters and obstructionism in the upper house to prevent bills from passing. Such is (obviously in Comcast's opinion) not good for the constituancy to see.