Comcastic? Fans smell a political rat in moving MSNBC

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by No author listed | Jul. 19, 2008 (Editorial)

Hours before a televised presidential debate last December in Portland, Ore., Comcast moved the liberal-leaning MSNBC from basic cable to digital premium. Viewer fury was immediate. Comcast was inundated with complaints from thousands of cable subscribers who would not have been able to switch to the higher-priced package to see the debate on time even if they had wanted to. Full Story »

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 by Dan Kennedy - Jul. 23, 2008

The editorialist neither gives us Comcast's side of the story nor explains why it wasn't included. The result is a low-value commentary telling us that liberals are unhappy over MSNBC's being moved with nothing but speculation as to why that happened.

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