Another day, another call from President Donald Trump to tear down the stalls he doesn’t like in the marketplace of ideas.

Reacting to reports that CNN is planning to lay off hundreds of employees amidst a ratings crisis, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: “MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t have a right to broadcast."

Do you agree with Trump that MSDNC should not have the right to broadcast?

 

Interesting topic definitely. We have reached a society so split you can not believe anything any of them are saying. From the far left to the far right there is zero middle ground let's just report the facts. Is it time for censorship no because depending on what agenda your pushing that's the direction they will lean. It is the same with our presidents and all this signing of pardons were opening up a big can of worms here and its not good. I truly do not know what the answer should be but we are in a crazy time and it is not improving. Consequences for every action and neither party can remotely look ahead of the fall out of what their actions are going to cause. Best one can do is listen to all media and try to average out the truth because none of them are telling it to us at this point.

 

MSNBC:

• MSNBC has been struggling with ratings recently. In December 2024, they averaged 55,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic, compared to 114,000 in December 2023. Their primetime viewership was around 1.22 million, up 1% from the previous year.
  

CNN:

• CNN has also faced a decline in ratings. They averaged 685,000 viewers in primetime in 2024, up 18% from the previous year. However, their total day viewership was 481,000, which was flat compared to the previous year.
  

Fox News:

• Fox News continues to lead in ratings. In 2024, they averaged 2.38 million viewers in primetime, up 30% from the previous year. Their total day viewership was 1.46 million, up 21% from the previous year.
  

Fox News has maintained its position as the most-watched cable news network, capturing a significant share of the cable news audience.

 

What we need is media outlets to be transparent and held accountable. Question is who can do that and not be swayed one way or another. Too much big money involved on all sides to relinquish such power to a third party. Then it's just a matter of time before they are bought off or threatened by outside organizations because they don't agree with them. We are our worst enemies and fueled with greed. At the end of the big or small its about us not others and others what us to change. It's governments that push the agendas and control media the way they feel fit. All we can do is fight for freedom and freespeach once it is relinquished there is no getting it back. Besides who in their right mind wants everyone to agree I sure the hell don't I enjoy fighting for what I believe in as everyone should. Believe with your eyes and not your ears and move foward. Do not like what you hear tell them to SUCK IT. Censorship is not the way.

 

The thing is, Rachel Maddow's mom would be upset if her daughter was forced off of the air.
The janitor found his remote and switched to CNN.
Pretty sure no one else would care if MSNBC went off the air.

But Trump's social media post that

“MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t have a right to broadcast."​

Was translated to;

"Trump to force MSNBC to stop broadcasting".
​

And that exercise alone explains why we can't believe anything the media pushes at us these days.

 

Hahahaha!You said it yourself in your thread title:


"Should MSDNC be prevented from broadcasting?"
You do know that the official name is MSNBC, right"

They should lose whatever protections are afforded them as a 'news organization' as they are clearly nit that at all.

Trumps should institute actions to curtail all 'news' sources who purposefully lie and misinterpret facts.

News is supposed to report the facts - the truth, and these organizations have sullied their reputations by being blatant, lying, partisan hacks.

 

Trump is notorious for his lies.

 

The 15 most notable lies of Donald Trump’s presidency

Analysis by Daniel Dale, CNN
9 minute read
Updated 9:28 AM EST, Sat January 16, 2021

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I recommend reading this entire article, but I will only copy and past several of Trump's most disgusting lies.

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WashingtonCNN —
Trying to pick the most notable lies from Donald Trump’s presidency is like trying to pick the most notable pieces of junk from the town dump.

There’s just so much ugly garbage to sift through before you can make a decision...

The most dangerous lie: The coronavirus was under control

This was more like a family of lies than a single lie. But each one – the lie that the virus was equivalent to the flu; the lie that the situation was “totally under control”; the lie that the virus was “disappearing” – suggested to Americans that they didn’t have to change much about their usual behavior.

A year into the crisis, more than 386,000 Americans have died from the virus.

We can’t say with precision how the crisis would have unfolded differently if Trump had been more truthful. But it’s reasonable to venture that his dishonesty led to a significant number of deaths...

The most ridiculous subject of a lie: The Boy Scouts

When I emailed the Boy Scouts of America in 2017 about Trump’s claim that “the head of the Boy Scouts” had called him to say that his bizarrely political address to the Scouts’ National Jamboree was “the greatest speech that was ever made to them,” I didn’t expect a reply. One of the hardest things about fact checking Trump was that a lot of people he lied about did not think it was in their interest to be quoted publicly contradicting a vengeful president.

The Boy Scouts did. A senior Scouts source – a phrase I never expected to have to type as a political reporter in Washington, DC – confirmed to me that no call ever happened.

Yep, the President of the United States was lying about the Boy Scouts...

The most traditional big lie: Trump didn’t know about the payment to Stormy Daniels

We’ve established that Trump was not your traditional political liar. One of his distinguishing features is that he lied pointlessly, dissembling about trivial subjects for trivial reasons.

But he also lied when he needed to. When he told reporters on Air Force One in 2018 that he did not know about a $130,000 payment to porn performer Stormy Daniels and that he did not know where his then-attorney Michael Cohen got the money for the payment, it was both audacious – Trump knew, because he had personally reimbursed Cohen – and kind of conventional: the President was lying to try to get himself out of a tawdry scandal...

The most shameless campaign lie: Biden will destroy protections for pre-existing conditions

Trump’s re-election campaign was consistently and consciously dishonest, especially in its attempts to cast Joe Biden as a frightening radical. When Trump claimed in September that Biden would destroy protections for people with pre-existing health conditions – though the Obama-Biden administration created the protections, though the protections were overwhelmingly popular, though Biden was running on preserving them, and though Trump himself had tried repeatedly to weaken them – Trump was not merely lying but turning reality upside down...

The Crazy Uncle lie award: Windmill noise causes cancer

One of the most bonkers “they say” items: his 2019 declaration that “they say” the noise from windmills “causes cancer.”

After Trump amplified another conspiracy lie in 2020, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie admonished him by saying that “you’re not, like, someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever.”

Except he was, until Twitter took down his account...



The most hucksterish lie: That plan was coming in two weeks

Trump’s big health care plan was eternally coming in “two weeks.” So were a bunch of other plans and announcements.

Trump is, at his core, a huckster. Every moment of his presidency was a chance for him to sell someone on something, whether or not that something actually existed. And if they asked when they could actually see the magic elixir he said was being brewed just over there behind the curtain, he would just have to delay them until they forgot about it.

My personal favorite lie: Trump was once named Michigan’s Man of the Year

Trump has never lived in Michigan. Why would he have been named Michigan’s Man of the Year years before his presidency?

He wouldn’t have been. He wasn’t. And yet this lie he appeared to have invented in the final week of his 2016 campaign became a staple of his 2020 campaign, repeated at Michigan rally after rally.

It’s so illustrative because it makes so little sense.

The most depressing lie: Trump won the election

Trump’s long White House campaign against verifiable reality has culminated with his lie that he is the true winner of the 2020 presidential election he clearly, certifiably and fairly lost.

To many of us, it’s ludicrous nonsense. But to millions of deluded Americans, it’s the truth. And it has now gotten people killed.

The nation’s truth problem, clearly, isn’t just a Trump problem. With this last blizzard of deception and the Capitol insurrection it fomented, Trump has shown us, once more, just how detached from reality much of his political base has become – or always was.



The 15 most notable lies of Donald Trump’s presidency | CNN Politics

 

CNN quote

 

MSDNC should be MSNBC.

 

What happened "Master of Facts"?

 

MSNBC
IS
A

It’s a HATEFUL LIES spreading network

 

Trump wants to censor organs of the mainstream media that criticize him.

 

He's such a baby. Why dif you get into politics if u have such a thin skin?

 

Trump wants to rule as a dictator. The Constitution chafes him as much as his dirty diapers.

The poorly educated people Trump pretends to love and who do love him lack the intelligence to evaluate arguments. They want one nation, one message, one leader.

It sounds better in German, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer."

They're not good at thinking, so they want Trump to do their thinking for him. That is why they believe his lies.

 

Attaboy.
Keep up with the old strategy.
It failed.
But you got nothing else and can't think of anything else, can you?

 

Let's be honest, MSNBC is hanging on by a thread,
I've seen them ignore high importance news. Just so they could talk shit about Trump.
People are sick of it.
It wouldn't be a big loss for them to be taken off the air.

 

If that is a problem fewer people with watch MSNBC, and they will lose advertising revenue.

 

I've heard it's for sale,....or will be