Trying To Take On Fox

Give MSNBC credit. They're trying to muster up a challenge to Fox but it doesn't look like it's working. A friend put it this way in rationalizing the move, "it's about time liberals bite back." Certainly, it can lead to more advertising dollars - so the thinking goes.

However, this sort of partisan game is not for everyone.

"I simply could not any longer endure being a cartoon player for lefty games, just gotta move on to higher ground even if there’s no oxygen."

So speaketh political commentator Craig Crawford. I post this because here in Canada all we hear about is Fox and conservative pundits we never listen to - but that doesn't stop us from commentating on it. It would probably surprise some Canadians the same stuff happens on the left side of the equation.

Here, we have access to everything else but Fox TV. We can get Fox radio through a Vermont feed.

It's interesting. The perception is conservative punditry is driven by a labor of lover. No one, as far as I can tell by listening to reporters and interviews, is telling people at Fox to think conservative because they are conservative. So it's one less stress removed in that people don't have to pretend to be something they're not.

Of course, this is where the debate of objective journalism comes in.

By contrast, MSNBC is trying to force a strategy on people who may not like it.

Just a perception. No facts to back this up.