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AlterNet reports:
MSNBC announced on Thursday that "The Ed Schultz Show" would come to an end, to be replaced by a show hosted by political analyst Chuck Todd.
[...] The loss of Schultz is particularly troubling because he has managed a television program that has been more attentive to issues focused on economic inequality, labor unions, and the wider economy than perhaps any other cable television show.
In particular, he covered the Trans-Pacific Partnership more often than [all other cable programs combined], as Craig Harrington and Brian Powell, researchers with Media Matters documented:
[During an 18 month period] CNN and Fox News each mentioned the TPP during two broadcasts. MSNBC's The Ed Show discussed the trade agreement on 71 broadcasts, but the TPP was mentioned on the network's other evening programming only twice (once by host Ed Schultz during coverage of the president's State of the Union speech and a passing mention by All In host Chris Hayes).
On The Jimmy Dore Show (think: Mort Sahl or Jon Stewart) via my Pacifica Radio affiliate, Chuck Todd is mentioned often. My impression is more "political hack" than "political analyst".
(Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @01:24PM
been more attentive to issues focused on economic inequality, labor unions, and the wider economy
Despite some left-wingers wanting them to be issues (not to resolve these alleged problems, of course, but just to give these left-wingers power over others), those things listed just aren't issue any longer.
Economic equality is lower than it has ever been. There are more welfare programs redistributing more wealth than ever before. That's why there are so many people in the Deep South, including entire communities, who do not work, yet still are provided with more then enough money by the government for food, shelter, raising several children, cars, the latest iPhones, Nike shoes, and other luxuries.
In fact, this redistribution of wealth has itself caused income inequality by taking away from those who actually do bother to work, and giving to those who choose not to. This isn't even a matter of supporting the disabled; this is about people who are perfectly capable of working choosing not to because they're better off suckling on the teet of government!
Labor unions? Shit, they haven't been relevant since the 1980s, when their shenanigans and unreasonable demands ruined the American auto industry and all of the industries associated with it. There's nothing more to say about them today than they fucked up, and made themselves irrelevant.
What the hell does "the wider economy" even mean? The American economy is stronger than it has ever been. There are more jobs available to those with valuable skills, and they're paying great wages. Maybe some unskilled left-wingers who didn't bother to learn a useful skill find themselves unemployed, but that has always been the case. Sorry, boys and girls, you aren't going to make as much money as a lawyer or doctor if all you can do is cry and whine about "economic equality", "labor unions" and "the wider economy"!
Just like the media doesn't devote to much time to non-issues like knitting, badminton, and rock collecting, they also shouldn't devote much time to the other non-issues that left-wingers like to use to exploit others.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @09:57PM
Economic equality is lower than it has ever been.
I agree with that part.