Word: msnbc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just one year after it was founded, MSNBC is giving pink slips to a fifth of their staff (Netly News...
After about six months, MSNBC quietly stopped rating itself. And that's when we entered the current phase of the debacle. The Internet Content Coalition, co-founded by msnbc general manager Jim Kinsella, proposed a "news exemption" work-around: it would give news sites an N rating, which would keep them above the ratings fray. Of course, to do that you would first have to define news. Is the Village Voice news? The American Civil Liberty Union's Website? The Netly News? We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice...
...what's good business for the software industry is nonsense for journalism--as the folks who run Microsoft's news Website quickly realized. An MSNBC report on the Oklahoma City bombing, for example, would have drawn a prohibitive rating in the violence department...
...Signifies The Commish, Sinbad, MSNBC...
...YORK: Cable TV's own War of the Roses ended today with a deal between TIME Warner Cable and Fox News that a relieved Rudy Giuliani called "a win-win situation for everyone involved." Fox News will get to take on CNN and MSNBC in New York City, the nation's premier media market, plus access to 65 percent of the TIME Warner systems. In return, Fox will eventually allow TIME Warner to broadcast its channels across the Fox international satellite television network, giving the media conglomerate a slice of some overseas markets it currently doesn't reach. Giuliani...