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.Melissa harris -perry

“I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” she wrote. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”


link to NYT story...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... lDJAR5RRZw

I've watched Harris-Perry's program occasionally, (until her race baiting becomes so over the top that I can't take it, and have to change the channel) she's certainly a bright person, and she frequently had bright panelists, and she would even occasionally include (in a discussion round table of four or five participants) a person who didn't agree with her.

But when you refuse to do your job, and you publicly bad mouth your employers, you really can't expect to keep your job.

MSNBC has made a business decision to focus largely on the Presidential campaign and they pre-empt their regular programs for this all the time. Melissa was not in any way singled out for this.

It's also true that MSNBC has made a business decision to move into a more "straight news" format during its weekday daytime programming, (similar to FOX) but this was not affecting Melissa's weekend show.

If she didn't want to be a team player and accept the network's strategy decisions, that's up to her, but she doesn't have a right to take that stand and expect to remain employed. She's behaved like a prima donna.

Maybe she should start her own network if she wants full and total control.  This gal did.



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It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit. If there is a large non-audience out there, then she doesn't need to worry much about her observations and opinions being missed anymore than they already have been.

It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit.

WHAT???

I've mentioned her and her show a number of times in my posts...

Are you telling me that you haven't been carefully reading all the pearls of wisdom that I have graciously bestowed on this bbs?

Lord Jim wrote:

It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit.

WHAT???

I've mentioned her and her show a number of times in my posts...

Are you telling me that you haven't been carefully reading all the pearls of wisdom that I have graciously bestowed on this bbs?

Matthew 7:6.

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Joe Guy wrote:It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit. If there is a large non-audience out there, then she doesn't need to worry much about her observations and opinions being missed anymore than they already have been.

I'm with you, Joe. Don't remember seeing her name until LJ's post - did whatever she did make the news?

Joe Guy wrote:It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit.

Me three. (I tend to tune out when Jim begins to wallow around in his addiction to the teevee...)

MajGenl.Meade wrote:

Joe Guy wrote:It might be comforting to Melissa to know that I hadn't ever heard of her until she quit. If there is a large non-audience out there, then she doesn't need to worry much about her observations and opinions being missed anymore than they already have been.

I'm with you, Joe. Don't remember seeing her name until LJ's post - did whatever she did make the news?

We all have our useful functions, and it is nice to have Jim here to guide us through these mysteries, I must say!

I never heard of her until this thread.
You mean there are TV programs on Sunday morning!?!?!?
Learn something new every day.

Well, just a bunch of boring programs focused on world and national affairs, oldr...

Interviews with important public figures and in depth analysis by educated people on a wide range of topics that I'm sure would just put you to sleep; economics, politics, science, current events, cultural and social issues, etc...

Nothing that would be of interest to you...

You stick with Duck Dynasty...

Oh... all the stuff we can't do anything about. You should be in church anyway

wide range of topics that I'm sure would just put you to sleep; economics, politics, science, current events, cultural and social issues, etc...

Science interests me. Somehow MSNBC does not jump out at me when I think of science on TV.
Nat Geo, Discovery, and some other channels maybe. I forgot the channel and show that Morgan Freeman narrates, (Cosmos?) but I like watching that when I get a chance.
And don't knock DD.

ETA
But you forgot the DIY category. You know, shows about fixing up your house, and/or making things yourself.

Where do I find a news program, the kind where somebody stands in front of a camera on location somewhere and tells me what is going on right there, now.?

Melissa, and most of CNN, MSNBC, even Bloomberg, is a bunch of talking heads sitting around and talking about the news. I can get that there.
BBC America is not even the BBC. It is mostly reruns of food celebrity tantrums and star trek. I thought about Al Jazeera. I had to pay extra to get it on Comcast. Just today I switched to Verizon FiOS and it is included, but the oil sheiks are shutting the American version down soon for lack of interest.

Once upon a time I regularly read Jerusalem Post online, but now they, like the Christian Science Monitor, are loaded with ads.

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:I never heard of her until this thread.
You mean there are TV programs on Sunday morning!?!?!?
Learn something new every day.

What he said.