Ah MSNBC. I have no choice but so see a lot of you when I'm at my mom's. You are so full of intelligent, liberal, serious-minded people who, unlike Fox news and even CNN, tend to work with provable fact and form informed opinions, rather than twist fact to fit prejudices.
Cable news may be a pundit pit because of all the time that need to be filled, but MSNBC I do believe you deserve a bit of credit for trying to keep the aims high.
Yet still every day you gotta "get him." Trump. So many soundbites and video clips. He's the star of your channel, now.
Every day you gotta "get him" in such a way that you can do it again the next day. Which means you can never, really, effective GET HIM because then he is GOT and the story is over. But you got your audience and they want to see you "get him" so that's what you give them, even as the result continues to be you preaching endlessly to the same choir, who slowly lose belief over time that Trump can ever really be GOT. No one who doesn't already fully agree is watching you, MSNBC. All the words and efforts of all those intelligent, liberal, serious-minded people, wasted... jerking each other off and clucking their tongues while everything proceeds as planned. Because people no longer listen to "news" on a channel that needs to fill so much time that punditry is unavoidable.
I miss CNN Headline News. A 1/2 hour format, repeating all day, just the headlines, only time for the facts. Of course it was Nancy Grace, the harpy, who ruined that after the O.J. Trial made CNN into an empire. The ratings and revenue of a three-hour ghoulish "news" show poking into court cases clearly indicated that regular news was just totally not profitable enough.
Twenty years later, this remains true.