So the news hit the other day that Joy Reid was being let go from MSNBC after this week and I don't really have an opinion about that woman in particular, but I do have an opinion about MSNBC in a general sense in that they are obvious partisan hacks. Sure, they have a conservative or two on their show but just like with the Colmes half of "Hannity and Colmes", the political person who is not in line with the rest of the networks is intentionally weak.
Joy Reid clips would fly onto my radar every now and then but I never watched her show. I understood her to be a couple of things and seeing as who she worked for, it wasn't surprising. She was an "all things all conservatives do is bad!" and "white people bad!" kind of person.
There was a time that this sort of thing got viewers I guess, but that time is not not.
Conservative Brief, the most idiotic voice in conservative news that unfortunately has become one of the most read, didn't waste any time creating BS headlines to bait people into their horribly written articles. This one is no exception.
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So in the above picture you see Jen Psaki I think her name is, Racheal Maddow, and Joy Reid. All of these women are employed by MSNBC or I guess most of them are now.
So anyone who is just passing by will look at the headline and the picture and probably not read the article but will celebrate for some reason that all 3 of these women are getting axed by the very network that created them. And if they walk away thinking that there is a good chance they are going to talk about it to a couple of other people as well. There's just one minor issue though: only Joy Reid was fired. Maddow and Psaki aren't going anywhere. In fact: Psaki is getting her timeslot to what is considered by many to be a more mainstream time-slot, which is kind of the opposite of getting fired.
They don't try to attempt to state that Maddow and Psaki were fired in the article but it is definitely implied in the blurb that pops up on various new aggregate apps that exist all over the place. Most people, including me, have seen their attention span diminish over the years and therefore a lot of people just read headlines and don't even bother with the articles. This isn't necessarily laziness, we just have too much information thrown at us every day and that is why there are no gigantic articles written by basically anyone anymore: Readers generally speaking wont stick around long enough to read it all.
They talks about Reid getting canned, but the barely mention Psaki and Maddow, who again, are not being fired.
Buried in the middle of the article is the information that Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Jose Diaz-Balart are getting let go and well, I can't say that I even know who any of those people are so it is understandable that a "news company" like MSNBC would be releasing them.
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Both sides of the political aisle are guilty as charged as far as spreading of fake news is concerned but there was a time when I felt as though this was largely a liberal news outlet problem but there must be something to it from either and information spreading or a profit-making point of view because that fake news void has been well and truly filled on the conservative side of things as well.
Plus there is also the fact that we should be asking ourselves, why would we be celebrating the firing of any or all of these people anyway? I mean, you could always just not watch their shows which I am presuming is what most conservatives do anyway.
Conservative Brief has risen to very high prominence as far as where conservatives get their "news" from and this is tragic at best, but more like idiotic. If you are reading Conservative Brief I strongly encourage you to only do so in an ironic sense like I do: I go in there only to see what sort of lies they are trying to peddle without actually committing libel.
Clickbait is a helluva drug and it pays well.