[Illbay]

I did not watch but perhaps five minutes of MSNBC and CNN/HNN during this entire conflict.

Who needs 'em?

[Warhead W-88]

MSNBC hasn't been that bad. You'd be surprised-- they are really rah-rahing it up. They're almost as in-your-face patriotic as Fox in some ways. I kind of discount it as a deliberate and cynical marketing ploy, but there you go.

There's a guy named Dr. Bob Arnot who is either conservative or is a liberal doing a good impression of an actual fair & balanced reporter. David Bloom was fair too, before he died.

[Warhead W-88]

Mind you, if I were a Nielsen household, I'd only watch Fox.

But as long as no one knows about it, I feel okay flicking to MSNBC's news coverage.

They broke the Saddam restaurant hit story, for example. (Though Fox had all the details... way too many details, actually, IMHO. Rita Cosby broke the news that we had decrypted Saddam's "Jaguar" phone system, which is a fact I don't think we needed to know.)

[AmishDude]

CNN is living off of the same model as its sister media outlet, Time. In airports, hotels, etc. it is the default channel. I just stayed at a hotel where, no matter what channel you were watching, when you pressed the power button it came to the default channel -- CNN.

If Time weren't in doctor's offices it wouldn't have enough subscriptions to continue publishing.