Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, December 15, 2022

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, but first. On this Thursday, I am remembering that this week in history, NBC joined forces with Microsoft to invent MSNBC, a fusion of news coverage and interactivity. It did not work. In the beginning, 1996, Brian Williams was the face of the network as it tried to report the news in a somewhat straight fashion. The culture of NBC, like its counterparts at ABC and CBS, was socially liberal, but not radical, but few tuned in to MSNBC and executives watched in horror as the conservative Fox News Channel streaked in the ratings crushing MSNBC and soon CNN. I was up against Chris Matthews in the late 1990s at 8 p.m. The factor prevailed by a wide margin. That's when NBC executives

decided to forsake journalism completely on its cable arm. Today, MSNBC is steeped in left-wing propaganda and allows rank hatred to be displayed. In primetime, the average audience is 1.8 million paltry in a country where 125 million homes have TV. There's no question that MSNBC has damaged the brand of NBC News, giving a relatively fair guy like NBC News anchor Lester Holt, a major obstacle to overcome. Dissent is good for the country. Hatred is not, and a lot of that is on MSNBC.

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