If Ed were to go it would be because the Right Wing ownership of Comcast wants to phase out Progressive content overtime on their network.
It all comes down to the effectiveness of propaganda being harmed when you have an outlier that doesn't echo the agreed upon meme.
Remember when the American people were lied into the Iraq War over Saddam's WMD? You know how that worked? Because the major corporate news media ... print, radio, cable, network ... all presented their viewers with the same falsehood.
See, propaganda requires media collusion to work. If only CBS presented a lie of the magnitude of Saddam's WMD then the public may look at it warily ... but if CNN, NBC, Wall Street Journal, ABC, New York TImes all echo the same falsehood then it becomes legitimate in the minds of enough media consumers to make an invasion of Iraq over nothing palatable.
MSNBC's evening Progressive programming is an outlier to the lockstep collusion of Corporate MSM messaging. If Ed is under threat, then so is Rev Al, Rachel, Lawrence ... all of them.
MSNBC already proved with the firing of Phil Donahue during the Iraq War period that ratings don't matter ... he had a winning show and was canned anyway because he wouldn't cooperate in supporting the meme.
Comcast's goal is to likely bring MSNBC into alignment with the rest of media, so let's see how this plays out.
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