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=> the case of Cenk Uguyr of The Young Turks

the case of Cenk Uguyr of The Young Turks
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, April 19 2016, 16:36:07 (UTC)
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...his career is an interesting window of a conspiracy gone wrong. The same thing happened, I believe, with Rachael Maddow.....she was once pretty progressive as a radio talk show host on Air America, which eventually went broke...she was hired on at MSNBC and is still there, but she's toned down her reporting quite a lot.

..Cenk, on the famous other hand, although he also was hired away from The Young Turks by MSNBC and even had his own show, he was eventually fired because he would not change his tone....too many "complaints" (guess who from) were said to come in even though his show, for the brief time it was there was becoming increasingly popular...that part MSNBC didn't mind at all...that's what they'd hoped would happen when they hired him....but they hired him in order to trim his sails, to tone him down, to co-opt him, as they did with Maddow. And it wasn't working...on the contrary, they gave him a wider audience, ooops! Their conspiracy to rid corporate America of a gadfly backfired.

...it didn't work...when he refused to change, they fired him...not because he wasn't popular, but because their intention never was to give him a larger audience, hell no, it was to modify and silence his views, with a huge salary and all that goes with it.

...you can call it a "conspiracy theory" of mine, if you want to...but it's clear they knew exactly what they were getting when they hired him, as they knew who Maddow had been...so, why hire such people? Well, because offering them high salaries and other perks is the best way to silence them or blunt their critical and insightful views. And they practically admitted their conspiracy when they gave their reason for firing him as "too many complaints"...clearly these complaints did not come from the audience of The Young Turks, as no one expected they would. MSNBC knew exactly who they were getting...this was not yet another instance of the infamous "mistakes were made"...nope, the only mistake here was MSNBC thinking they could buy Cenk.

...MSNBC didn't fire Cenk for the usual reasons, but for the unusual reason that he remained who he was all along...MSNBC and all of them aren't interested in NEWS...they are interested in making a reality...one which favors the rich and the corporate and rather than leave Cenk on the outside, they brought him in and tried to ease his way into becoming yet another stooge for the wealthy...it didn't work. Cenk is back at the old stand....and so is MSNBC.



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