"At MSNBC, weekends aren't newsworthy." That's the scathing headline atop Scott Collins' piece in the LA Times.
As Scott put it:
Over the weekend, with its cable rivals devoting generous airtime to demonstrations convulsing Tehran and online viewers transfixed by amateur video of a young woman apparently felled by a sniper's bullet, MSNBC stuck to its usual diet of taped documentaries, including one titled "Sex Slaves in America." A rerun of the prison documentary "Lockup" aired Saturday night. Meanwhile, anchor Shepard Smith was giving viewers of Fox News Channel a special two-hour wrap-up of Iranian developments. CNN likewise devoted substantial blocks of time to covering the crisis live.
And then Scott took note of the response:
On the Web, MSNBC's coverage decision generated some furious reactions. On Twitter, one user called the network "MIA"; another wrote, "MSNBC closed eyes to murder in Iran." And the Huffington Post's Tom D'Antoni blogged that MSNBC "disgraced themselves this weekend by ignoring the biggest story in the world."
Indeed, MSNBC is MIA, as the Tweeter observed. So maybe we should just call the network "MIABC."
I guess the bottom line is that if the news story doesn't entail sucking up to Democrats--and make no mistake, the Iran story has made the Obama administration look terrible--then MSNBC isn't interested in covering the story.
