{"id":253,"date":"2003-07-08T04:25:55","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/08\/some-good-news-about-american-media-for-a-change\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T04:25:55","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T12:25:55","slug":"some-good-news-about-american-media-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Some good news about American media for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beginning this winter, The Guardian <\/i><\/a>is going to be bringing out an American edition<\/a>. It’ll be a weekly magazine, not a daily newspaper, but still – cool.<\/p>\n

In further good news, MSNBC has fired Michael Savage <\/a>for his on-air homophobia (he told a gay caller to ” get AIDS and die, you pig”). As the Washington Post’s TV columnist writes, “MSNBC was shocked — shocked, I tell you — to learn that its well-known homophobe host Michael Savage is actually — gasp! — homophobic.”<\/p>\n

MSNBC has said the decision to fire Savage was easy. But if they’re so gosh-darned anti-homophobia, then why hire Savage (who makes no secret of his loathing of gays) in the first place? Because they didn’t know, before hiring him, that his ratings would be only so-so. If Savage’s show had been the hit MSNBC was hoping for (like Savage’s hugely popular talk-radio show), then MSNBC probably would have found that they could live with gay-bashing on their network. Fortunately for American television, Savage’s ratings were mediocre.<\/p>\n

Best quote from the Post <\/i>article:<\/p>\n

Immediately after deciding to whack Savage, MSNBC chief Erik Sorenson, as he has so often in the past couple of years, became hopelessly lost in the Land of Not Available and could not be found for comment. Our thoughts are with him and his family and we wish him another safe return.<\/div>\n

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