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A documentary about the Trump administration's family separation policy will not air before Election Day because MSNBC is concerned about offending the Republican presidential nominee, according to new reports.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 days ago

Snowflake treatment...

But what may be more is that the network fears retaliation from MAGA supporters.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pathetic. An insult to journalism. Par for the course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

To be far, MSNBC isn’t really journalism by definition.

[–] sp3tr4l 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Always a good sign of a healthy culture of free speech when a major news station is openly admitting to censoring themselves due to fear of retribution.

Living in a nuclear armed banana republic with a gucci belt sure is something.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Mainstream media loves Trump, he's the most exciting thing to happen to viewership since reality TV.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense, basically his only real skill has been in TV.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

And he was horrible at it. The crew worked hard to make him look somewhat competent and/or normal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

if that were the reason you'd think they'd air this doc during election season before he might become irrelevant. to me it seems like they’re attempting to appear unbiased.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

They're doing a pretty ass job if it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Journalistic bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

How could they be worried about them being offended? .... they're offended by everything and everyone all the time.

Their entire political motivation is being offended, offending others and creating offences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

While true, they're now at risk of offending an actual dictator. We really don't know yet just how far he is going to be able to go when the federalist society is able to do their purity tests and flush all opposition out of the federal government.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

MSNBC releases statement about not releasing documentary to generate buzz about documentary before releasing it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do we want to guess how much they were paid?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Oh how the mighty have fallen in line.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Isn’t MSNBC typically left leaning? So why would they care if they upset Trump?