MSNBC
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MSNBC (stylized as msnbc) is an American basic cable and satellite channel that provides news coverage and political opinion on current events. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group.
MSNBC's Self-Proclaimed Progressive Bias
Beginning in the mid-2000s, MSNBC's opinion programming increasingly reflected its concept of political progressivism. In October 2010, it publicly acknowledged this with a marketing campaign it called "Lean Forward." Further, in September 2013, MSNBC launched its revamped official website under the tagline, "What Progressives Have Been Waiting For." Their current tagline is: "This is who we are.
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In recent years, I’ve written about the story of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man who was murdered in Arizona in the first documented hate crime in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The gunman — who apparently mistook Sodhi for a Muslim — reportedly declared during his arrest: “I stand for America all the way!” The bigotry Sodhi encountered has always seemed — to me, at least — analogous to the racist and xenophobic entitlement that Donald Trump and many of his followers express toward nonwhite people, particularly...