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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Eight years ago this week, Ryan Lizza wrote a memorable piece for The New Yorker about something he described as “the ‘Young Guns’ Jinx.” In the fall of 2010, when the Obama revolution was running out of gas and the Tea Party was ascendant, three up-and-coming House Republicans published a policy manifesto: “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.” The authors — Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan — were depicted together on the book’s cover casually smiling on a congressional balcony overlooking the Washington Mall. Not long...