LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat.
She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.
She went on to call for a halt to "the demonizing", and another attendee actually noted that MSNBC is "the only network with more letters in its name than viewers". What in the world is going on?
The elite laying the hammer on MSNBC and other outlets?
This is not good news.
One of two reasons must exist for this.
Either they believe that leftist Democrats will control all branches of the U.S. government, or they believe that MSNBC and other media outlets are unacceptably biased in their treatment of candidates.
It seems likely that the former is operative. Nancy Pelosi has stated that when Democrats control everything, politics in America will become much more bi-partisan.
She believes that the elections are a done deal, and that Democrats will rule for the forseeable future. This, therefore, is a time to appear magnanimous; a time to "make nice" with all the nasty folks. Assuming this to be the case, the Hollywood elite will of course follow her lead.
It seems inconceivable that the latter case would be operative. Democrats simply don't believe that a media controlled by Democrats could, in any way, be biased.