The Daily Beast’s new interview with MSNBC president Phil Griffin took place earlier than RNC chair Reince Priebus introduced his boycott of that network, so sadly it does no longer contain his response to that problem. The article does alternatively include a lot of fascinating tidbits from Griffin, including his insistence that MSNBC “has by no means had an ideology” like its competitor Fox News does.

Griffin explains, “An ideology is a single concept across all programs. We’ve never had that,” sooner than including, “Obviously I hire individuals who match the sensibility.”

At the related time, Griffin says of Fox Information, “I believe they do have an ideology, because every Republican who’s in bother goes on that network to be looked after… They’re owned via News Corp., which is Rupert Murdoch. Roger Ailes runs it, and he comes out of the Republican Celebration.” He provides: “That’s fantastic. They’ve achieved an incredible job over there. They’ve been very a hit. They pressure quite a lot of the dialog.”

Griffin additionally explains the idea process in the back of the community’s newest schedule, which contains convey from Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid:

“There is a rhyme or motive to this—it’s making the thread clearer from morning to night,” Griffin says, explaining that the latest line-up is equipped in three-hour blocks. The first begins with Morning Joe, the bipartisan agenda-setter that airs from 6 to 9 a.m., continuing with a newsy block that runs from 9 to noon (with Corridor newly installed at 11 a.m.), operating via Mitchell at midday and followed by Farrow and Reid as “a extra topical” bridge to an increasingly opinionated afternoon featuring The Cycle, a panel convey, and Now With Alex Wagner. “Then you might have the big voices of Ed Schultz, Rev [Al Sharpton], and Chris [Matthews],” Griffin continues, “after which the big deeper thinkers of Chris Hayes, Rachel [Maddow], and Lawrence [O’Donnell].”

When The Day by day Beast’s Lloyd Grove asked Griffin if that implies “MSNBC’s day turns into more and more Commie” as it goes along, he answered, “I choose not to describe it that means. We get extra analytical because the day goes on.”

Learn the whole interview at TheDailyBeast.com.

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