What a network!

We don't get cable, but with all the talk about Donahue being tossed from MSNBC and the hiring of Michael Savage, we decided to take a look at their schedule. It's pathetic. Here, for example, is what's being broadcast this Saturday night - Sunday morning:

8:00 P.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Captured:Busted in the Big Easy On the job with New Orleans Vice. Their practice- perhaps unorthodox. Their results - stunningly successful.

9:00 P.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Hollywood Vice As the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit try to stop street prostitution, a new generation of call-girls uses the Web to avoid getting caught. A look at the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit & their attempts to stop street crimes.

10:00 P.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Red Light Survivors A look at prostitution -- both legal & illegal -- in the U.S. today.

11:00 P.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Captured: Busted in the Big Easy On the job with New Orleans Vice. Their practice- perhaps unorthodox. Their results - stunningly successful.

SUNDAY, MARCH 2

12:00 A.M ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Hollywood Vice As the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit try to stop street prostitution, a new generation of call-girls uses the Web to avoid getting caught. A look at the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit & their attempts to stop street crimes.

1:00 A.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Red Light Survivors A look at prostitution -- both legal & illegal -- in the U.S. today.

2:00 A.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Captured: Busted in the Big Easy On the job with New Orleans Vice. Their practice- perhaps unorthodox. Their results - stunningly successful.

3:00 A.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Hollywood Vice As the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit try to stop street prostitution, a new generation of call-girls uses the Web to avoid getting caught. A look at the police of the Hollywood Vice Unit & their attempts to stop street crimes.

4:00 A.M. ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES - Red Light Survivors A look at prostitution -- both legal & illegal -- in the U.S. today.

Nine consecutive hours devoted to hookers. And on the eve of a war, no less.

Also, two hours immediately before this block of programming - and two hours after - there is "an in-depth look at The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show" - which probably is better suited for the Animal Channel.

Who's surprised at the low ratings? MSNBC is airing 13 hours of flotsam and jetsam (2+9+2) at a time when there is big news out there (Iraq, Turkey, UN, military preparations, protests, Hans Blix,...).

posted by Quiddity at 3/01/2003 06:03:00 AM