MSNBC is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City. It is owned by NBCUniversal —a subsidiary of Comcast —and provides news coverage and political commentary. The network produces live broadcasts for its channel from studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan,New York City,and aggregates its coverage and commentary on its website,msnbc.com.
Christopher John Matthews is an American political commentator,retired talk show host,and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show,Hardball with Chris Matthews,on America's Talking and later on MSNBC,from 1997 until March 2,2020. He announced on his final episode that he was retiring,following an accusation that he had made inappropriate comments to a Hardball guest four years earlier.
Outfoxed:Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism is a 2004 documentary film by filmmaker Robert Greenwald about Fox News Channel's and its owner's,Rupert Murdoch,promotion of conservative views. The film says this bias belies the channel's motto of being "Fair and Balanced".
Krystal Marie Ball is an American political commentator and media host. She was previously a political candidate,as well as a television host at MSNBC,a regular contributor to The Huffington Post,and a co-host of The Hill's Rising along with Saagar Enjeti. In May 2021,Ball and Enjeti announced that they were leaving the show in order to launch their own independent project titled Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar. Ball is a co-host with her husband Kyle Kulinski on the podcast Krystal Kyle &Friends. She has made guest appearances on networks such as CNN,CNBC,Fox News,and programs including Real Time with Bill Maher.
John Harrison Nichols is a liberal and progressive American journalist and author. He is the National Affairs correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times. Books authored or co-authored by Nichols include The Genius of Impeachment and The Death and Life of American Journalism.
Sally Rebecca Kohn is an American liberal political commentator,community organizer,and founder and chief executive officer of the Movement Vision Lab,a grassroots think tank that focuses on liberal and progressive ideas and positions. Kohn was a contributor for Fox News,and now regularly appears as a political commentator on CNN. Her writing is published in publications like The Washington Post and USA Today.
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton was an American political news program broadcast on MSNBC,hosted by Al Sharpton. It began on August 29,2011,on MSNBC's weekday 6 PM slot,the first time that the slot had been occupied by a branded series since January 2011.
Jonathan T. Capehart is an American journalist and television commentator. He writes for The Washington Post's PostPartisan blog and is host of The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC.
In the 2016 presidential campaign,Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sought the Democratic Party's nomination in a field of six major candidates and was the runner up with 46% of the pledged delegates behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,who won the contest with 54%. Sanders,the junior United States senator and former Representative from Vermont,began with an informal announcement on April 30,2015,and a formal announcement that he planned to seek the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States on May 26,2015,in Burlington,Vermont. Sanders had been considered a potential candidate for president since at least September 2014. Though he had previously run as an independent,he routinely caucused with the Democratic Party,as many of his views align with Democrats. Running as a Democrat made it easier to participate in debates and get his name on state ballots.
A total of ten debates occurred among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the president of the United States in the 2016 presidential election.
Bill Scher is an American pundit and liberal political analyst. He is the Politics Editor for the Washington Monthly. He also is a Contributing Editor to POLITICO Magazine,and a contributor to RealClearPolitics. He also co-hosts "The DMZ," an online TV show with conservative pundit Matt Lewis on YouTube. Scher is an alumnus of Oberlin College.
Marissa Johnson is an activist who attained notoriety when she interrupted U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at an August 2015 rally in Seattle. Her activism has been associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. She is a founder of a Seattle-based justice group called Outside Agitators 206,which was disbanded when she became a cofounder of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter around September 2015.
Jamelle Antoine Bouie is an American columnist for The New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate. David Uberti,writing in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019,called Bouie "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era."
Lindy Li is an American political commentator and campaign advisor serving as the Women's Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee. She served on the Asian American outreach team for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
Bernie Bro,collectively Bernie Bros,is a term coined in 2015 by Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic as a pejorative to describe young male supporters of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the 2016 United States presidential election. The term remained in use for the 2020 United States presidential election.
Symone D. Sanders-Townsend is an American political strategist and political commentator who hosts MSNBC's The Weekend. She served as national press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. She left the campaign abruptly in late June 2016,saying "she was not let go and that leaving the campaign was her decision." In October 2016,she was hired as a Democratic strategist and political commentator by CNN.
Yamiche Léone Alcindor is an American journalist who is a Washington correspondent for NBC News. In the past,she has worked as the host of Washington Week on PBS and as a reporter for PBS NewsHour,USA Today,and The New York Times. Alcindor writes mainly about politics and social issues.
The media coverage of Bernie Sanders,a U.S. Senator from Vermont,became a subject of discussion during his unsuccessful 2016 and 2020 presidential runs. His campaigns,some independent observers,as well as some media sources have said that the mainstream media in the United States is biased against Sanders. Others say that coverage is unbiased or biased in his favor. The allegations of bias primarily concern the coverage of his presidential campaigns.
The Hill's Rising is an American daily news and opinion web series produced by Washington,D.C. political newspaper The Hill. The series is available on The Hill's website and YouTube.
Michael Jamal Brooks was an American talk show host,writer,left-wing political commentator,and comedian. While co-hosting The Majority Report with Sam Seder,he launched The Michael Brooks Show in August 2017 and provided commentary for media outlets,making regular appearances on shows such as The Young Turks. Brooks contributed to various publications,including HuffPost,The Washington Post,Al Jazeera,openDemocracy,and Jacobin. His book Against the Web:A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right was published by Zero Books in April 2020.
