A thread in which to list the particular things/guests/segments you actually appreciated about MSNBC. [View all]

If you don't have something nice to say, please don’t say anything at all.

Like many of you, I’m not turning it on after the election because 1) i can’t bear to hear anything political and 2) I need breathing room and time to focus on other things in life such as getting passports updated, monitoring and pondering the peculiarities of the coming crash of the government/economy/free speech.

I understand their limitations as ‘corporate media’, but though working within the US corporate media system they did often give voice to intellectuals, exposure to some underexposed issues, historical perspectives that no other station (even the damn history channel!) bothered to give. Many of these people (not all, but many) put their heart and soul into giving a voice to anti-fascist, pro-democratic ideals; and many (not all, but most) are surely as depressed and devastated at the outcome as we are. Not only the faces we see as anchors, but the staff behind them.

I’ll start, in no particular order:
1. Velshi Banned Books gives the authors of banned books the exposure to say what they are about, and reminds us of a time when book burning and book banning was abhorrent to the predominant soul of America.

2. Chris Hayes’ program on food waste in America, which was eye-opening and an important topic.

3. Frequent examples of crystal clear empathy — Jacob Soboroff describing the prisons with kids in cages, Nicole Wallace and Stephanie Ruhle’s authentic human compassion with families of victims of gun violence