Jonathan Capeheart has not grown into his job as a host on MSNOW.

[yellow dahlia]

He spends too much time giggling. He is not serious.

He treats the news like it's a soap opera. Today he started a segment about the Iran negotiations, by saying: "poor JD". Susan DelPurcio (of whom I am not a big fan) immediately clapped back on the comment, but he continued on defending his "style".

During the question portion at the end of the show, Jacquie turned to him for his answer. He flustered, and said - oh no I wasn't even paying attention. Take this job seriously, Jonathan....concentrate.

As usual, he stumbled through some of his speaking segments. He acts like he doesn't even know the material. Um, um, um, uh, uh...giggle, giggle.

He is a distraction on the weekend morning show. These are serious times and the show deserves his serious attention. These are serious topics - war, corruption, a volatile Democracy.

Jacquie Alemany keeps trying to keep the show serious and centered. Thank you, Jacquie.

My helpful hint to Jonathan - professionals often watch themselves on tape, to see how they can improve.

[displacedvermoter]

1. Too much time with dumbass Brooks on Newshour...

[underpants]

2. I heard the verbal gaffe and heard the comment at the end.

I like they are trying to keep the show light.

[LuvLoogie]

3. Maybe it's passive aggressiveness toward his woman co-host.

Maybe he resents having to share the airtime with some who probably is more talented and a harder worker.

Just my take from your description. I've never watched either. I don't have a television and only have cable for internet access. So, I'm just guessing.

[yellow dahlia]

6. Hhmmm. Interesting thought.

When Capeheart isn't there the tone of the show is different. When it is just Jacquie Alemany and Eugene Daniels, Eugene is more serious.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Capehart is a liar.

To advance his future job prospects, he smeared Bernie Sanders:

"Sanders’s involvement in the civil rights movement and his commitment to equal justice are not in question. Another old picture that appears in campaign literature and video of student-activist Sanders with the university president is not in question. That most definitely is him. What’s at issue is Sanders’s misleading use of a photograph to burnish already solid credentials. For a candidate who garnered 92 percent of New Hampshire Democratic voters who said the most important trait for a candidate was that he or she be 'honest,' the least his campaign could do is remove that photo from its Tumblr feed and stop physically placing him where he existed only in spirit." -- Jonathan Capehart

https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/the-jonathan-capehart-saga-or-why-progressives-hav

[yellow dahlia]

5. Thank you! Thank you! That article is apropos to my OP thoughts.

I was not aware of those writings by Capehart in 2016. You are the politics encyclopedia, Kid.

The description of Capeheart, in the article, jibes with what I observe, when I have the Weekend morning show on. He is melodramatic. He doesn't admit a mistake.

He is SO bad at what he does, that when he is subbing for someone (like Lawrence) I turn off MSNOW.

I don't know why Capeheart wasn't removed when they did their recent reworking of the line-up.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Even cable is corrupted.

MSNOW still answers to management appointed by ownership. One example: Lawrence O’Donnell repeats whenever he can that it was Lee Harvey Oswald who murdered President Kennedy. That’s what J Edgar Hoover and Allen Dulles alleged. A simple review of the facts show otherwise. Thus, Corporate McPravda like those who are cheap, pliable and don’t ask questions.

Media Monopoly led to the Rise of the Right

Details for those new to the subject:

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Additional important history to know...

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda

The Attack on Democracy

The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.

John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.

Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.

This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.

Source: TUC Radio

Part 1: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-one-of-two/

Part 2: https://tucradio.org/podcasts/newest-podcasts/alex-carey-corporations-and-propaganda-part-two-of-two/


Gore Vidal on what Americans read, see and hear via Corporate McPravda:

"A writer must always tell the truth, unless he is a journalist."

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.”

“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.”

Most importantly: Thank you for the kindness, yellow dahlia! Your friendship means the world.

[yellow dahlia]

8. Continued thanks.

Mr. Dahlia always says: if he wins the lottery - he's going to buy media.

He also says: reality has a liberal bias.

[Nanjeanne]

9. Im still waiting for his apology.