WASHINGTON POST: The Progressive Change Campaign Committee launched a
[ [link removed] ]petition Thursday calling for MSNBC to reinstate Hasan’s Sunday-evening
show

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POLITICO: Progressives criticize MSNBC for canceling Mehdi Hasan show

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[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see Maxwell Frost's tweet about this petition.

POLITICO: "The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, also known as Bold
Progressives, launched a petition Thursday calling on MSNBC to reinstate
Hasan. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), a prominent progressive, posted on X
that he is among the petition’s signatories."

Thousands of people have signed in just the hours following MSNBC's
cancelation of Mehdi Hasan's show.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: MSNBC, we need MORE hosts and guests who challenge
power and conventional wisdom -- not less. Keep Mehdi Hasan as a host of
his own show.

Mehdi is known for challenging power, questioning conventional wisdom, and
giving oxygen to narratives that counter the establishment.

Many important guests do his show specifically because he is seen as an
honest broker. Everyone from AOC to former White House Chief of Staff Ron
Klain have done his show.

To be clear, there was no instigating outrage. No shocking new thing.

In fact, Mehdi was on the Daily Show last night plugging his MSNBC show.
He was acceptable (and cool) enough for the Daily Show, and MSNBC let him
go out and promote the network, and then they blindside one of their best
hosts? That is not ok.

Media history is littered with voices that got in the door, resonated with
the public, and were shut out because they challenged just a little too
much power. Ed Schultz was kicked off MSNBC when he was a little too
pro-union and too pro-Bernie at the time.

It’s a huge programming mistake to kick voices like Mehdi Hasan off the
air instead of asking: Why are they resonating with the public as they
challenge power and question conventional wisdom?

It’s also a huge step back for our democracy, which is increasingly
challenged by misinformation and top-down voices. We need more independent
voices in the conversation, trying to find the truth, even if we don’t
agree with everything they say.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: MSNBC, we need MORE hosts and guests who challenge
power and conventional wisdom -- not less. Keep Mehdi Hasan as a host of
his own show.

Thank you.

-- The PCCC Team

 

 

 


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