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BROADCAST BIAS: MS NOW marks 3 decades of empowering Democrats, not American democracy

Network once hosted diverse programming before its shift left was defined by Olbermann and Maddow

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published July 18, 2026 7:00am EDT

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MS NOW host reveals she refused to air press briefings during Trump's first term

MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace revealed during a podcast interview on Monday that she refused to air press briefings during President Trump's first term during her show, "Deadline White House." 

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MSNBC debuted on cable television on July 15, 1996, and now, MS NOW is weirdly putting on the screen a celebration of MS NOW’s 30th anniversary, when it just changed the moniker last November. An announcer proclaims: "Celebrating 30 years… Delivering journalism that informs, empowers and strengthens our democracy."

When it began, it really came across as an NBC News farm team. "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw was still proud to be associated with it. On Oct. 29, 1996, Brokaw interviewed former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev on the show "InterNight," hailing him as a "courageous, far-seeking prophet" who ended the Soviet Union. Brokaw even gushed: "Perhaps one day again we'll see you in political office in Russia. We know that you've devoted your life to peace and to changing your country and those of us who have gotten to know you count ourselves among the privileged."

MSNBC in the early days was much more ideologically diverse than it is now, with conservative hosts like politician Alan Keyes, Laura Ingraham and that guy who hosted "Scarborough........

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