Editing MSNBC (section)

===Lack of diversity of views===
Maria Bustillos noted in 2019 that "MSNBC's bland, evenhanded respectability is buttressed with a careful performance of diversity both 'ideological' and [[demographic]]", and that "the network actively discourages consideration of its anchors' personal convictions" in favor of "interchangeable 'television personalities'" who are "compressed into the network's identity and subservient to it."<ref name="auto" /> It has been argued that MSNBC, like other [[United States cable news|cable networks]], "is simply not incentivized to be informative", and instead turns its "viewers into partisan junkies who don't change the channel because they need a fix that tells them they're right about everything (and that the other side is wrong)."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shephard |first=Alex |date=August 6, 2020 |title=The Problem With MSNBC Isn't That It's Too Liberal |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/158824/problem-msnbc-isnt-its-liberal |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626201631/https://newrepublic.com/article/158824/problem-msnbc-isnt-its-liberal |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref> Jason Linkins in 2014 claimed that MSNBC prefers "the incessant production of insidery ideations" over "the service of the public trust in an honest and equitable way."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Linkins |first=Jason |date=July 7, 2014 |title=Noise from Nowhere |url=https://thebaffler.com/salvos/noise-from-nowhere |magazine=[[The Baffler]] |issue=25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825164512/https://thebaffler.com/salvos/noise-from-nowhere |archive-date=August 25, 2022 |access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>