Poor Ronan Farrow!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 12:16am

Amid a flurry of articles about trouble at MSNBC, one blog, Mediaite, fingers Ronan Farrow's show as the probable first to go.


Washington Post: "MSNBC Slides Toward Irrelevance":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/10/13/msnbc-slides-toward-irrelevance/


NY Times: "Leaning Forward, MSNBC Loses Ground to Rival CNN

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/business/media/leaning-forward-msnbc-loses-ground-to-rival-cnn-.html?_r=0

And here's the one about Ronan:


MEDIAITE: MSNBC Eyes Canceling Ronan Farrow Show Amidst Schedule Shakeup

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 12:18am

I know people always say this but I'm surprised to hear the show's still on. I don't watch MSNBC regularly but I just presumed the Boy Blunder had been canned.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 12:41am

He has flown so under the radar, who knows, and honestly who cares?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 6:43am

Oh well, he'll live.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 9:31am

He can join Chelsea Clinton in the club of people who have powerful parents but no talent.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 10:14am

I think one of MSNBC's problems is that, unlike FOX, it's core audience isn't bedridden and close to death. "Liberals" (younger ones) get their news from a variety of sources online and aren't fixated on one O'Reilly-esque deity to feed them their "news".

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 10:48am

Jordan pinned the tail on the donkey.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 10:53am

I think one of MSNBC's problems is that, unlike FOX, it's core audience is made up of morons. "Conservatives" want news and aren't fixated on one metrosexual deity to feed them their "news".

Ronan on his mother's Black motheritis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5S0dZMzd0A

Ronan on diversity in emojis

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/ronan-farrow-takes-emoji-racial-diversity

And the ever important world crisis of men who enjoy My Little Pony

http://www.msnbc.com/ronan-farrow/watch/male-my-little-pony-fans-unite-at-bronycon-199099459516

Not to mention on Twitter he compared his dating life to Schindler's List

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 11:07am

one metrosexual deity to feed them their "news"

Sweetpea, don't put your weird sex stuff on us. Nobody pops a boner for Ronan Farrow but you.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 11:20am

unlike FOX, it's core audience is made up of morons.

"Its", you moron.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 11:23am

Wynbish, as you can tell, I just copied Jordan's post, mistake and all.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 11:26am

True, but Jordan didn't call an audience "morons," insinuating stupidity and probably lackluster grammar skills. So, it's ironic that you would call people moronic while exhibiting grammar skills that were idiotic.


Besides, the biggest morons are employed by Fox News Updated On: 10/14/14 at 11:26 AM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 2:04pm

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 10/14/14 at 5:17pm

..and happy birthday, Jordan!

[LarryD2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:32pm

Whatever "it" is--that star-making quality that the best television journalists have--Ronan's never had it. That said, I've always wondered why the network that was so interested in turning him into a brand saddled him with potentially the worst time slot in the line-up. The audience they were trying to attract with him would presumably be otherwise occupied in the middle of the day with, y'know, work. The network deserves as much blame for putting so much stock in an untested non-journalist as Farrow himself deserves for not growing at all in his role.

If he's canned, though, he'll land on his feet. It never hurts to have a pretty face, a famous last name, and a few prestigious degrees. And I bet some of MSNBC's stable of young climbers (Kornacki, Melber, Krystal Ball) are sharpening their claws to get his spot.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:38pm

They should give that time slot to Craig Melvin.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:45pm

I've heard Melvin is being strongly considered for Chuck Todd's old job.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:47pm

Oh, that would be awesome!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:45pm

Miss Ball should have used her middle name. How the hell can anybody take her seriously? Why not let her co-host a show with Mike Hunt?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:57pm

I always wonder if her parents hoped she'd grow up to be a stripper.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:21pm

She's said they were hippies, I believe.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:32pm

Real hippie parents would have been cool with her picking another name, man.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:35pm

Maybe if they had, like, a crystal ball or something they could have seen what it would do to her, man. Or something like that.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:39pm

Krystal Ball always reminds me of the Barr kids that I went to high school with: Clark Barr and his sister, Candice "Candy" Barr. Still, she would never change it. She might get ridicule, but it's not a name you're going to forget easily.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 4:51pm

Hippie parents give their kids names like River, Rain or Summer.

Poor white trash parents give their kids names like Krystal Ball or Shepherd Smith.

Crazy people give their kids names like Ronan, Satchel or Moses