The news that MySpace (NYSE:NWS-A) and News Corp. were going with NBC News and MSNBC.com for political coverage and other content was disappointing to me. While NBC may have been ok to go with, I don't see anything of value with MSNBC.com, and their slanted coverage is dull at best.
Called Decision ‘08 , it'll be a comprehensive online center for in-depth 2008 election-related news, analysis and discussion, said their press release.
Oddly, if this was only a part of the content, it would be more understandable, but to leave off the highly popular Fox News from MySpace, and its other highly-watched cable news programming is leaving a lot of content off the table. Even "The Wall Street Journal" won't be included on the site.
Who wants to watch MSNBC (NYSE:GE) instead of The Wall Street Journal?
Lee Brenner, director of IMPACT and executive producer of political programming at MySpace, had this to say about the decision: "We work with companies that are in family and out of family all the time." Which really explains nothing about the "why" of it.
It makes me wonder if the Hulu partnership with the two companies had anything to do with this. Other than that, this doesn't make a lot of sense.
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