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It takes her forever to get to the point! #$%@&

posted 7 years ago by pt100
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I used to watch her because she's bright, articulate and has good researchers that dig up exclusives all the time, and also has good guest interviews. But after the election I finally gave up, because it takes her about five minutes to say what she could have said in about 30 seconds. And while she's dragging the point out painfully slowly, she repeats what is essentially the same thought over and over using only slightly different language to say the same thing. Really annoying.

I don't know, maybe they feel they don't have enough material to fill an hour, so they have to pad everything with repetitive, long-winded jabbering. That has ruined the show for me. At first I tried to fast-forward through it, but then it was hard to figure out when she was done with one thought and starting another thought. So I just gave up.

I fear that Lawrence O'Donnell is now starting to adopt the same technique, so I'll probably have to drop him as well. I wish the producers at MSNBC could get them to stop doing that. It's not suspenseful, it's just bad journalistic technique. If these monologues were newspaper articles, the editor would have slashed red lines through most of it to get it down to a reasonable length--and if it continued, the writer would be fired.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.–J.B. Haldane

[–] wesperkins 7 years ago

I have noticed this too and it's irritating, she especially does it at the beginning of the show, and keeps harping on the same point. Starts out with a story and you wonder what it has to do anything, and then she tries to tie it into a current story. This could work if she was an engaging storyteller, but it becomes annoying and you want to finish her sentences so she can get you the point. And after she picks a crazy story and tries to use it, she picks the crazy part of it and keeps talking about it. You said it right when you said she takes 5 minutes to tell us something that should have taken 30 seconds to a min. I think if this was done right, it could work, but she messed up the delivery.