#the ongoing love story of chris and mika

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Chris serenading Mika with his own version of Story of My Life: “I drive the net, Mika snipes, we celly in the corner”

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Sweet Mary Mother of God

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New Post has been published on https://shovelnews.com/how-msnbc-created-a-cable-news-addiction-epidemic/

How MSNBC Created a Cable-News Addiction Epidemic

“If it bleeds it leads,” runs the old saying about local news. Family of five killed in crack-fueled home invasion on Long Island. Gang violence on the South Side. Of course, no one watches local news anymore—except, of course, the millions of people the right-wing, Trump-friendly Sinclair stations reach every day. Everyone—meaning everyone but the demographic undesirables watching local news—is watching cable news: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. A cable-network group head recently moaned to me that his demographically desirable female viewers had, en masse, ditched daytime viewing for MSNBC. As reality TV supplanted soap opera, so now cable news has supplanted reality TV. Thanks to the mix of pre-meditated and accidental outrage emanating hourly from the White House (leavened, albeit less so every day, by entertaining incompetence), cable news is where you go to tap into that need to watch stuff happen—in this case, watch our democracy implode in real time. Had Hillary won, none of this would be here. Sure, Fox News would’ve stuck around for a while, but eventually its viewers would have died off, one by one, pitching forward into their bean casseroles as Tucker Carlson made “I’m a moron” faces at them through the tee vee.

But MSNBC is now challenging Fox News for ratings supremacy. Its main anchor, Rachel Maddow, sometimes out-rates Minister of Propaganda Sean Hannity. Maddow is nominally a straight-news anchor. She does not opine openly; she doesn’t need to. She has become so intertwined with her audience, so intimately in sync with her viewers, that we look for clues in the pitch of her voice, the ratio of her funny-ha-ha faces to her funny-weird faces. Critics like to point to her showman’s over-reliance on storytelling, her long, entertaining multi-block narrative detours—achieving a level of oral folk narrative akin to Russian skaz— as a failure to just give us the facts already. But as Michael Kinsley used to point out: there are plenty of facts; the trick is making them make sense. Maddow is uniquely skilled at pulling in historical antecedents, drawing obscure connections, and smartly distinguishing among known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns. And she is almost alone in understanding the urgency and danger of this moment.

Photos by Heidi Gutman/ABC/Getty Images (Maddow), by Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic (O’Donnell).

MSNBC intuited the nature of the resistance early, quickly promoting its cadre of young, competent, but also, it must be said, unusually winsome reporters to host slots throughout the day. Kasie Hunt, 33, whose excellent Sunday-night show, Kasie DC, is often promoted with a quick AC/DC flare-up, cocks her head slightly to the left and offers a shy smile before delivering the daily horrors. Capping a daytime run of women anchors is fact-based Republican Nicolle Wallace, whose palpable outrage is tempered by “Isn’t this all absurd?” laughter. Heading into the evening hours, the network promoted secret fourth Beastie Boy Ari Melber to the six-o’clock hour and installed guy-your-sister-should’ve-married, Maddow protégé Chris Hayes in the eight-o’clock slot. Melber and Hayes, both shy of 40 and both shockingly smart and well read, port a bit of daytime’s just-back-from-Coachella vibe to the evening hours, providing a counterpoint to Maddow and the slightly world-weary sangfroid of MSNBC’s well-cured inside-the-Beltway alpha males, Chris Matthews (the bumptious one), Lawrence O’Donnell (the mordant one), and Brian Williams (the just-starting-to-age-into-avuncular one). Oddly, perhaps, given that MSNBC is signaling “We got next” millennial optimism, there are only three regular nonwhite hosts: Ali Velshi, a Muslim of Indian extraction; the very un-millennial civil-rights warhorse Al Sharpton; and Joy Reid, who gets to host the weekend early-morning slots previously held by an earlier MSNBC African-American host, Melissa Harris-Perry.

Morning Joe, with its host fiancés, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, is a soap opera of its own. This is not just because of the danger, danger, high-voltage courtship of its co-hosts but also because of their multi-year ménage à trois with Donald Trump, whose self-love loomed over the proceedings each morning during the campaign, phoning in (from bed, it seemed) to goof off live on early-morning TV. When Joe and Mika finally, inevitably, turned on Trump last year, he responded like a spurned lover, describing Brzezinski as bleeding from plastic surgery. Morning Joe has been a masterpiece of triangulation: after competing with CNN to give Trump uncritical airtime in 2016, it has morphed into the smartest critique of Trump and Trumpism outside of Maddow.

Which brings us to the problem with MSNBC and this cable-news moment in general. It is not bias, though Fox News goes far beyond mere bias to provide an all-sheltering disinformation bubble. It is the way cable news traps us in the daily drama, forces us to watch the news ping-pong back and forth across our screens, locked in a variant version of the feelings Alex Heard first called hathos—hate + pathos—the cringe-y pleasure derived from watching bad things happen to other people. In this case, the pleasure is mostly gone, but the hathotic (if I may) compulsion grows ever stronger, because the bad things are happening, or are about to happen, to us.

MSNBC, like Fox News, uses remarkable message discipline to keep focus on each day’s A-story. That’s short-now thinking, which was O.K. at a time of less moment. Right now, it’s the long now that requires attention: Dark historical forces are moving the ground beneath our feet. Democracy is in danger here and around the world. Maddow’s boomeranging history lessons, which return elegantly to bong us in the head with their chilling resonances, and the estimable house historians Jon Meacham and Michael Beschloss, give us glimpses into where we’re headed. But, in general, cable news, by its form and shape, with its endless natter, its parade of talking heads competing for the most Twitter-worthy sound bite (I’m one), obscures what is actually going on. News failed us in the last election, and prevents us now from understanding how deeply rotten our culture and political systems have become.

The extant TV-news model, developed over years of budget cuts and continuously iterated tweaks, feedback looping with minute-by-minute ratings, has settled on a format of competing natterers, minimal enterprise reporting (Jacob Soboroff’s coverage of the maltreatment of migrant children sticking out all the more for its rareness), and relentless micro-topicality. The net result has been to effectively gamify politics: Chris Matthews’s Hardball is “where the action is.” Showtime’s smart politics series is called The Circus. CNN, blindly following a framing that’s been in place since The Making of the President in 1968, declares Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a huge “win” for Trump.

We’re all part of this game, of course. We believe that by keeping up with the news on a minute-by-minute basis, and maybe by banging out a few tweets and Facebook posts to enter our outrage into vast databases of outrage and counter-outrage, we have meaningfully participated in the ongoing political conversation. But what we’re really doing is enabling a kind of pseudo-discourse—a miasma of ephemera and misinformation—that sucks us into the Trumpian post-meaning vortex. Form, as Neil Postman wrote 33 years ago, excludes substance. We are left feeling some combination of overwhelmed, bloated, trapped, morally outraged, and, even still, mesmerized. It’s all too horrible; maybe I’ll stick around for Lawrence.

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/how-msnbc-created-a-cable-news-addiction-epidemic

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It’s canon, y’all

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Christopher

“Zibanejabedajad”

That’s the face of a man who’s very proud of his trolling

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First game of THE PRESEASON and they’re out here doing this already

Buckle up, y’all

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Oh, come on

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Sure, okay

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Someone please tell me they giffed Kreider shoving his boyfriend lovingly after said boyfriend scored

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Do you have/ know of a good Chris/Mika primer?

This is a joke, right

Like I’m being pranked right now?

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#mika's like 'but if you shave your head how can i pull your hair' and suddenly chris decides the q-tip look isn't all it's cracked up to be

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This is fine

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The Edmonton Oil Kings (Luke Prokop’s team) just won the WHL Championship, which proves the gays can’t stop winning

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Chris serenading Mika with his own version of Story of My Life: “I drive the net, Mika snipes, we celly in the corner”

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“average person destroys 1000 mouthguards a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person destroys 0 mouthguards per year. Mouthguards Matthew, who lives in Calgary & destroys over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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All I’m saying is maybe society has evolved past the need for the Tampa Bay Lightning

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Chris and Mika primer pt 2

I was going to add to the original post but there is way too much, it’d end up “the color of the sky” length and y’all would hate me. Instead, go read part 1 and then come back and read the update.

Mika had covid before the 2020-21 year and a slow start to the season because of it. Chris got asked about it and nearly ate a reporter’s face

When Mika began to find his groove again, everyone was happy for him but all he really cared about was Chris’s response

Chris has protected Mika on and off the ice since time immemorial (or 2016 at least) and did not take kindly to TK tripping him

He also still can’t control his Mika face

Any more than Mika can stop his Chris smile

Chris got sent to the All Star Game and all he wanted was for Mika to go with (he was actually voted in by fans but sadly couldn’t attend, Chris was distraught)

They still have fun in practice and can’t keep their hands off each other

Btw we also learned Mika likes to shop boutique fashion (of course he does) and he buys things for Chris there too

Chris got a hatty and no one was prouder than Mika

Possibly my favorite video of them ever. Mika hates interviews and Chris crashed this one solely to rescue him. Please watch for the way Mika lights up, the soft “thank God you’re here” and scooting the mic over, the nonverbal communication, and the way Chris teases him but then takes over and answers the questions so Mika doesn’t have to

Somehow this photo existed and I didn’t know about it?? Goddamn travesty, I tell you

We got some new players and Chris made it clear from the beginning that he doesn’t share Mika with anyone

Mika casually kissing Chris’s helmet

They still can’t stop hugging

THE IPAD INCIDENT!! Mika hit the post on a shot and wanted to watch the replay to beat himself up about it. Chris was having none of it. “He was second-guessing himself and I didn’t like that very much.” Here’s a clip of the original video 

Mika thought it was hilarious when asked about it. “Go ahead, you fucking threw it.” (Btw, Chris also replaced it, from what I heard.) The original interview, that bit starts at about 5:02

Just... cuddling on the bench

Chris still makes Mika laugh all the time

Remember how Chris protects Mika on and off the ice? During the playoffs, Mika was asked what he should have done differently after a loss, and Chris said not on my fucking watch. He took the blame and refused to allow them to pin it on Mika.

And then after we lost to the Bolts in the ECF, Chris was asked his opinion on Mika as a player and person during his exit interview and mans literally cried talking about how much he loves him. (Watch for Mika’s arm as Chris leaves the room)

Btw, Mika was in the room for literal emotional support while Chris did that interview

And finally, I leave you with this and no further comment because if I speak—

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Mika calls bullshit

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Man thanks to your primer Part 2, I watched the entire iPad-incident presser again. Can we talk about the question right *before* the iPad question? Where Mika is asked about how hard it must’ve been staying positive. You can see Mika’s face change and Chris’s 👏🏻 body 👏🏻 language 👏🏻 the entire time Mika is talking, omg. He’s seething trying not to jump down the reporter’s throat. And then the way he can’t help himself from launching into a soliloquy about Mika before anyone can ask another question. FORESHADOWING.

That's the face of a man daring you to say something negative about Mika. "Go ahead. Fuck around and find out."

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