MSNBC Claims It’s Now Independent Media

After getting booted from NBC, Morning Joe is struggling to spin the split

There’s a new crew in the independent journalism space: the corporate media conglomerate formerly known as MSNBC!

After NBC announced that they would be splitting off from MSNBC, a new logo and name were announced, with the stragglers on the network left swimming in the open seas of independent media. It’s going to be called MS Now, which Joe Scarborough says through clenched jaw and held-back tears stands for My Source Now.

But it’s good, he forces himself to say, no really it’s good. It’s BETTER this way actually. Yeah that’s right, yeah, no yeah, yeah yeah…

It hurts to even imagine a world where MSNBC could be considered independent journalism, but Aaron says there is ONE WAY that the network could prove itself, ONE THING they could do that would get him to accept them: