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Butt, MSNBC!
Last week, MeganMSNBC, The Place For Politics. And The Place For News We Once Thought You Couldn’t Use But Now See That You Can. Or At Least That You Will. MSNBC, The Place for News You Can’t Use…And Can’t Escape?
While we’re questioning MSNBC’s news judgment (or at least the consistency of its application): That Sports Bra Story MSNBC has been reporting all morning? The one about the 24-year-old American injured and stranded alone in the Bavarian Alps who was rescued because she removed her sports bra and attached it to a nearby cable, thereby alerting area lumberjacks to her location? It would seem perfect “News You Can’t Use” fodder, all (under)things considered. And yet, this story got its start on MSNBC’s “Sports Shot” this morning (because, naturally, of the mountain climbing angle), with anchor Fred Roggin commenting that emergency workers reached the woman so quickly “maybe because they knew there was a bra-less woman at the summit.”
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