MSNBC: The World’s Favorite American Meltdown—Now Streaming with Subtitles
MSNBC: America’s Cable Therapy Session, Exported An international correspondent’s notebook on the channel that turned partisan outrage into a 24-hour spectator sport—and accidentally became a soft-power export. The first time I watched MSNBC in a hotel bar in Nairobi, the closed-captioning was in Swahili and the chyron screamed “BREAKING: DEMOCRACY IN PERIL.” The patrons, mostly…