Following the departure of Rick Kaplan, NBC News vice president Phil Griffin has been promoted to executive-in-charge of MSNBC. In addition, The Abrams Report host Dan Abrams will take over as general manager.
Meanwhile, MSNBC vice president Bill Wolff had this to say about the network’s strategy for competing with ratings frontrunner Fox News:
Like Fox and Headline News, MSNBC’s primetime fare is hosted by personalities who are encouraged to express strong opinions. “All of our programs are slanted,” Wolff proudly said. “The difference is that we have more slants that Fox. We try to differentiate ourselves as having a much wider spectrum of voices.”
“More slants.” Take that, Fox News.