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Recently, Politico, MediaITE, and other sources made it public that MSNBC’s The Ed Show would be canceled and the Ed Schultz time slot would be filled by “moderate” Chuck Todd.
In February, mediamatters.org conducted an interesting study on what news shows cover the TPP trade agreement, and what shows don’t.
Mediamatters.org had done a transcript search of the major news networks (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) as well as for the nightly news shows on the three major broadcast networks (CBS Evening News, ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC’s Nightly News) as well as PBS NewsHour.
The search involved shows from August 1, 2013, through January 31, 2015.
Mediamatters.org wrote that of the three news networks, “only The Ed Show Devoted Significant Coverage To The TPP. During the same 18-month period, CNN and Fox News each mentioned the TPP during two broadcasts. MSNBC’s The Ed Show discussed the trade agreement on 71 broadcasts…”
Also, PBS mentioned the TPP eight times, and the three major nightly news shows (on CBS, ABC, and NBC) made no mention of the TPP whatsoever on their nightly news broadcasts during that time period.
(Updated report)
http://www.alternet.org/media/msnbc-cans-only-cable-tv-host-who-extensively-covered-tpp
http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/07/comcast-killed-the-ed-show-for-talking-about-tpp/
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/02/04/study-tv-news-shows-largely-ignore-historic-tra/202403
OK, Fine. 
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