Cenk Uygur
Former MSNBC anchor Cenk Uygur is the co-founder and main host of the left-leaning online media outlet ‘The Young Turks’, that according to him is the “biggest online news show in the world”.[1] Uygur, a Turk, is an Armenian holoaust denier.
Despite good ratings while Uygur hosted MSNBC Live for six months, he was not offered a permanent role.[2] According to his version of events, his departure from the network was because MSNBC management considered him too combative towards "those in power" and wanted him to "tone it down".[3]
Cenk Uygur and Kyle Kulinski of The Young Turks network were on the board of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Justice Democrats PAC in early December 2017, but Uygur was forced out of the organization on Dec. 22, 2017 after what Saikat Chakrabarti called “extremely disturbing sexist and racist statements” Uygur made in the early 2000s were unearthed.[4]
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References
- ↑ Cenk Uygur: 'Bernie Sanders is the political revolution, we are the media revolution'
- ↑ "Despite a significant increase in ratings while Uygur hosted MSNBC Live, he was not offered a continued prime-time hosting role." Making the News Popular: Mobilizing U.S. News Audiences, Anthony Nadler, University of Illinois Press, 2016
- ↑ Cenk Uygur On Leaving MSNBC
- ↑ https://twitter.com/justicedems/status/944356205476106240/photo/1
