is that a problem? joining us now a reporter for media hype. joe, does it hurt msnbc when its own boss says the network doesn't really make a priority to cover breaking news? >> absolutely. it reminds me of if you go to sizzler steakhouse and you say, hey, can i get a steak and they say, no, that's no longer on the menu. for griffin to say go to the cnn cafe, go to tgi fox if you want a national disaster, terrorist attack, maybe human interest story, we really don't do that, we're strictly politics. you're basically waving the white flag of surrender. >> in fairness to phil griffin, he doesn't have a whole stable of rotters. msnbc borrows reporters from nbc news. but the boston bombing, the cleveland kidnapping case, oklahoma tornadoes, even the philadelphia building collapse, does the fact that so much of breaking news has kind of