| − | Former MSNBC anchor Cenk Uygur is the co-founder and main host of the left-leaning online media outlet ''‘The Young Turks’''. Despite good ratings while Uygur hosted ''MSNBC Live'', he was not offered a contract to keep presenting the show. <ref>"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</ref>Over recent years, he’s faced increasing pressure to address his past claims that the Armenian genocide didn’t actually happen. | + | 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”''.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/apr/01/cenk-uygur-the-young-turks-bernie-sanders-political-revolution-we-are-the-media-revolution Cenk Uygur: 'Bernie Sanders is the political revolution, we are the media revolution']</ref> |
| | + | Despite good ratings while Uygur hosted ''MSNBC Live'' for six months, he was not offered a contract to keep presenting the show. <ref>"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</ref>Over recent years, he’s faced increasing pressure to address his past claims that the Armenian genocide didn’t actually happen. |