MSNBC's 'Lockup': A Controversial Ratings Magnet

So, MSNBC, What's With All The Prison Documentaries?

'Lockup" is the crazy rich uncle of MSNBC, the relative whose gifts you accept, but whom you keep stowed away in the attic.

Like the MTV reality series "Jersey Shore," the news channel's incarceration series features plenty of bleeps and blurry hand gestures, but MSNBC insists that it's a documentary series, not a reality series, and, therefore, fits. " 'Lockup' is not MSNBC's 'Jersey Shore,' " says the channel's president, Phil Griffin.

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