Marketwatch’s Jon Friedman peers into his crystal ball and predicts a good year for MSNBC In 2006. He says MSNBC is “in” and CNN and Fox are “out:”

“The egregious Rita Cosby and her sensationalist nonsense to the contrary, MSNBC, a unit of General Electric, has been quietly showing serious improvement in its reporting and programming. The perennial laughingstock of TV news may soon begin to gain on CNN (which is merely an occasional laughingstock). If President Bush’s approval rating continues to drag, Fox could feel a pinch, too As Bush goes, so goes Fox.” (Via Gawker)