At the crossroads of news and opinion, ‘Morning Joe’ hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting

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At the crossroads of news and opinion, ‘Morning Joe’ hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting​


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FILE - MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, right, attend the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, April 22, 2013. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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By DAVID BAUDER

Updated 7:02 PM EST, November 26, 2024


One of the striking things about how furiously many people reacted to the news last week that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-Elect Donald Trump was how quaint their defenders sounded.

“It is insane for critics to NOT think all of us in the media need to know more so we can share/report more,” Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Axios and Politico, said on social media.

It would be journalistic malpractice for the hosts of a morning television news program not to take a meeting with a president-elect, right? But “Morning Joe” isn’t traditional journalism, and last week’s incident is a telling illustration of the broader trend of impartial fact-finding being crowded out in the marketplace by opinionated news and the expectations that creates.

Scarborough, a former congressman, and his wife, veteran newswoman Brzezinski, didn’t just talk about the presidential campaign from their four-hour weekday perch. They tirelessly and emotionally advocated for Democrat Kamala Harris, likening Trump to a fascist-in-waiting.

“They have portrayed themselves as bastions of integrity standing up to a would-be dictator,” says Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief now professor at George Washington University’s school of media and public affairs. “What the followers see is the daily procession of people on the show constantly talking about the evils of Donald Trump and then Joe and Mika show up and have high tea with the guy.”
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At the crossroads of news and opinion, 'Morning Joe' hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting

One of the striking things about how furiously many people reacted to the news last week that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-Elect Donald
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The social media blowback was instant and intense. “You do not need to talk to Hitler to cover him effectively,” was one of the nicer messages.
More telling is the people who have responded with action.
“Morning Joe” had 770,000 viewers last Monday, its audience — like many shows on MSNBC — down from its yearly average of 1.09 million because some of the network's liberal-leaning viewers have tuned away after what they regard as depressing election results. That's the day Scarborough and Brzezinski announced they had met with Trump the previous Friday.
By Tuesday, the “Morning Joe” audience had slipped to 680,000, according to the Nielsen company, and Wednesday's viewership was 647,000. Thursday rebounded to 707,000. It's only three days of data, but those are the kind of statistics about which television executives brood.
“The audience for the polarized news-industrial complex has become unforgiving,” says Kate O'Brian, outgoing head of news of the E.W. Scripps Co.
The Washington Post learned this last month when it lost a reported 250,000 subscribers — presumably the bulk of them non-Trump supporters — after announcing it would not endorse a candidate for president. A draft of an editorial endorsing Harris had already been in the works.
 
ExpressLane said:
Liberal media is imploding. Turns out you can only lie to people for so long.
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Indeed.

In the past, most working parents came home, exhausted, prepared a meal for the children, watched a few minutes of network news and went to bed, unaware of what was really happening in America.

No more, they can now access news from multiple sources at any time.

The only MSM that I trust anymore is FOX News and NewsMax.
 
Earl said:
Scarborough, a former congressman, and his wife, veteran newswoman Brzezinski, didn’t just talk about the presidential campaign from their four-hour weekday perch. They tirelessly and emotionally advocated for Democrat Kamala Harris, likening Trump to a fascist-in-waiting.

“They have portrayed themselves as bastions of integrity standing up to a would-be dictator,” says Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief now professor at George Washington University’s school of media and public affairs. “What the followers see is the daily procession of people on the show constantly talking about the evils of Donald Trump and then Joe and Mika show up and have high tea with the guy.”
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Any rational, honest, unbiased assessment of trump would do exactly the same thing, because those things are exactly what trump is.

And not surprisingly, his water toting toadies, bootlickers and lickspittles all hide behind the normally valid notion of journalistic non-bias, as a flimsy ploy to demonize those in the media who tell the truth about trump.

Just because the truth about a politician is horrible, as the truth about trump is, does not make reporting that horribleness, unfair or biased.

If trump didn't behave like trump, they wouldn't treat him in that manner.
 
Nomad said:
Really?

How long are you idiots going to allow trump to lie to you?

Because he's been doing it since day one and you're still gobbling his lies down like starving dogs on a buffet.
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Trump, Trump, Trump!

Trump.

Hopefully, he will serve three terms, Nomady.

Poor Nomady.
 
Nomad said:
Any rational, honest, unbiased assessment of trump would do exactly the same thing, because those things are exactly what trump is.

And not surprisingly, his water toting toadies, bootlickers and lickspittles all hide behind the normally valid notion of journalistic non-bias, as a flimsy ploy to demonize those in the media who tell the truth about trump.

Just because the truth about a politician is horrible, as the truth about trump is, does not make reporting that horribleness, unfair or biased.

If trump didn't behave like trump, they wouldn't treat him in that manner.
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Yet you useless maggots won't stop him from taking control of the govt.
 
Earl said:

At the crossroads of news and opinion, ‘Morning Joe’ hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting​


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FILE - MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, right, attend the 2013 Matrix New York Women in Communications Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, April 22, 2013. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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By DAVID BAUDER

Updated 7:02 PM EST, November 26, 2024


One of the striking things about how furiously many people reacted to the news last week that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-Elect Donald Trump was how quaint their defenders sounded.

“It is insane for critics to NOT think all of us in the media need to know more so we can share/report more,” Jim VandeHei, co-founder of Axios and Politico, said on social media.

It would be journalistic malpractice for the hosts of a morning television news program not to take a meeting with a president-elect, right? But “Morning Joe” isn’t traditional journalism, and last week’s incident is a telling illustration of the broader trend of impartial fact-finding being crowded out in the marketplace by opinionated news and the expectations that creates.

Scarborough, a former congressman, and his wife, veteran newswoman Brzezinski, didn’t just talk about the presidential campaign from their four-hour weekday perch. They tirelessly and emotionally advocated for Democrat Kamala Harris, likening Trump to a fascist-in-waiting.

“They have portrayed themselves as bastions of integrity standing up to a would-be dictator,” says Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief now professor at George Washington University’s school of media and public affairs. “What the followers see is the daily procession of people on the show constantly talking about the evils of Donald Trump and then Joe and Mika show up and have high tea with the guy.”
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At the crossroads of news and opinion, 'Morning Joe' hosts grapple with aftermath of Trump meeting

One of the striking things about how furiously many people reacted to the news last week that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-Elect Donald
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I'm no fan of these two shit stains but they at least made the gesture to talk with Trump. I appreciate the effort but they have since come to learn what happens when you run afoul of the deranged leftist narrative.
 
Yakuda said:
I'm no fan of these two shit stains but they at least made the gesture to talk with Trump. I appreciate the effort but they have since come to learn what happens when you run afoul of the deranged leftist narrative.
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Their motivation was their jobs.

They attacked Trump daily and now they go on their hands and knees because they are worried about their jobs.
 
Earl said:
Their motivation was their jobs.

They attacked Trump daily and now they go on their hands and knees because they are worried about their jobs.
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Indeed

Did you hear whoopi dip shit the other day say how they gotta give trump a chance? Hilarious
 
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