Joe Scarborough addressed his network’s puzzling decision to cancel “Morning Joe” on Monday, saying they were told the network would air breaking news all morning, But that didn’t happen.
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Joe Scarborough: Willie, before we start the hour, I just want to have a quick word with our friends and viewers who watch our show every day. Tell me about what happened yesterday. On Sunday night, we were told, in a very uncertain way, that there would be a news feed on all NBC News channels yesterday. “Today” will be Lester Holt. Others working with you on Sunday, this will be a news source for all of NBC’s news channels. We’ll be in breaking news mode across the network yesterday.
But that didn’t happen. We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team didn’t get a good answer as to why this wasn’t happening, but it wasn’t happening.
We were also told this would happen all day long. I think after such a strong backlash yesterday morning, I think they changed their plans, so those plans changed. So there is no. You know, we’ve talked about it on the air. We talk about it on the radio because we talk about everything on the radio.
We were very surprised. We are very disappointed. If we had known that all NBC News channels wouldn’t have the only news source from NBC News, Willie, we obviously would have yesterday morning.
According to reports on Monday, the decision was made at a high level amid concerns that Donald Trump would receive any repercussions after a 20-year-old registered Republican attempted to assassinate him during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. criticize. Law enforcement agencies that responded immediately after the incident said Trump’s ear was cut by the glass of a broken teleprompter, but no medical information has been released on the nature of Trump’s injuries. One spectator died and two were seriously injured.
Why is the network afraid of criticism of Donald Trump? This is called self-censorship (something I warned about in 2016 ), the preventive self-censorship by which the media and critics respond to the rise of autocrats. This could be a sign of the rise of fascism.
The media does this for a variety of reasons, none of which have anything to do with their ostensible job as protectors of democracy or the Fourth Estate, most of which have to do with people at the top.
It was a shocking day yesterday when MSNBC’s popular anchor was pulled, and Morning Joe’s take on the situation would have been informative. It’s worth noting that Joe Scarborough is a former Republican congressman who is now an independent, and Micah is a moderate Democrat. Their views, of course, belong to the so-called liberal network.
The media used the assassination attempt to deify Trump, insulating him from criticism while concocting a notion of consensus that simply did not exist outside the media’s echo bubble, when in fact he was a central figure in the rise of political violence in America reason. After mocking Paul and Nancy Pelosi for attacking and requiring more medical intervention, including his brain surgery, than Donald Trump has faced.
A Reuters special report in August 2023 found:
“Political violence began to rise in 2016, around the time Trump was first running for president,” said Gary LaFree, a criminologist at the University of Maryland who tracked incidents from 1970 to 2020 in the Terrorism Database of such violence.
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In contrast (compared to previous decades), much of today’s political violence is directed against people—and Most fatal incidents tracked by Reuters come from the right. Since the Capitol riot, there have been 14 deadly political attacks in which the perpetrators or suspects were clearly partisan, 13 of which were right-wing attackers. There is one on the left.
Does anyone remember the media suppressing criticism of the then-Speaker in the days after that horrific attack, or tearing up at Pelosi’s calm and measured response — which was at odds with Trump’s surrogates and The vice-presidential nominee now accuses Democrats of launching an attack in stark contrast.
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