What’s the right way to cover a second Trump term?
KCRW's Left, Right & Center
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4.2 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are facing significant pushback for a recent visit to Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate. The MSNBC commentators told their audience they wanted to hear from Trump directly as he prepares for his second presidential term. Was the meeting good reporting, or simply self-serving?
United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy believes America is experiencing a “loneliness epidemic,” which hits young people especially hard. He talks about ways to feel more connected and fulfilled, and how parents can care for their mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to left, right and center, everybody. |
| 0:02.1 | I'm David Green with Sarah Isker and Moalathie. |
| 0:04.6 | We are doing our show this week with a live audience here at New York University. |
| 0:09.1 | NYU has welcomed us as part of their In Dialogue series. |
| 0:13.0 | These are events designed to grow our capacity to listen and value different perspectives, |
| 0:18.2 | which is so in line with the mission of our show. |
| 0:23.2 | And I want to start by picking up on a, shall I say, robust conversation that I think we've had on the show before, |
| 0:28.7 | and that is, how should the media cover Donald Trump? We talked about candidate Trump. Now it's President Trump, and it just feels different to me. |
| 0:42.6 | And one case study not long ago, MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzynski, |
| 0:49.9 | they took a little trip to Mar-Lago to meet with President-elect Trump. |
| 0:54.6 | They have compared him to Hitler in the past, but they said on air that they wanted to restart |
| 1:01.5 | communications with Trump and be, well, good reporters and talk to the people who they're covering. |
| 1:08.7 | Brian Stelter at CNN said his sources told him that the MSNBC host were also credibly |
| 1:15.1 | concerned that they could face governmental and legal harassment from the incoming Trump |
| 1:19.8 | administration. |
| 1:21.2 | Reactions to this Mar-a-Lago visit were mixed, I would say. |
| 1:24.5 | Some critics suggested that Joe and Mika were basically crawling to |
| 1:28.5 | see Trump and beg for forgiveness. I for one appreciated what Kelly Goff wrote in The Daily Beast, |
| 1:34.7 | and Kelly has hosted left, right and center before. She said, to their credit, by reaching out to |
| 1:38.9 | Trump, Scarborough and Brzynski are proving that they are finally putting their audience first again. |
| 1:43.9 | Their job is not to reinforce their friends' biases, |
| 1:47.4 | but to report and analyze the truth. |
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