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Joe Scarborough Mocks Donald Trump After Latest Ratings Jab
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Former President Donald Trump went after a couple of MSNBC anchors Monday, releasing a statement attacking “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
“Will Morning Joe be canceled? He and Mika’s ratings are very low—they are having an extremely hard time finding an audience to listen to the Fake News they spurn. Losing them would be very sad—hope it doesn’t happen!” Trump’s statement said.
Scarborough appeared surprised and charmed by the former president releasing a statement to attack their show out of nowhere.
While Scarborough was having fun with Trump’s statement, Brzezinski added by saying, “we do spurn Fake News” as the entire panel laughed at the former president’s choice of word to use in his statement.
“I never heard him talk about spurn, using that as a word,” Scarborough said. “I don’t use the word; it’s new vocabulary! Secondly, he can’t quit us! Even says that would be a shame, that would be a shame, with Morning Joe.”
“Well, thank you, Mr. President, we appreciate that we’ve been talking football for two hours; I’m surprised… he likes football, Rev you’d think, he likes boxing. You think maybe he’d write a little about our commentary on the Cowboys game or, I don’t know, perhaps talk about MLK Day.”
Carl Bernstein: Local Journalism in America Is a Disgrace
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Journalist Carl Bernstein, who, along with Bob Woodward, uncovered the Watergate political scandal, spoke to CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss how much journalism has changed for the worst.
“Today, we see how much reporting — if it’s called that — is done from people looking up things on Google and thinking, ‘Oh, that’s how I’m going to get the story,’” Bernstein told Cooper.
“You need to be listening to people, and you need to be learning their stories. You need to go to their relatives. You need to go to their bosses, and you just keep persevering.”
Bernstein also discussed learning to work local beats and the significance of community reporting. However, in today’s journalism world, many newspapers are shrinking and going away, resulting in the extinction of local news publications and the consolidation of small-market media.
“Local newspapers are gone … and local news sites and local reporting have largely disappeared,” Bernstein said. “If you look at local news on television, it’s pretty much in disgrace all over America.”
The former Washington Post journalist stated that one of the causes of local media going away is journalists constructing controversy as a form of journalism.
“We have a thing in television, especially. Shove a microphone in somebody’s face, get a good quote that seems to be controversial, run back, put it on the air,” Bernstein said.
“That’s not the best obtainable version of the truth. It’s trying to manufacture controversy. That’s not what our job ought to be.”
Ted Koppel: ‘Opinions Belong on the Opinion Page’
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Former President Donald Trump provided cable television news channels with a lot of material during his four years in charge. In an appearance on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live,” Ted Koppel stated his displeasure towards the news media on how they covered Trump.
“I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about the New York Times these days, when you talk about the Washington Post these days,” Koppel said.
“We’re not talking about the New York Times of 50 years ago. We are not talking about the Washington Post of 50 years ago. We’re talking about organizations that I believe have, in fact, decided as organizations that Donald J. Trump is bad for the United States.”
The former “Nightline” anchor conveyed his views about media bias and his desire that news versus opinion had a more significant discrepancy.
“I think opinion belongs on the opinion page. That’s why they call it the op-ed section,” Koppel said. “That’s where the opinion pieces are, the columns, that’s where the editorials are, and that’s where it belongs. I don’t like seeing opinion being expressed on the front page of a great newspaper.”
Abrams said that Trump feels like a particular case as he’s one of the most polarizing figures in American politics, so the way the media covers him has to be different. Nonetheless, Koppel disagreed.
“Do you feel that way about anybody else in politics?,” he asked. “Are we going to start picking up our morning newspaper to see who is in and who is out, in terms of the news coverage? Again, there’s a place for that in the op-ed section. I don’t like it on the front page.”
Wife of Kansas deputy battling COVID-19 says ‘I thought I was watching my husband die’
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Associated Press
Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new year, the deadliest blaze in the city in more than a century. A funeral procession on the rain-soaked streets of the city Monday morning was followed by services at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, to which members of the community were invited and asked to wear white. “None of us know what to do with a funeral with 12 people," said the Reverend Dr. Alyn Waller of the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.