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MSNBC fakes its day-after-Thanksgiving Morning Joe

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They actually pre-taped the show and included banter to make it seem like it was live, and didn't tell viewers it was pre-taped.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...d1e45a6de3d_story.html?utm_term=.c13410d18246


Friday’s program had all the earmarks of a typical “Morning Joe” and few viewers seemed to notice that it wasn’t happening in real time. MSNBC offered no announcement or statement to viewers that it was a taped program. The only indirect clue was at the bottom of the screen: The “Live” graphic that normally appears was removed.

The rest was cooked up to appear as if it was happening in real time.

Brzezinski opened the program by saying, “Day after Thanksgiving! Hoo! I’m stuffed.”


The second segment picked up the after-holiday theme.

“I always cook the turkey with the guts in it!” Brzezinski said.

“Joe didn’t notice. He ate the bag,” quipped co-host Willie Geist, pretending Scarborough had consumed Brzezinski’s theoretical turkey.

“It was good!” Scarborough said. He added, “Well, you know, the game made up for it . . .”

Scarborough then turned to Rick Tyler, an MSNBC contributor who was Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign spokesman. “How was your Thanksgiving?” he asked.

“Very successful,” responded Tyler. “Although the conversations were interesting.”

“I bet!” said Brzezinski.

The panel then swung into a discussion of the pedophile controversy surrounding Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

The illusion that the discussion was live was fostered by the news crawl at the bottom of the screen, which was added over the taped discussion, and a clock showing the time in various time zones.

The hosts never got around to talking about Friday morning’s biggest story, the deadly terrorist attack on a mosque in Egypt — because it hadn’t happened yet when they taped. The crawl mentioned it.
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I send my sincere condolences to the victims of "Morning Joe".





Look, we've got a "Style" WaPo article slagging MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for pulling a (maybe?) fast one so its anchors, I presume, could go home for Thanksgiving. This is the bias in media sub-forum, so:

1. What bias has Morning Joe indicated by presenting a previously taped show without announcing that it was previously taped?

2. What bias (or is it anti-bias given the lean) has WaPo shown by calling them on it?

3. Why should anyone give, nay, hope someone else gives half a **** about it?

It's stupid but what was biased?

Do they totally hate turkeys and that's bad because the parties are stuffed full of them?






I mean, are the evil liberals pretending to have eaten turkey at us for some nefarious purpose? Was Pocohantas certifiably white and they bungled it? Some dumbass executive made a decision and people who liked salaries went along with it, but what is the importance of this?


An MSNBC spokeswoman declined to comment. But an executive confirmed that the program wasn’t live. “There was no intention to trick viewers,” she said.
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Yeah, I get it. It's a weirdly stupid thing to do. But also, what's the fuss? If someone is looking to the "Style" section of a newspaper - ANY newspaper - for important political news, then that person is doing something profoundly wrong.

I've been told that Mueller's investigation is a big nothingburger. So why should anyone care about this?
 
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Who said anything was biased?

This is the forum where we talk about the media.

If the subject doesn't interest you, you can skip it.
 
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