MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Admits Network ‘Vibe’ Doesn’t Favor Trump
MSNBC host Jen Psaki admitted this week that viewers of the network tune in because they are looking for coverage of President Trump that is “typically not going to be positive.”
The former press secretary for Joe Biden discussed the networks tilt on The Grill Room podcast hosted by Dylan Byers.
“There’s obviously a rooted value in the kind of … that MSNBC viewers expect of like we’re going to talk about the opposition, and we’re going to talk about what the opposing party is up to, in terms of the Democrats, and we’re going to talk about future leaders and things,” she told Byers.
“And we’re also going to talk about Trump, and it’s typically not going to be positive. I don’t think anybody watching expects it to be positive, right? There’s not like a North Star thing written on a card, and everybody does it slightly differently, but I think that’s fairly the vibe.”
Psaki said that while she has had Republicans on her program, it wasn’t an effort to appeal to bring right-wing viewers to her program or the network.
“I have not experienced this like, ‘You have to move to the center, you have to have Republicans on, you have to be more moderate, you can’t say that thing,’” she continued.
“What’s unique is that every show kind of has a bit of a North Star, but the vibe is, kind of, under the same umbrella.”
MSNBC which trails Fox News by a wide margin in the ratings has seen its ratings drop in the last year with total primetime viewers down by 10%, and the all-important A25-54 demo down 18% despite the network serving as a haven for liberals, anti-Trumpers and never Trumpers
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Donald Irvine is the chairman of of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education. Irvine follows his father’s legacy, Reed Irvine, to critically analyze the liberal media’s bias and brings over thirty years of media analysis experience. He has published countless blog posts and articles on media bias, in context of current events, and he has been interviewed by many news media outlets during his professional career. He currently hosts a livestream weekly show on AIA’s Facebook page which discusses current events.
Irvine graduated from the University of Maryland and rose up the ranks to become chairman of Accuracy in Media until his transition to AIA.
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