Progressives Rip Morning Joe Corporate Duo for 'Ring-Kissing' at Mar-a-Lago | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "Trump also immediately used Brzezinski and Scarborough's "ring-kissing," as progressive news outlet The Tennessee Holler called it, "as a trophy and saying they praised him effusively.
47% : "The Holler wasn't the only critic to compare the hosts' meeting with Trump to a scene out of The Godfather.
46% : While the two journalists said they believe it is "time for a new approach" in covering the president-elect, Julianne McShane at Mother Jonespointed out that journalists "have tried" for years to talk with Trump about his perspective on issues.
44% : ""If not treated fairly, however, that will end," Trump said.
36% : He claimed Trump "seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.
35% : If Trump and his team are serious about respecting the press, they will have to engage with them -- respectfully, and on the issues -- rather than denigrate them," wrote McShane.
32% : Trump toldFox News that the meeting with Brzezinski and Scarborough -- who celebrated New Year's Eve with Trump in 2016, only to be called "crazy" and a "psycho" by him months later after their coverage angered him -- was "extremely cordial," but then issued a warning.
26% : "Trump repeatedly rebuffed sit-down interview invitations during the campaign from CBS News and NBC News, both of which Harris did do; Instead, Trump gave interviews to a bevy of right-wing male podcasters.
22% : "The hosts suggested Trump has done an about-face in his views on the media since the election, when he called journalists "the enemy camp" and the days leading up to it, when he said he wouldn't "mind" if reporters at a rally he held were shot.
9% : "Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch wrote that Brzezinski and Scarborough's "capitulation is another of my worst fears about life under Trump 47.""Those of us who plan to keep writing against Trump's autocratic ways are going to be marginalized as 'dead enders' who aren't getting with the program, which will make it easier to shut us up," said Bunch.Veteran journalist Jeff Jarvis denounced the "Morning Joe" hosts' Mar-a-Lago meeting as a "betrayal of their colleagues, democracy, and us all," and "a disgusting show of obeisance in advance."

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