Anna Young writes for the New York Post about an interesting admission from a former Democratic White House mouthpiece.
MSNBC host Jen Psaki admitted Tuesday that her cable news network’s liberal-leaning audience only tunes in to watch coverage of President Trump that is “typically not going to be positive.”
Viewers of the embattled network don’t expect to hear favorable news coverage or commentary about the commander-in-chief, Psaki, the onetime press secretary for President Joe Biden, revealed during an appearance on “The Grill Room” podcast.
“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 Dylan 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 noted that while she has featured Republicans on her cable news program, she’s never been directed by her bosses to appeal to right-leaning viewers.
“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.”
Psaki recently secured a new primetime slot as part of a massive shakeup at the embattled network — taking over 9 p.m. duties Thursday and Friday from ousted host Alex Wagner in two weeks, the network announced in February.
