{"id":64717,"date":"2025-01-13T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64717"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:36:32","slug":"good-news-rachel-maddow-will-return-to-airing-5-days-a-week-for-the-first-100-days-of-trump-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64717","title":{"rendered":"GOOD NEWS: Rachel Maddow Will Return to Airing 5 Days a Week for the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tsunami of unsettling reports that have saturated the media in recent weeks has cast a pall on the newborn year of 2025. They include the unfolding consequences of the last November’s election, the persistent news of deadly conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and of course, the catastrophic wildfires that have ravaged several neighborhoods in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Amidst all of those harrowing happenings the nation has also had to contend with the dystopian soap opera surrounding the reoccupation of the White House by Donald Trump. His toxic tendencies and temper tantrums have lived up to the worst predictions made prior to his unwelcome ascendancy. He has even managed to combine separate awful affairs to merge into mega-monstrosities.<\/p>\n

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So it comes with some relief to learn that there will be some respite in the storm of psychobabble that consumes America’s airwaves. MSNBC has just announced that Rachel Maddow, who has been on the air weekly for the past several months, is returning to a five-day-a-week schedule<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“MSNBC fans are about to get a bigger dose of its marquee host: For the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency, ‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ will revert to its former five-night-a-week schedule.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is significant to note that this is a temporary change that will be in place for the first 100 days of Trump’s second term in office. Those will be particularly volatile days in the words of Trump himself, who has promised that “all hell will break loose.”<\/em> He has said that there will a hundred or more executive orders from day one, a day on which he is also planning the biggest mass deportation in history.<\/p>\n

Consequently, Maddow will have her hands full for the duration of her extended broadcasts. And it’s safe to predict that not much of the rest of the media will be covering the issues as thoroughly and honestly as she will. Alex Wagner, who has been airing on Tuesday through Friday, will take to the road for special reports on “Trumpland: The First 100 Days,”<\/em> before returning to her anchor desk in May.<\/p>\n

For a sneak preview of Maddow’s priorities for her program, what follows are some of her answers in an interview<\/a><\/strong> about the schedule change.<\/p>\n

Question:<\/strong> What’s it going to be like covering Trump in 2025 vs. 2017? Have you learned any lessons from his first administration?
\nAnswer:<\/strong> In the first Trump term, one of the things that we learned was this idea of watching what they do, not what they say. Trump is a real master of shifting the news cycle toward himself and away from himself as best suits his purposes, simply by saying really transgressive and shocking things all the time. […]<\/p>\n

We’re already seeing the freneticism of the Trump news cycle taking over, even during the transition. We’re seeing the unpredictable cadence of the way news breaks as opposed to a more competent rational administration. So we’ll see; we’re trying to be ready for anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Question:<\/strong> There seems to be an exhaustion factor about Trump news. Do you agree, and if so, is it understandable, unhealthy, or both?
\nAnswer:<\/strong> Everybody sort of implicitly knows that pretending something isn’t happening does not ensure that the thing doesn’t actually happen; there’s a sort of head-in-the-sand wish casting that’s happening with a lot of people checking out of the news, thinking ‘If I don’t hear about it, if I don’t look at it, then maybe it’s not happening.’ But people know that’s not actually the way to stop it from happening.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Question:<\/strong> Trump has long attacked the press as the enemy…How do you deal with that?
\nAnswer:<\/strong> As long as we’re still here, our job is pretty clear: Follow the facts, don’t be intimidated, tell true stories, help people understand the world. And I’m going to keep doing that […] Americans broadly know that we need a free press. We don’t need just state TV; we don’t need to have the government control the media, as happens in authoritarian countries. You want a free and independent and even oppositional press if you want a healthy country, and I think the country recognizes that. All of us in the business recognize that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It will be refreshing to get Maddow’s insights on a more frequent basis while Trump and his MAGA media minions seek to deflect and distort what they are doing. And hopefully she will have some influence on her peers that results in better journalism all around. Especially while so many lies are proliferating on social media platforms that have abandoned fact-checking and thus, their responsibility to the their readers, their nation, and the world.<\/p>\n

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