NewsBusters’ Paul Bremmer writes about MSNBC’s Alex Witt going down the MSNBC’s rabbit hole into POV wonderland…
MSNBC’s Alex Witt told a whopper on Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt while chatting with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). The senator was on to discuss the gun control bill that he and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa) have authored. Manchin used the on-air opportunity to beg viewers and fellow senators to support his bill, and he found at least one willing supporter in the host who was interviewing him. At the end of the interview, Witt told him, “I don’t often weigh in with my personal opinion, but I’m behind you 100 percent. Good luck.”
Bremmer goes on to list other instances he says show Witt throwing her opinion about…but I’m only going to talk about this one because I consider most of the others in the nitpicky vein. I won’t say I was crestfallen to read about this but I was very disappointed. Witt was always one of the anchors I would point to as being exemplary at doing news anchoring well and not succumbing to some of tendencies some of her co-anchors have displayed on occasion in recent years as MSNBC has lurched harder into POV analysis. Now this happens. To use a car analogy here, I wouldn’t be interested in trading it in for a new model but some of the shine has just worn off.
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