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One of my guilty pleasures was to actually watch a bit of cable in the morning, specifically Morning Joe.
Yea, you had to put up with Host Joe Scarborough pontificate about his largely unmemorable Congressional career every few minutes. But, there was some pretty good stuff going on in the realm of politics and economic policy.
Enter Trump mania. Now Morning Joe is pretty much all Trump, all the time.
It's bad enough that they cover an unserious candidate. But, they do it in a completely unserious way.
"Look at that poll, look at this poll, look what he said about, McCain, Graham, Perry, Hillary. Bush should be worried, yada yada."
And, at the end of the episode you know not one thing more about Trump, or his positions on any issue than you knew at the beginning, Get out there and do some real journalism!
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I really use to like MJ. The 6:00-6:45 slot which I would primarily catch was a good combo of the morning's headlines, some good, if silly, banter and the occassional good rant by Scarborough or Barnicle.
But then there would be mornings where they would be talking about Hillary's chances to be president. And this was at the end of 2014!!!
I guess maybe every show gets comfortable and lazy and if you're a Hannity or a Fox and Friends, you want the same repetitive drivel day after day. But I think MJ viewers wanted a little bit more.
So yeah, I stopped watching as well.