{"id":351658,"date":"2018-03-11T02:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/msnbcs-stormy-daniels-gossip-eclipses-north-korea-coverage\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T02:07:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:07:58","slug":"msnbcs-stormy-daniels-gossip-eclipses-north-korea-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/msnbcs-stormy-daniels-gossip-eclipses-north-korea-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC\u2019s Stormy Daniels Gossip Eclipses North Korea Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/bill-dagostino\/2018\/03\/09\/obsessed-msnbcs-stormy-daniels-gossip-eclipses-north-korea\"><strong>Newsbusters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 10, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the startling news broke late Thursdy that President Trump had accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the media intelligentsia begrudgingly shifted their focus away from the Stormy Daniels controversy. But with the leak of an e-mail sent by Trump\u2019s lawyer from his Trump Organization account, they leapt on the excuse to return to their preferred topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between noon and 5:00 p.m. Eastern, the time MSNBC spent a total of 113 minutes on Stormy Daniels, dwarfing the 70 minutes dedicated to North Korea. Nicolle Wallace, host of <em>Deadline: White House<\/em> gave over twice as much attention to the scandal (31 minutes vs. 14 minutes), as did her colleague Katy Tur (18 minutes vs.\u00a0seven minutes).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-filter video-mrctv video-center vf-528116 embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/528116\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell had a full hour of North Korea talk slotted for her show on Friday when news of the leaked email broke. What ensued was a bizarre melding of the topics, in which subsequent hosts rapidly alternated between the two stories, always managing to give more time to the tabloid scandal. A particularly clumsy example occurred during<em> MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin<\/em>, in which Melvin ping-ponged between two guests, having relegated one to discussing only Daniels while\u00a0 the other analyzed the Korea situation.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, hosts repeatedly inserted references to the adult actress while discussing the President\u2019s upcoming meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk that the President is trying to deflect from bad publicity about Stormy Daniels with this audible.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>Andrea Mitchell, <em>Andrea Mitchell Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cStartling news of the President\u2019s decision to plan that meeting with North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un comes, also coming at a time when the President himself is embroiled in quite the domestic controversy: the allegations by adult film star Stormy Daniels.<\/strong><br \/>Craig Melvin, <em>MSNBC Live With Craig Melvin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIs this a brilliant move,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obsessed-msnbcs-stormy-daniels-gossip-eclipses-north-korea-coverage.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsbustersMarch 10, 2018 When the startling news broke late Thursdy that President Trump had accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, the media intelligentsia begrudgingly shifted their focus away from the Stormy Daniels controversy. But with the leak of an e-mail sent by Trump\u2019s lawyer from his Trump Organization account, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}