How the news media is quietly preparing for a hostile second Trump administration
CNN
The startling revelation this week that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s journeyed to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump prompted a question that many members of the media are quietly asking: just how worried should journalists be?
The startling revelation this week that MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s journeyed to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump prompted a question that many members of the media are quietly asking: just how worried should journalists be? More specifically, and more practically, what preparations and precautions should news outlets take ahead of Trump’s return to power? Scarborough and Brzezinski, two old friends turned staunch opponents of Trump, wanted to meet with the president-elect, in part, over concerns about “retribution,” something Trump famously promised during his reelection campaign. The “Morning Joe” hosts are far from alone. “I do think that the current environment is going to be much more difficult than it was even in the first term for Donald Trump,” former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron told fellow journalists on a Zoom call Thursday. “You can just tell by the nominees for cabinet positions and agency heads that this will be an administration of retribution,” Baron added.