Scarborough: ‘We Have No Idea What’s Going On’ in Ferguson from 3-Second Videos

‘We show a three-second clip up and then there is a pregnant pause that hangs over the set? We aren’t in their positions and we don’t know what they are going through’

‘We Have No Idea What’s Going On’: How Not to Cover Ferguson, in OneMorning Joe Clip (Mediaite)

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough got called out last week for long-distance punditry by on-the-ground reporter Wesley Lowery, who told Scarborough get to Ferguson before he sounded off on events there. Alas, the morning show’s Monday coverage was an even worse case study in how to run a cable news segment on a real-time centrifugal situation.

Things took a turn for the worse when cohostMika Brzezinski showed a clip of an officerthreatening a radio reporter, from a video that went viral Sunday night. Scarborough, showing he appreciates context when he wants to, immediately called foul. “Hold on a second, we have no idea what is going on there! We show thirty seconds of clips and, by the way, we don’t know what is happening in the street! …We show a three-second clip up and then there is a pregnant pause that hangs over the set? We aren’t in their positions, and we don’t know what they are going through!”

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