CNN anchor Jake Tapper took purpose at MSNBC with a pointed on-air comment Thursday after it was revealed that the liberal community was utilizing an LED display screen to cowl the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee from their studio in New York Metropolis.
“We’re right here stay, versus another networks that simply have an enormous LED, who shall stay anonymous,” Tapper mentioned throughout an interview with Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.
The New York Occasions reported on Wednesday that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who has been main the community’s protection of the GOP conference this week, has repeatedly appeared on air with the backdrop of the conference behind her, main informal viewers to imagine she was on the bottom in Milwaukee. However Maddow and plenty of of her colleagues, together with Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Pleasure Reid and different MSNBC anchors haven’t been contained in the conference corridor and even in the identical metropolis, in keeping with the Occasions report.
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“As an alternative, they had been broadcasting from a studio in Midtown Manhattan, as a stay feed of the conference flooring was projected onto an LED display screen behind them,” the Occasions report reads.
“The association — which a number of veteran tv information producers described as unorthodox — has created one thing of a trompe l’oeil impact. An off-the-cuff look on the display screen would counsel that MSNBC’s high anchors had been overlaying the conference in individual,” the article continues, utilizing a French phrase referring to extremely realistic-looking however visually misleading art work.
MSNBC did beforehand announce final week that Maddow and different high political anchors wouldn’t journey to Milwaukee for the conference. As an alternative, the community despatched Stephanie Ruhle, who hosts “The eleventh Hour,” and daytime host Katy Tur, per the Occasions.
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An MSNBC spokesman informed the Occasions that at “the highest of each broadcast, hosts establish themselves as being in New York or at MSNBC headquarters.” However critics say the stay video feed of a bustling conference behind them sends a distinct impression to viewers tuning in all through the evening.
Tapper made the remark moments earlier than former President Trump accepted the 2024 Republican nomination.
MSNBC didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.