Not too long ago, Jen Psaki spent her days trying to explain the inner machinations of Washington to a crowd of skeptical journalists. On Sunday, she will become part of that horde. But if the form…
Psaki has a lot of work ahead of her. She will launch entirely different programs for Peacock and social media, concepts she says remain in development. She will also write for MSNBC’s daily newsletter and appear on various other programs as an analyst. Executives are “very aware of the fact that we need to meet viewers where they are.
One of Psaki’s greatest challenges — aside from mastering the art of reading a teleprompter and gaining the innate sense of how long she has to go before a commercial break that many TV journalists have developed — will be to convince the audience that she’s not a partisan, despite her many years of working for Democratic officials and candidates. She has worked for John Kerry and Barack Obama, as well as Biden.
“I will always be transparent when I believe in something,” she says. “I have done work before for Planned Parenthood. I’m not going to pretend I see both sides of that issue. I believe that people should be able to marry anyone that they want. I’m not going to both-sides that issue,” she says, adding: “But I also hope that I can have people from different political viewpoints on the show. I do think there is a space and a place for engaged poricidal discussion and debate.
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