Scarborough Laments New Media Outlets That Claim 'Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin Are Persecuted

Recently, MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough gave a candid assessment of his take on the pitfalls of new media.

In a video posted by Accuracy in Media and described by the group as a private "town hall" event in Charleston, South Carolina, the "Morning Joe" host assessed the contemporary media landscape. Aside from lamenting the negative influence he believes modern forms of news and communication are having on the electorate, Scarborough went on to mention Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin as being continuously portrayed as faux victims by various outlets.

As you know, new media outlets, like The Blaze, the Huffington Post and Politico, exist online and, as technologies have progressed, these outlets have grown exponentially in popularity. But for Scarborough, new media outlets are a major barrier to rational debate, as he said during the event that they've done "more than anything else to stop compromise in Washington, D.C."

"I think the biggest problem right now has to do with new media -- and I'll just say that. We're in a transition," Scarborough explained. "I wasn't a big fan of when we just had three networks...sort of a voice of God...and three networks, the New York Times and the Washington Post. They decided what the narrative was and they shoved it down our throats," he continued.

Here's where he really delved deeply into the current dilemma he sees with media:

"I think the bigger problem now with new media is that people can select what they want to hear at all times and go searching for a media outlet that conforms with their ideology 100 percent, so they wake up in the morning and they turn on a news channel -- a cable channel -- that repeats everything they believe and doesn't question any pre-existing prejudices."

The phenomenon he's speaking about here is selective exposure -- the notion that individuals expose themselves only to the information that meets their pre-existing views. While this may hold truth to some degree, there is a irony here, as MSNBC, the network Scarborough works for, would qualify as one of the "news channels" he's targeting. Of course, he wasn't done describing his qualms, as he continued to delve into the problems he sees with selective exposure.

"And then, if they're like my mother, they will, at night, just sort of surf the web -- for her it's right-wing web sites that say that poor Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are persecuted and that Joe Scarborough's a socialist," he continued.

Watch his comments, below:

The Blaze does not yet have a full version of his address, but based on these comments, Scarborough seems to have some major issues surrounding the way in which news is consumed. In terms of Scarborough being dubbed a "socialist," we're not sure who, exactly, he's referring to.

This isn't the first time that Scarborough has mentioned Beck. Back in February 2011, Scarborough said, “[Beck's] bad for the Republican party. He’s bad for Fox News. It’s that simple,” referring specifically to Beck's work to uncover the socialists, progressives, and unions behind the unrest in Egypt and Wisconsin.