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Hundreds of rockets have been launched into Israel by Hamas in the past few days. With that in mind, how did MSNBC's "Morning Joe" deal with the very real and dangerous situation unfolding in the Middle East?
First, let us consider what kind of program we are talking about. According to the cable show's Facebook page, "Morning Joe features interviews with top newsmakers and politicians, in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest stories."
Based on that self-definition, I set out to see what "Morning Joe" considered to be the "day's biggest stories" and how they would be analyzed by the show.
During the program's first half-hour on Wednesday morning, here are the stories, in order, that were covered by the program:
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The panel also briefly discussed:
The tense and deadly situation in Israel received no coverage in the first half hour of "Morning Joe."
However, in the second half hour, the Israel story was mentioned, but only in a tease.
Here are the topics Joe, Mika and company covered between 6:30 and 7:00am.
From 7am to 7:30 the show rehashed the topic of the crisis at the border and why President Obama should or should not visit the region during his trip to Texas.
Eventually, just after 7:30 a.m. ET, the Morning Joe panel discussed the situation in the Israel and the West Bank.
The segment lasted nearly twelve minutes and featured an interview with Israel's Ido Aharoni, the country's counsel general in New York:
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