Mika Brzezinski
Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski (born May 2, 1967 in New York City ) is an American television presenter and journalist . Brzezinski hosts the daily television program " Morning Joe " on MSNBC with former Republican politician Joe Scarborough .
Life
Mika Brzezinski was born in 1967 as the daughter of the Polish-born American politician Zbigniew Brzeziński , who served as national security advisor in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981, and the sculptor Emilie Anna Benes . Brzezinski spent her childhood on the grounds of Columbia University , where her father was a lecturer at the time. In 1976 the family moved to McLean , Virginia near Washington, DC They spent their high school years at the Madeira School . In 1989 Brzezinski graduated from Williams College , Williamstown , Massachusetts with a degree in English .
In 1993 she married news reporter James Hoffer, with whom she has two children. The marriage ended in divorce in 2016. In May 2017, she got engaged to colleague Joe Scarborough . They were married in Washington on November 24, 2018. Mika Brzezinski will take her husband's name.
Career as a journalist
In 1990 Brzezinski started a journalistic career as an employee in the editorial office of the ABC broadcast World News This Morning . In 1992 she moved to WTIC-TV in Hartford , Connecticut . In 1995 she took over the moderation of the station's weekday news program. In 1997 Brzezinski left WTIC to work for the news department at CBS. There she was employed as a correspondent and anchor woman for the nightly information program Up to the Minute .
In 2000, Brzezinski was hired by the cable news broadcaster MSNBC to host the afternoon show Home Page , which she led with Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield . In September 2001, she returned to CBS as a correspondent. Immediately after taking up this job, she witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, reporting live on the collapse of the so-called South Tower. In January 2007, Brzezinski returned to MSNBC, where she has since co- hosted the political program Morning Joe , a breakfast news program with Joe Scarborough . While Scarborough is a member of the Republican Party , Brzezinski is a member of the Democrats . In addition, she occasionally takes on duties as a guest presenter on other programs on MSNBC, such as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue .
Mika Brzezinski attracted attention when Republican presidential candidate John McCain called her in October 2008 as a supporter of his opponent Barack Obama , thereby calling her journalistic integrity into question. Since December 8, 2008, Brzezinski and Scarborough have also hosted a two-hour program on the New York City-based radio station WABC.
In January 2011, she said on the news broadcast that it was not newsworthy to mention Sarah Palin's reaction to President Obama's speech on the Tucson shooting .
The "Hilton Incident"
Brzezinski caused a stir in 2007 when, in an issue of Morning Joe, she persistently refused to read a report about the release from prison of the hotel heiress Paris Hilton . She justified this step with the fact that she could not discover any informational value for the audience in this message and that she was also tired of the constant media presence of Hilton anyway. Following the first explanation of this stance in conversation with her co-moderators, Brzezinski tore up the paper with the news about Hilton; a little later it referred for a reading copy with the same message she hunted through the shredder . While the co-moderators and producers of Morning Joe received the scene with confusion or irritation, Brzezinski found widespread recognition by the audience, which was reflected in a large number of positive e-mails and interest in video clips from the scene.
Insult by Donald Trump
Mika Brzezinski sharply criticized US President Donald Trump in one of her programs. In June 2017 she accused him, among other things, of tweeting about the appearance of people and of lying every day. Trump would undermine the authority of his staff; abuse them as pawn sacrifices .
Then Trump insulted the MSNBC journalist in several tweets, denigrating her as the "crazy Mika with the low IQ" and her co-moderators and partner Joe Scarborough as "Psycho Joe".
A number of Republicans were critical of Trump's tweets. Even a commentator on the conservative broadcaster Fox News said: "Anyone who is not paid by him, it is very clear that he has crossed a line." Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders , however, said Trump retaliated fire with fire.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brzezinski, Mika . In: Current Biography Yearbook 2010 . HW Wilson, Ipswich, MA 2010, ISBN 978-0-8242-1113-4 , pp. 84-88.
- ↑ (New York Times October 24, 1993)
- ^ 'Morning Joe' co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski are engaged , The Hill, April 5, 2017
- ↑ Emily Jane Fox: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Tie the Knot in a Secret Ceremony . In: The Hive . ( vanityfair.com [accessed November 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Joe Scarborough Show (video) via Colbert Report. January 18, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b tagesschau.de: Trump's wild Twitter attack against TV presenters. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brzezinski, Mika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brzezinski, Mika Emilie Leonia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |