MSNBC's Craig Melvin

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:20pm

I have been an admirer of this very consistent and predictably rock solid journalist for a couple of years.  But his reporting has never been as clear or cogent, or sensitive to real times shifts in circumstance and developing complications as it was this past week in his home state of South Carolina.  With so many opinion-spouting pundits turning up in Charleston to explicate rather than report, it was especially welcome -- and rare -- to find a native so objective and yet invested and committed to getting every aspect of this awful story right. Today, another MSNBC host, Melissa Harris Perry -- full disclosure, not my personal favorite -- showed up and tried to Harris-Perry-splain everything about the President's stunning oration, to annotate and even semi-scold those who missed what she deemed the bigger points ("Craig, please don't forget it was a eulogy. I don't want our audience to miss that critical distinction.").  Melvin stayed cool, centered and yet able to reflect and reveal his emotion.  And politely ask Professor Harris-Perry to parse the history vis a vis the iconic Birmingham deaths (which she failed to even address in her rush to admonish all of us for taking away the wrong message). The difference between his approach to this historical speech and others (see Lemon, Don, whining and turning it into his event) was clear.  I hope his network took note.  Journalism matters. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:37pm

Agreed. 

Isn't Melvin getting his own show soon?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/26/15 at 8:50pm

People making collective events all about themselves? I noticed Little Orphan Andy Sullivan stepped out of the tomb to congratulate himself for today's Supreme Cout decision. I guess it's going around.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/27/15 at 8:12am

And on that very point: curious missing in the media glare yesterday: Olson and Boies.