NEW YORK — Anyone who enjoys the infrequent historical asides on Rachel Maddow’s weekly MSNBC show will find something special there.
She launched the first episode of “Rachel Maddow Presents: Deja News” on Monday with her longtime producer, Isaac-Davy Aronson. The six-episode podcast examines historical occurrences that can instruct us on present affairs.
The first program, about a little-remembered riot outside the Paris parliament building on February 6, 1934, is similar to the Capitol uprising in Washington on January 6, 2021.
“Does it help us if January 6 was history repeating itself in some way?” Asked in the episode by Maddow. Does that aid our comprehension of the significance of January 6 and what we should do moving forward? Would it make us feel better knowing this wasn’t the first time, or would it make us feel even more uneasy?
Maddow’s previous podcasts had historical themes: “Ultra” looked at American extremists, and “Bag Man” focused on former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
She admitted to The Associated Press, “I have this soft spot for history as an explanatory thing.” “I’m an enthusiast. I want to know about the formation of the star that produced the solar system, that planet, and that rock if you tell me something geologically significant is happening.
The term “Deja News” is the one that “The Rachel Maddow Show” refers to informally for some of its past segments. The stories are ideal for a podcast, even though they can make viewers lose patience during TV shows (Get to the point, Rachel!).
Anyone who enjoys the infrequent historical asides on Rachel Maddow’s weekly MSNBC show will find something special there.
The extra time allows the podcast to consider the historical parallels in greater detail and wrestle with potential future developments, according to Aronson. It’s wonderful to have that time and room to breathe.
The new leader of France’s government resigned and was replaced by a more conservative figure a day after the violence in Paris, which was exactly what the protesters demanded. However, the incident helped to unify lefties, and two years later, a much more liberal administration was elected.
But over 90 years later, like-minded French residents continue to pay tribute to the far-right riot’s leaders with parades and visits to their graves.
According to Maddow, the news is frequently reported in a vacuum when a basic understanding of history can help put events in a better context.
“Recognising that some of these problems are recurrent, rather than truly novel, doesn’t make the problems any smaller,” she asserted. “It just gives me more faith in my ability to keep participating, to keep going, to not shut down, to not be overly afraid or intimidated by the scale of a problem, and to think about it with the assistance of people like us in previous generations who had to deal with the problem,” the author says.
Anyone who enjoys the infrequent historical asides on Rachel Maddow’s weekly MSNBC show will find something special there.
It also emphasizes how crucial it is to choose the right people to write and teach history,
Before it was released, “Deja News,” whose logo features an inquisitive groundhog, was near the top of Apple’s podcast list due to anticipation. Every Monday, new episodes will be released, the second of which will highlight how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ conflicts with woke politics and the LGBTQ community mirror one from over 60 years ago.
Maddow has been presenting her television program on Monday nights for a year.
Regarding the lighter burden, she remarked, “It’s great. It has unquestionably saved my life.
Anyone who enjoys the infrequent historical asides on Rachel Maddow’s weekly MSNBC show will find something special there.
She was exhausted after watching TV five evenings a week. She first fought the once-weekly schedule to avoid providing a magazine-style analysis of the previous week’s news. Instead, they devised the plan to present it as if it were just another everyday show covering the news of the day.
She is fully occupied with other tasks. In addition to ‘Deja News’, she is finalizing a book that will be published this autumn, translating ‘Bag Man’ and ‘Ultra’ into motion pictures, and producing a scripted TV series about a group of women in post-World War II Washington that is being delayed by the writer’s strike.
She remarked, “I need to learn time management.” I’m working longer hours than I used to. My girlfriend anticipated I would have more free time and time to spend with her.
When significant events occur, like the announcement of the indictment of former President Donald Trump last Thursday, she appears on MSNBC. But she claimed that having the opportunity to explore new things had given her energy.
“I thought I had the best job in the world, but I didn’t,” she admitted. “Now, I do.”
SOURCE – (AP)
