Rachel Maddow Breaks Down on Live Television While Reporting Child Separation, Exposing the Emotional Toll of Journalism and Forcing America to Confront the Human Cost of a Political Crisis
On June 19, 2018, a moment of raw humanity broke through the polished routines of cable news. Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s famously composed primetime anchor, struggled to finish her broadcast after receiving a late-breaking Associated Press report. The bulletin revealed that the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy had resulted in infants and toddlers being separated … Read more