Chuck Todd: Time For the Media to Fight for Truth

[EndGOPPropaganda]

This is a GREAT article. Puts a lot of blame on Ailes and Drudge and Hannity. Which they richly deserve.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/569224/

It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back
A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of media outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.

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Some of the wealthiest members of the media are not reporters from mainstream outlets. Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people. They are thriving financially by exploiting the very same free-press umbrella they seem determined to undermine.

Much of the current hand-wringing about this rise in press bashing and delegitimization has been focused on the president, who—as every reporter in America sadly knows—has declared the press the “enemy of the people.” But, like much else in the Trump era, Donald Trump didn’t start this fire; he’s only spread it to a potentially more dangerous place.

[ConnorMarc]

1. Chuck Todd Is A Sickness

He's not the right messenger for this message.

Same goes for Tweety.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. He must have read some of his feedback

from Social Media. Understand he was burned down pretty good a couple times last week.

Little sucker is just clueless some days.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Chuck reads us. Best believe.

Hes said things almost verbatim from posters here. He's real touchy about his hair and his facial....miasma of same. Vane and kinda slipshod in his reports.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. He really loves himself.

His Producers and Directors have to be some of the Dumbest in TV. They are still beating the Trump Drums when the Nation has moved on to what the real stories are.

Enough of the phony Both-sider-isms.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

8. This IS him calling for end to bothsidesism.

It’s a good article Chuck wrote. I’m the first to call him out for bothsidesism. But I support what he wrote here.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. To early to agree.

Watch Chuckie through the years. Loves to play kissy face.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

10. AGH. Maybe you're right

Link to tweet

But that was a good article :/

[EndGOPPropaganda]

7. This piece is a great piece.

This message is what America needs.

I agree Chuck hasn’t been great in past. But this IS great and I’m welcoming him to the side of right.
We all should.

[gordianot]

3. Other than the old fair and balanced line Fox does not engage in that pretense.

Todd is just as responsible as Fox News.

[CentralMass]

4. He has the right message.