JILLIAN: THE WASHINGTON POST
COLUMNIST CLAIMING ITS INFLUENCE
LED TO A MEDIA THAT WAS TOO TOUGH ON DEMOCRATS AND TOO
TOUGH ON DEMOCRATS AND TOO
LENIENT TO REPUBLICANS.
TODD: POLITICO LARGELY EMBRACED
PREVAILING ORTHODOXIES OF
POLITICAL JOURNALISM
PARTICULARLY IN ITS EARLY DAYS
FOCUSED ON NOT OFFENDING
REPUBLICAN LEADERS, SOMETIMES
VISIBLE SPORTS COVERAGE AND ITS
LEADING REPORTERS WERE NEARLY
ALL WHITE.
JOINING US, JOE CONCHA. WHAT BIZARRO WORLD IS THIS OFFER
WHAT BIZARRO WORLD IS THIS OFFER
LIVING IN?
>> POLITICO REPORTED THINGS AS
IF THEY WERE REPORTING SPORTS
SCORES.
I USED TO BE A SPORTS COLUMNIST
BEFORE GETTING TO THE MEDIA
COVERAGE THING AND THAT IS WHAT
YOU DO DURING A GAME, LOOK AT
BOTH TEAMS THE WAY THEY ARE
PERFORMING AND THE SCORES ON
EACH SIDE AND THE FOCUS ON
HILLARY CLINTON’S EMAILS STEMS
FROM THE MEDIA’S REFLEXIVE SIDE
-- AND DONALD FROM STAFF IS
REQUESTED INSIDE OF FOCUSED
APPROACH TO POLITICS GONE TOO
FAR.
BOTH SIDES WITH HILLARY CLINTON
AND HER EMAILS, SHE ENGAGED IN
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, MOST
AMERICANS WOULD BE ON PAROLE OR
IN JAIL IF THEY HANDLED
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION THE WAY
MRS. CLINTON DID BUT ACCORDING
TO THIS JOURNALIST SAYING IF YOU
ARE NOT AN ACTIVIST JOURNALIST
SUPPORTING DEMOCRATS AND FAR
LEFT POLICIES YOU ARE TREATED TO
THE PROFESSION AND SHOULDN’T BE
INVOLVED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR
FORM AND THAT IS BIZARRE.
>> TELL US ABOUT THE OLD DAYS IN
JOURNALISM WHERE YOU WERE TRYING
TO OFFEND SOMEONE OR NOT OFFEND
SOMEONE OR WORRY ABOUT THEIR
FEELINGS, YOU WERE WRITING THE
FACTS OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AND
THOSE READING OR WATCHING CAN
INFER WHAT THEY WANT AND
FORMULATE THEIR OWN OPINIONS, THAT IS GONE AND OUT THE DOOR
THAT IS GONE AND OUT THE DOOR
THESE DAYS.
>> REPORT THE FACTS, YOU CAN
SHARE YOUR FEELINGS AND
PERSPECTIVE BUT THIS PARTICULAR
COLUMNIST WAS ARGUING THE
REPORTING SHOULD INCLUDE THAT
REPORTER’S FEELINGS AND
PERSPECTIVES AND THOSE FEELINGS
AND PERSPECTIVES BETTER SUPPORT
THE BLUE TEAM INSTEAD OF THE
RENTING BECAUSE THE RED TEAM IS
EVIL IN THE BLUE TEAM IS MORALLY
RIGHT AND THAT IS A WHOLE BALL
OF WRONG.
TODD: THE AUTHOR SAYS THIS HONOR
IS DOING A BETTER JOB IT WAS TEN
YEARS AGO.
HERE ARE SOME HEADLINES, HE IS
HAPPY POLITICO HAS CHANGED, THE
TRUMP NEWS SHOW IS OVER AND WE
ARE HEALTHIER FOR IT, THE
REPUBLICAN TALK ABOUT FREEDOM
WHILE PEOPLE DIE AND FROM THE
ATLANTIC THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
RADICALIZING AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
THE MORE IN THE TANK FOR THE DEMOCRATS IS WHAT PASSES FOR
DEMOCRATS IS WHAT PASSES FOR
DOING A BETTER JOB.
>> IF YOU LOOK AT POLLS AND THE
WAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LOOK AT
THE MEDIA SOMETHING LIKE 93% OF
REPUBLICANS SAY THEY DON’T TRUST
THE MEDIA, OVERWHELMING NUMBER
OF INDEPENDENTS WHO DECIDE
ELECTIONS IN ARIZONA, GEORGIA, MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS
MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS
SEEM TO LIKE THE WAY THE MEDIA
IS COVERING THE POLITICAL SCENE
THESE DAYS AND THAT TELLS YOU
THEY LIKE WHAT THEY ARE HEARING
WHILE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE AND
THE RIGHT SAY THEY MAY BE BIASED
OR ACTIVIST ROLE, WE ARE NOT
BUYING IT AT THAT IS FAITH IN
THE MEDIA IS AS LOW AS IT IS.
TODD: CONTRARY IN QUESTION.
DOES THIS OFFER ACTUALLY BELIEVE
THIS OR IS THIS INDIVIDUAL
TRYING TO GET CLICKS?
>> PROBABLY ALL OF THE ABOVE.
IN THAT CASE.
HE WRITES SOMETHING PROVOCATIVE,
IT WILL GET ATTENTION FOR THE
WRONG REASONS BUT ALSO HE
BELIEVES JOURNALISTS ROLE SHOULD
NOT BE TO HOLD THE POWERFUL
ACCOUNTABLE BUT THE WHOLE
1-PARTY ACCOUNTABLE AND DO SO IN
A HOSTILE WAY.
IT IS PROBABLY BOTH.
JILLIAN: GOOD TO SEE YOU AS
ALWAYS.
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