Journalists vs. Journalism: Milbank Opposes 1/6 Security-Camera Footage in 'Public Domain'

Newsbusters ^ | February 28, 2023 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Remember the slogan the Washington Post adopted in February 2017 soon after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President? "Democracy Dies In Darkness." Well, apparently that has been tossed down the memory hole by that newspaper's columnist, Dana Milbank, whose attitude now seems to be "Democracy Dies In Daylight."

Militant Milbank made clear he adheres to the new journalistic philosophy on MSNBC's PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton on Sunday when he went a step beyond merely complaining, as much of the liberal media is currently doing, that Tucker Carlson is the first to be allowed to look at the 40,000 hours of security camera footage at the Capitol from January 6, 2021. Milbank makes clear that he doesn't want the public to see that important footage at all. The lame excuse he gives is that it would somehow compromise security.

[PJ-Comix]

A lot of liberals in the media are now PRETENDING that they wanted to see that video footage all along but are just objecting that Tucker Carlson will see it first. No, actually they are really like Dana Milbank who admitted that he doesn't want the public to see that J6 video... EVER!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Can’t have any actual evidence when anonymous sources can give you exactly what you want.

[bankwalker]

fox and tucker agree ...

[TakebackGOP]

Of course he does. He has spent two years telling us Trump is to blame for an insurrection.

[Four of Six]

One can only imagine what it must be like to be as morally and ethically bankrupt as Dana Millbank ( or Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and that bug-eyed pencil geek from California).

Then again, when everybody around you is equally bankrupt, it becomes normal and acceptable.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"They are too dumb to understand what they are seeing! We have to be able to interpret it for them, don't you understand that?" :)

[Boogieman]

They want to be the gatekeepers who decide what little bits and pieces of footage to trickle out to the public and what to hide.

[NWFree]

Fake news can't control the narrative if they don't own the info

That's why they're squawking

[silent majority rising]

Carlson hasn’t released a damn thing. Perhaps that is why McCarthy gave it to him exclusively. So that he can control what is shown.

[SteveH]

40000 hours is a lot to review before releasing.

[FrankRizzo890]

They plan to use it as a campaign tool for YEARS to come. If the truth were to somehow be exposed, it could blow up that plan, and they might have to run on accomplishments (of which they have NONE), or just cheat.