Posted on 08/27/2018 7:01:33 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
NBC host Chuck Todd said Sunday that the "Roger Ailes-created echo chamber" created the environment that has led to the public believing the media is biased.
"The conservative echo chamber created that environment," Todd said on "Meet The Press" while responding to an argument about the media's favorability from CBN News' David Broidy.
"It has been a tactic and a tool of the Roger Ailes-created echo chamber."
Ailes, who died last year, was the former CEO of Fox News and widely seen as a key figure in shaping the news network.
Todd made the assertion after Broidy invoked a 2018 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey that found 62 percent of Americans think the news they read, see or hear is biased.
Broidy argued that the poll should be considered when looking at the approval ratings of President Trump.
"I’d say on the Republican side they got exactly what they wanted, a guy that was going to shake things up. Look, I think one of the best things going in Donald Trump’s favor — we know this — is the mainstream media," Broidy said.
But Toddy aggressively pushed back against the assertion, saying Ailes had helped initiate the perception of media bias by the public.
He later added that the push from Trump to discredit the media was a strategy formed in his 2016 presidential campaign.
"I’m just saying it was a creation — it was a campaign tactic," Todd said. "It’s not based in much fact."
The back-and-forth comes as Trump repeatedly rails against the press for its reporting on his administration. Trump has frequently labeled the media "the enemy of the people" and slammed its reporting as "fake news."
A recent poll from Quinnipiac found that most Republicans agree with Trump's argument that the media is the "enemy of the people." Only 5 percent of Democrats agreed with that line from Trump.
Todd said. “It’s not based in much fact.”....
ROFLMAO
Chuckie is no lady!
Chuck Todd is a malignant pos. A vile creature directly responsible for the lack of trust in media today.
Like all liberals its always someone else’s fault never the obvious.
The persistent, provable LIES from the MSM are what drives the mistrust.
We know that you know that, but lack the courage to acknowledge the TRUTH.
The Ministry of Propaganda is responsible for people not believing them.
They don’t know how to be objective journalists anymore.
Chuck,
The media are not trusted because they have LIED so much that no one is willing to swallow their half truths anymore.
It goes back far further than Obama, but the 8 years Obama was in office, the lies became so flagrant even the most passive observer could see right through them.
As you tried to pass off 8 years of abysmal economics as great.... as you passed of a horrific Iran deal as great... as you passed off every liberal insanity as great regardless of the actual evidence in front of folks faces... as great... You passed off Hillary’s illegalities as nothing... but try to make anything Trump does as the end of the world...
Trust me, my t life long democrat friends didn’t vote Trump over Hillary because they were in a conservative echo chamber...
You aren’t believed, because you LIE.. pure and simple... out of context, half truths, spin etc...
Gee Chuck, don’t you think that possibly there’s been a liberal echo chamber in the media all of these years?
Chuck Todd’s statement reminds me of an alcoholic’s excuse that the problems they’re experiencing are ALWAYS someone else’s fault and not of their own doing.
if there ever was a true echo chamber, it exists within the MSM.
WOW, even being the ignoramus he is he must have seen the data showing how negative the coverage is of Trump and the miniscule amount of positive coverage. His denial of facts is sufficient to yank him off TV as a "pundit".
Yes indeed.
What anyone who believes him doesn’t realize, is that he is completely insulting their intelligence.
Basically saying he and MSM are “trustworthy”, and anyone who doesn’t agree with that is stupid.
Call me stupid, then....
All the lies and misinformation told by the media on an hourly basis is the fault of FOX News??
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We really need to start Drug Testing everyone that appears on the Public Airwaves.
Maybe the reason people don’t trust the media is that so much of what the say turns out not to be true. Of course they also claim the rantings of leftist lunatics is commentary.
Pure projection. Echo chamber, indeed...describes his people to a T.
Do these people really believe we are stupid as they are?
The same corrupt MSM who loved the Maverick McCain, but yet the very same corrupt MSN compared McCain to Hitler in 2008 when he ran against St. Obama. The corrupt MSM now irrationally exalt McCain in death as if they have always revered him and never said anything against him.
The corrupt MSM is a biased farce. And they are so stupid they really think we don’t see these things and should just blindly trust them.
That’s insane.
Hey Chuckie, you all did it to yourselves.
Chuck Todd is a former long time staffer to ultra-liberal Sen. Tom Harkin. So of course this qualifies Todd as just another “unbiased” journalist, like George Stephanopoulos, Maria Harf, and all the others unbiased “journalists”.
Just what drugs are these people taking?
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