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Opinion: Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we're winning.
NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | April 27, 2020 | By Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC

Posted on 04/27/2020 5:22:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

... President Donald Trump came into office railing against many of the foundations of our democratic institutions, including a free press. Forty months into his administration, coverage of the coronavirus outbreak is the latest sign that - contrary to conventional wisdom - he hasn't laid a glove on serious journalism. His attacks, most recently against excellent reporters like Jonathan Karl (ABC), Yamiche Alcindor (PBS), Peter Alexander (NBC) and Paula Reid (CBS), put the bully in bully pulpit, but they haven't shaken the soul of the First Amendment.

Trump's daily briefings, which sometimes include pertinent and significant information, have also frequently become a sideshow, filled with false and misleading statements, compulsive boasting and self-promotional videos. That's why with each live briefing, many news outlets, including ours, are aggressively fact-checking in real time, assessing the value to viewers minute to minute and cutting away when warranted.

Despite these challenges, what has become powerfully clear during this pandemic is that the heart of journalism has never been stronger. As ever, journalists are asking tough questions and going where the facts lead. Not looking to win any popularity contests - just doing what Woodward and Bernstein inspired my generation and the generations that followed to always do: seek the best obtainable version of the truth.

At this dark hour, people are scared. They're being bombarded daily by noise and information, not all of it correct - some of it intentionally divisive and polarizing. They're hungry for accurate information and the straight, unvarnished truth. Now, and in all the days to come, journalists will be there.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: FlipWilson
As with so much of what the Democrat/Left does, they figure if they wish really, really hard, if they say it enough times and if they say it loudly enough and, did I mention, they wish really, really hard what they think will become reality (although it's clear that prior to the Internet the Democrat/Left was occasionally successful with this practice ... no more though.

Think about how many times and with how very many things and ideas the Democrat/Left has done this. Denying reality, wishing reality to be what they most fervently want it to be, then accepting their "new", their "alternate version of reality must be in their DNA ... they can't help themselves, just like that with every thing they do, the Democrat/Left always -- always overreaches ... as with the current flu debacle. Cheers!

41 posted on 04/27/2020 6:03:57 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You journalists should stop trying to play Hollywood trial lawyer and press for information and news instead. As far as being unbiased as you like to claim....any notion of that has been completely blown over the last ten years.


42 posted on 04/27/2020 6:10:43 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: glennaro

Last week, I was censured by FB for facts I, as a physician, know to be true.


43 posted on 04/27/2020 6:19:08 AM PDT by gasport (A lamppost is too dignified for the ChiCom thugs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a free press

LOL ... they're not "free," they're bought and paid for.

44 posted on 04/27/2020 6:24:24 AM PDT by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: gasport
What happened to you would normally be disconcerting, perhaps even shocking ... but it is FB we're discussing here ...
45 posted on 04/27/2020 6:25:07 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are winning. Trump is on track to lose the election resoundingly, ushering in an era of massive liberalism.


46 posted on 04/27/2020 6:28:52 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are not winning, they are revealing their hate, nastiness and lies. But apparently that’s who they are and what they do so Trump an the administration should simply accept it and react accordingly.

Like RUSH preached to the House freshmen when Newt took over, NEVER think the media will be your friends, they despise you, accept it.


47 posted on 04/27/2020 6:33:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: FreedBird

The journalists are all trying out for Pravda.


48 posted on 04/27/2020 6:35:25 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

They think in the last week that they are winning with the Lysol discussion and memes

Unfortunately, they might be setting things up to try to win for Biden early.

Why else would the CEO of NBCNews openly write this letter.


49 posted on 04/27/2020 6:47:23 AM PDT by bob_esb
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“he hasn’t laid a glove on serious journalism.”

What would you clowns know about serious journalism?


50 posted on 04/27/2020 6:50:50 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, the media is under attack. Journalism is not. There are few if any journalists remaining in the mainstream media.


51 posted on 04/27/2020 6:58:00 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Journalists” and your bosses can ESAD.


52 posted on 04/27/2020 7:07:51 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the MSM is winning, why didn’t Mrs. Bill Clinton win 90-10?


53 posted on 04/27/2020 7:23:40 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: libertylover

Opinion: Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we’re winning.

Then why is it that across the board you are referred to as the eneMedia and it fits.


54 posted on 04/27/2020 7:26:41 AM PDT by JayAr36 (The worthless dispicable party must be destroyed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

L.O.L.

Winning = ratings


55 posted on 04/27/2020 7:31:38 AM PDT by silverleaf (President Trump: Do not trust China. China is asshoe!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


56 posted on 04/27/2020 8:09:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
(1) Stop all White House briefings.

(2) Cut off FoxNews -- including Hannity, etc.

(3) Start dishing only to OAN (eg. interviews, breaking stories, etc.)
57 posted on 04/27/2020 8:49:21 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Journalism IS under attack.

The attack is by partisan leftists masquerading as “reporters” who are only interested in shaping the narrative into their views, and primarily trying to make themselves look like the embattled “david” against the evil Trump Goliath.

But what they’ve managed to do is poison the media to an entire generation of consumers. I used to be able to “deal with” slanted reporting. But given what they’ve done to President Trump, his administration, his nominees, and the way they colluded with the former administration to ensure that there was NO peaceful transition of power, they’ve lost me to the point that I will never trust any of them, for even the most trivial news.

These are corporate and communist government shills, and nothing more. They’ve worked to install a corrupt harridan as POTUS, and after she lost, they’ve worked to overthrow a legally elected president, some going so far to say that he committed treason because of collusion that they reported, but that they knew were all lies. The so-called mainstream media colluded with the former administration’s intelligence service to spread lies and undercut any policies and the prestige of the President and administration on the International front.

But most recently, we’ve seen them running Chinese Communist Party propaganda as “news.”

The “Fake news” really is the enemy of “The People.”

Mark


58 posted on 04/27/2020 3:39:24 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

DNC media says what?


59 posted on 04/27/2020 3:40:51 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: tet68

I knew that the train was going to run off the tracks in the late 1980s when I heard an interview with a “journalism student” at University of Missouri (supposedly one of the top “journalism schools in the country,) that the reason she wanted to become a journalist was “to make the world a better place.”

I’ll never forget that. I was driving home from school in New York, nearly home, north of Kansas City, having stopped off at a DQ at an exit on I-29, and was waiting in the drive-through for a cherry Mr. Misty, and I heard that on Chuck Harder’s “For the People” syndicated radio show.

I was aghast. And I still remember it clearly, a bit more than 30 years later!

Mark


60 posted on 04/27/2020 3:47:01 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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