Posted on 12/21/2019 3:08:14 PM PST by powermill
An announcement from the Poynter Institute naming NBC’s Chuck Todd the “media personality of the year” while calling his Meet the Press the “gold standard” was met with derision and laughter on the internet which has long hammered the NBC host for his failures as well as his habit of not asking follow-up questions.
According to Poynter — which describes its mission as helping “journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers” — Todd’s “excellent interview skills and accessible delivery make him THE voice when it comes to news in these politically divided times.”
Not everyone agreed with that assessment by Poynter’s Tom Jones.
Or as one commenter on Twitter succinctly put it: “Christ. Chuck Todd is horrible.”
You can see a sampling of commentary on Chuck Todd’s “gold standard” journalism skills below:
Carl J. Feher @CJ_Feher Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 4 others Is this a joke? Serious question.
12:57 PM - Dec 20, 2019
Katie O Grady @KatieOGrady4
12:32 PM - Dec 20, 2019
Nicole Belle @NicoleBelle Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others How much did you pay for this "honor"?
7:51 PM - Dec 20, 2019
Art Martin @gartmartin9 Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others And with that announcement, Poynter has just destroyed its credibility completely. Congrats!
AndyMatter @AndyMatter Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others His truly has been a career unmarred by competence.
BgMac @bgmacneill Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others @chucktodd cant interview his way out of a wet paper bag folks - he has zero critical thinking skills EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Foglandia @BabiesFree Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 4 others You cannot be serious. He's a shill. His interview skills are those of a flea and he's destroying our democracy. I will never watch any show he is on. He's dangerous and you are as well for enabling this monster.
12:12 PM - Dec 20, 2019
Denise Haynes @nee_haynes · Dec 20, 2019 Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others That’s strange. @chucktodd is the exact reason I don’t watch @MeetThePress.
Bootsie DeVos' Empty Pencil Box @Licentia1963 You and me both.
1:40 PM - Dec 20, 2019
JB_Nimble @JB_Nimble Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others Gold standard. Good one.
12:18 PM - Dec 20, 2019
The Queen of Cups @Sferr Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others Christ. Chuck Todd is horrible.
15 12:31 PM - Dec 20, 2019
Monty Boa @MontyBoa99 Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others Oh, please. Chuck Todd can't even start and finish a question in a single, complete, coherent sentence. Some of his questions are just so much gibberish that he has to rephrase them 2 or 3 times.
Put a bag on his head and just listen. As an interviewer, he's appalling.
1:37 PM - Dec 20, 2019
C.Mon @ClaireeMonroe Replying to @NBCNewsPR and 3 others I guess we're just all giving up.
5:05 PM - Dec 20, 2019
aka the Goebbels Trophy.
The left wing media continues to give us good reasons to hate them
Flopping Aces ^ | 12-21-19 | DrJohn
Posted on 12/21/2019, 2:42:00 PM by Starman417
You cannot help but wonder when it happened.
When did the media completely abandon its principles? You can’t go for long without being reminded of the reasons Americans have grown to hate them. An incident at the recent Army Navy football game captured this in microcosm.
Cadets and Midshipmen were seen flashing a hand sign during a segment
As soon as it was seen by the left wing media they sprang into outrage mode without a single question.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0O3EMSs54
democrat legislators also found the need to participate in the outrage
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1208424073790967811
There was just one little problem. It wasn’t a white power symbol.
It was part of a “circle game.”
West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen accused of flashing a “white power”-linked hand sign on television last week were instead playing a popular prank among teenagers known as the “circle game,” military officials said Friday.
After an internal investigation launched against the cadets and midshipmen — who were seen flashing the “OK” hand symbol during a Dec. 14 ESPN broadcast before the annual Army-Navy football game — the U.S. Military Academy found that “the intent was not associated with ideologies or movements that are contrary to the Army values.”
“We investigated this matter thoroughly,” U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams said in a statement.
“Last Saturday we had reason to believe these actions were an innocent game and not linked to extremism, but we must take allegations such as these very seriously. We are disappointed by the immature behavior of the cadets,” Williams said.
The U.S. Naval Academy, which completed its own investigation into the hand gestures by two of its midshipmen, made a similar determination.
“The investigation found no evidence of racist intent,” Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck said in a service statement.
“The Naval Academy is fully committed to preparing young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps; in this case, we recognize there is more work to be done,” Buck said.
The hand signs were captured as ESPN anchor Reece Davis talked about the rivalry while surrounded by a group of students, some flashing the “OK” hand symbol.
This is another version of the Convington Catholic/ Nicholas Sandmann incident. You’d think they might have learned.
Sadly, no.
They’re still idiots. There is this terrible lust to be the first to report, the first to display outrage, the first to demand accountability (all wrongly) that they have stopped asking questions like “Is this accurate? Is is it true? Is there another explanation?”
We’ve seen a million things reported that look weird. Many of us get emails in which some letter or story is attributed to someone and you know that person didn’t say or write it. I always plead with my friends not to re-transmit or retweet anything that does not have a legitimate link to what is being asserted.
But the media?
Good God, they should live by some kind of journalistic standard and yet they do not. Shoddy is a not standard for which to strive.
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I had my money on Jlm Accoster.
The place is a well known joke .
It’s a typo. Supposed to be the Mediocre Personality of the Year
Don’t you need a personality first?
Brook would be more fun than a barrel full of monkeys
Storytelling describes what Chuck Todd does very well. Facts? Don't need any of them.
Meet the Press is the “Gold standard”
Yep. Fool’s Gold
Rush sums him up, UpChuck Todd
Corporate controlled deep-State media propaganda talking head of the years
Congratulations!
Liberal preening.
More leftists giving awards to other leftists. It’s one big circle-jerk.
Rush calls him F Chuck Todd
Chuck Fraud.
MR. TODD IS INDEED A JOKE.
Ole Sleepy Eyed Chuck, good for him!
Nobody else cares.
awarded by Poynter, whose Politifact never found Hillary lied!
Feb 2018: Poynter: PolitiFact moves its headquarters to The Poynter Institute
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2018/politifact-moves-its-headquarters-to-the-poynter-institute/
Feb 2018: Politifact: PolitiFact gains nonprofit status with move to the Poynter Institute
By Aaron Sharockman
PolitiFact has more than a dozen partnerships with local newsrooms across the country, where local writers fact-check politicians and pundits under the PolitiFact flag...
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/feb/12/politifact-gains-nonprofit-status-move-poynter-ins/
His face looks like a woman’s crotch.
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