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NBC's Lester Holt says we don’t need to hear both sides to define truth: ‘Fairness is overrated’
Fox News ^ | 3/31/21 | Brian Flood

Posted on 03/31/2021 2:49:28 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe

NBC News anchor Lester Holt received praise from liberal media figures after saying reporters don’t need to hear both sides of a story before determining the "truth." "I think it’s become clear that fairness is overrated ... the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in," Holt said on Tuesday night while accepting an award at the 45th Murrow Symposium. Lester Holt feels "the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in." Lester Holt feels "the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in."

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To: dearolddad

From The Hill....

Holt referenced “recent events” like the Jan. 6 rioting by supporters of former President Trump and conspiracy theories that have grown online about the coronavirus pandemic as examples of moments that require journalists to dismiss falsehoods and focus on provable truths.


61 posted on 03/31/2021 10:07:36 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: nicollo

That is interesting, I did not know Milton wrote that.

It just occurred to me what Lester the molester would think of the media if he somehow lived in 1930s Germany, the CSA, or the USA a century ago when his race was still basically thought of as inferior.


62 posted on 04/01/2021 12:01:25 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

These wokesters are so arrogant, so sure of themselves, so blinded by their ideology and conceit. I told one of my woke nieces (Stanford Med School) that I will never speak politics with her again until she reads Milton’s piece.

Simplified, Milton’s thesis is:
1. Only God knows the truth
2. Not even a King knows the truth (only God does)
3. Not even a King can know with certainty if something is false.
4. Therefore, inhibiting ideas (printing only licensed materials) hides the truth.

But he does so much more than that — his attacks on the clergy are hilarious.


63 posted on 04/01/2021 10:01:40 AM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: nicollo

Another truth over facts thinker.

Now we know why this a-hole was hired.


64 posted on 04/01/2021 10:05:31 AM PDT by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: Cboldt

So that’s what he meant by “fairness is overrated”?

What lies were coming from the right?


65 posted on 04/02/2021 11:00:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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