Posted on 02/17/2017 7:34:04 AM PST by markomalley
John Dickerson, anchor of CBS's "Face the Nation," disagrees with reporters who say President Trump is eroding the national media's credibility.
In a radio interview Friday, conservative host Hugh Hewitt referred to the previous day's press conference at the White House, in which Trump laid into the news media and told reporters in the room that the public cannot trust them.
"But that one comment, they don't trust you anymore, is a summation of where we are in America, because I really do think Manhattan-Beltway elites have lost the country," Hewitt said. "They've lost it."
Dickerson agreed.
"Yes, it's true, and it's not because of anything obviously Donald Trump did. The press did all that good work ruining its reputation on its own, and we can have a long conversation about what created that," Dickerson said.
"Part of it, though, is what you mentioned about the local weather report, which is to say a lot of hysterical coverage about every little last thing that doesn't warrant it," he added.
After Thursday's press conference, which lasted more than an hour, many in the media said Trump's broadsides against the press were hurting the country.
"This not a laughing matter," NBC "Meet the Press" anchor Chuck Todd said on Twitter after the conference. "I'm sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican."
Truth!
Started doing so YEARS ago.
Exploding trucks on NBC?
Dan Rather’s typewriter from the future?
Trump just tweeted out a link to this—looks like he’s moving the traditional weekly Saturday morning address to Friday?
https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/1226385200782544/
To get more coverage? Would be interesting if he moved it to or added in a Monday morning address, whereby he could outline his agenda for the week ahead (however much of it he wants to give a heads up on, that is).
Dickerson...you work for See-BS. What do you expect? You take their paycheck and are just as seditious and traitorous as your employer.
The media in the New York/Washington axis, have brought their problems on themselves.
By pushing liberalism for so many years, they have destroyed their own credibility. But they can’t see the forest for the trees.
Because one of the tenets of liberalism, especially in the New York/Washington media axis, is a feeling that they are smarter than everyone else, that they are not just reporters, but are crusading for a better world.
Whether the issue is homosexual marriage, police shootings, global warming, or others, they take positions and slant their “news” coverage, to present a point of view that the liberal view is “correct”.
Hold on....Nellie!
What was the closing quote by Dickerson on Scott Pelley’s broadcast on Thursday evening?
My recollection is that Dickerson was panning and dismissive of President Trump’s handling of the press conference.
Please correct my aging recollections....
Wise move. Saturday morning is for cartoons.
They STILL DON'T GET IT!
They STILL DON'T GET IT!
They STILL DON'T GET IT!
They STILL DON'T GET IT!
They STILL DON'T GET IT!
They STILL DON'T GET IT!....................
“I’m sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican.”
What self-indulgent rubbish.
The press still didn’t get it. After the presser, they went on a rage and spewed more lies and hatred.
‘Press ruined its reputation ‘on its own’
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Amazing that one of them would admit it.
They don’t have cartoons on Saturday anymore..............
Sounds to me like pot...kettle...black. You guys blew it when you stopped reporting the news and instead substituted editorial comment in place if the news. The reporting is so slanted that most Americans now just ignore you. Compare viewership of the evening news shows to what it was 10 years ago (adjusted for population growth). Then ask yourself: Why is the video and print media in the tank? It's because you ceased being a source of news, but used it as a vehicle to promote an agenda.
You have no one to blame but yourself for where you find yourself. The "delegitimizing the press" is simply a truism that you, all by yourself, have earned.
Being freed from the “Manhattan-Beltway elites” is among the best things that could happen to this country ... short of them disappearing down a sinkhole.
For far, far too long the rabidly biased liberal media of today rest on the tenets contained in the Constitution mistaking that “freedom of the press” magically applies to these inbred liberal rats’ nests of so-called journalists of today.
To me, that long ago mention of “the press” was an expression of the right for a free peoples to voice their opinions. Through meetings, voice and communications, and yes, even a newspaper. Yet the founders at the time never once would have left it so broad were they to learn the evils to which media, academics and liberals are willing to go to control us all. To me, the 1st Amendment only goes insofar as the media’s ‘right’ to spout their bullshit is only as strong as any other individual - nothing more.
Media can take their historic assumed right and stick it up their butt. They are no more authoritative than your garbage man, and he at least takes your trash away. A journalist leaves his turd on your doorstep.
GMTA.
I cited those very events to a younger person last night who asked why I pay no attention to media.
He had no idea about them.
The Wall Street Journal has been a propaganda organ for the Cheap Labor Express for decades.
Go back farther. Chet Huntley and David Brinkley giving us that “look” when they reported on something they were opposed to.
Then that lying son-of-a-b*tch Walter Cronkite when he made his political statement on the Vietnam War just after we destroyed the Viet Cong and NVA in several attacks. NVA General Giap credited Cronkite with turning the tide of war, from inside the USA with this one broadcast.
I have never trusted the news media since.
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