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."
Maybe because Trump will be on the road in FL on Saturday?
The whole premise of ‘Captain Planet’ was idiotic from the start:
Evil people wanting to spread pollution, poison and filth intentionally all over the place, for no discernible reason other than they just like to do that.
That’s why my then 10 year old daughter said it was stupid. Nobody does that kind of stupid stuff................
Ernie Pyle....................not Gomer...............
Don’t forget, “BOMBSHELL!”, “MUST SEE”, “INCREDIBLE MOMENT”, “AMAZING”, etc.
I’ll bet not one in five college students know who Gomer Pyle was either.
More beating is necessary.
The one man in the msm that knows the truth
You can’t spell Chuckle without Chuck.
They did a great job of it themselves.
Trump gave them some solid advice on how to get it back - but they refuse.
Probably so. They can name all the Kardashians and their children, though.................
Ouch !
The beatings will continue until morality improves........................
Im sorry, delegitimizing the press is unAmerican.
Hmmmm....surprised to hear this from Mr. Dickerson, who is usually sickeningly smug.
Soon to be EX-CBS Anchor
Yep. When The Onion, aka "America's Finest News Source," appears to have more credibility than the real MSM, the MSM has a MAJOR problem.
Well guess what, Chuck You Toad? Delegitimizing President Trump is what's unAmerican.
And that, my man, is not a laughing matter.
"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814.
"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811.
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806.
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819.
"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.
Just a little stroll down history lane! enemdeia, indeed!
"Our newspapers, for the most part, present only the caricatures of disaffected minds. Indeed, the abuses of the freedom of the press here have been carried to a length never before known or borne by any civilized nation." --Thomas Jefferson to M. Pictet, 1803. ME 10:357
This has been an issue since before our inception. While the need of a 'Free Press' is obvious and Thomas Jefferson spoke highly of this need to a Free Nation, as much as he and many others spoke after our Nation formed, it's obvious it all left a bad taste in their mouths. A taste that likely required many Ales to wash away.
She was referring to GW Bush of course.
Obama? Wow, so much bootlicking.
Did he EVER get a tongue-lashing by a reporter during the eight years?
Or hell, a genuinely tough question, with follow ups?
I personally don't recall that ever happening.
EIGHT YEARS of sucking up to Obama.
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