My favorite part of the 60 Minutes interview is when Trump doesn't want to answer a question about masks so he tells Lesley Stahl "next question, go ahead" and she says "OK" and asks another question. Some real Meet the Press energy
Oh cool Stahl asking Trump about Hunter Biden's laptop. Let's see if he has anything substantive to say about this issue. He's the President, he might have good information
The go-off-king reaction to Swan's interview was a little obnoxious because he simply countered Trump's lies with facts, the baseline of what any journalist should do in an interview with a liar. But it's a gold standard compared with asking Trump "do you think..." on everything
Not a single factual question in the entire interview. Getting half an hour with the most unfit and dumbest person to ever be president and asking him how he feels about other people and why he's making Hunter Biden's laptop an issue is a heavy misuse of time for a journalist
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Today is the six-year anniversary of the Access Hollywood “pussy" tape. As I do every year, I will be live-tweeting the events of that day as they occurred.
It was a beautiful, crisp autumn day. Not a cloud in the sky. It was one month until voting day for the 2016 election. It was a normal Friday. I was traveling with the President of the United States.
The President was scheduled to speak at a factory. We were in the Beast — the term for the SUV that carries the POTUS in the traveling motorcade. We were listening to All Things Considered on the radio. "Nothing unusual will happen today, right?" POTUS asked me. "Yes" I replied
CBS News president Neeraj Khemlani said in a meeting that he hired Republicans like Mick Mulvaney to lie on air so CBS gets “access” to the GOP because they’re going to win the midterms
Now that CBS itself has polls showing the GOP lead shrinking why is Mulvaney still employed
The meeting was recorded and shows the top journalists at CBS News saying how much they want to give their platform to Republicans like Kevin McCarthy
Colbert criticized his own network for “not just reporting the news anymore, but predicting it” and using that as an excuse to get in bed with Republicans under the guise of political inevitability seven months before the actual midterms
This article validates every “lock her up” Republican plainly acting in bad faith today by repeating a bullshit talking point and even states in Serious Newsvoice that the raid “drew the ire of conservatives who decried the search as an abuse of power” in service of that bullshit
When the archaic Both Sides model of journalism is applied to a political system in which one party is fascist and spreading misinformation as a strategy then the very practice of that type of journalism itself is an endorsement of that misinformation rather than a block on it
If you are quoting or citing Josh Hawley — a white supremacist who incited the Jan. 6 insurrection and spread the Big Lie and continues to do so to this day — without adding a single clause that provides any context, you are supporting the spread of intentional misinformation
If your article quotes Ted Cruz without noting that Ted Cruz lied and continues to lie about the 2020 election then is it journalism or is it the top story in the Ted Cruz Newsletter Presented By Ted Cruz
The media’s limitless ability to take everything Republicans lie about and turn it into “Why are you hearing more about X? We asked Republicans to say more about it” is how the news industry willingly spread the Big Lie, CRT panic, and now “doors are the real problem”
journalists go to press conferences wondering “what will the newsiest thing be” and if someone with a Title Before Their Name interrupts it then their squirrel brain will go “wow that’s the lede!” and they spell “lead” like that even in their head because they think it’s so cool
if you’re a public official in the democratic party and your default to doing anything is “I respect my colleagues on the other side of the aisle” you’re working for the people on the other side of the aisle
The media is scolding the left for protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, but the media is rewarding the white supremacists who literally chanted "hang Mike Pence" by giving them access and legitimacy on major news platforms every day to help them erase January 6
Calling a white nationalist who spread misinformation to millions of people and tried to execute public officials to overthrow the government a “protester” is objectively a lie, but because Republicans run news networks this is not just accepted but heavily encouraged
The mainstream media is deliberately and unapologetically whitewashing the history and behavior of domestic terrorists to serve their goal of pushing Republican propaganda on the air