Friday, February 17, 2017

Face the Nation host: Media has to take ownership for its own credibility issues

Hot Air  "John Dickerson provided this prescient comment early this morning to Hugh Hewitt, hardly knowing that national media outlets would only take a few hours to prove him right. The host of CBS’ Face the Nation discussed Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday, in which the president gave full vent to his frustration with the media — and the frustration of tens of millions of voters, too. Dickerson tells Hewitt that we can’t throw out our standards on how presidents handle the media, but that “the press did all that good work ruining its reputation on its own.”

"Dickerson specifically pointed out the tendency of the media to provide “hysterical coverage to every little thing”:



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