No. It’s time for the knives to come out. The current approach doesn’t work. WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO LOSE? Right now their method of “following up on nonanswers and lies” only gets them cut off and their question forgotten, and on to the next bullshit press conference the next day, over and over again. It’s not 1952. We live in an era where the old rules no longer apply.
Jeb Bush and John Kasich had your attitude during the 2016 primary, and look where that got them.
Their access to the White House.
Their access to the White House already yields them jackshit. These press conferences are the same bullshit over and over again, as I’ve said. There is not a single question that these reporters ask during the press conferences that ACTUALLY advances the anti-Trump momentum in any meaningful way.
And their credibility as journalists.
Hard disagree.
With Trump continually sinking in the deep end by spouting bullshit like this, do they really need to?
I think we need to rebuild trust in institutions like serious journalism, rather than join the Trumpist side in testing it down and adopting the idea that journalists should embrace bias and blatantly advance their own agendas.
That’s just bringing a knife to a gunfight. Not even a knife, a wiffle bat. It’s gotten us nowhere.
They are being authentic journalists, they are reporting the truth of what happens. They ask a question, he ignores or blathers on or lies. This is filmed and because the reporters are there we see these lies, evasions, rants. We know about Trump’s behaviors because it is being evoked by reporters and then their news agencies publish it. This is what journalists do. It isn’t their job to somehow force Trump to say what we want to hear how we want to hear it. Him being asked straight out “why do you lie Mr. President?” and then Trump petulantly stomping off tells all of us what we need to know.
A reporter from a real news outlet swearing at him, yelling at him gets that agency’s credentials yanked and then eventually only the extreme right news will be there.
Exactly. The problem isn’t that reporters aren’t aggressive; the problem is that too many people accept their politicians’ lie, evasions, and rants.
Amen to that.
I’ve often wondered why the journalists seem to be reporting everything with a straight face and NOT following up repeatedly with examples of where what Trump says is outright fabrications, lies or a 180 degree reversal of something he just said.
I mean, when he came out yesterday and said that Biden’s campaign was using the pandemic for political purposes, and that Biden’s plan wasn’t science-based, I about fell over. I mean, WE know that’s not the truth, but I suspect there’s a bunch of low-information voters and mush-headed people out there who need it spelled out for them how Trump has repeatedly politicized the pandemic response and shaped the response based on political, not public health guidelines, and how just about NOTHING he’s said with respect to the pandemic has been science-based.
That’s where they’re falling down- they’re not calling out direct untruths for what they are; they’re treating them as if there’s a component of opinion there when Trump says 2+2=3, instead of saying “Yeah, no, 2+2 does NOT equal 3, it equals 4.”
This X 1,000.
When it’s the first time you’ve been called on in five years … well, you might as well!
Lets hope he opens the floodgates