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Chuck Todd Accidentally Tells the Truth
NBC's Meet the Press isn't exactly the cutting edge of journalism these days, but on yesterday's episode, host Chuck Todd said something really, really insightful.
During a panel discussion about how and why Americans are so cynical about our corporate-owned media, Todd told comedian Lewis Black that if he "barks" at politicians - AKA asks them tough questions - they won't come back on his show.
Amazing, right?
The host of probably the most influential Sunday show in the country basically admitted that he won't do hard-hitting interviews because he knows that lying politicians will refuse to come back on his show if he calls out their lies. And, for a show like Meet the Press, if no politician will come on the air, there's no show. This, in a nutshell, is everything that's wrong with the American media, and it's a clear demonstration of how badly broken our political and media cultures have become.
Remember, the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment to the Constitution so that the press could speak truth to power and challenge the political establishment. Some of the Founders actually believed that having a free press was more important than having a government.
Thomas Jefferson, for example, once said that, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." And Jefferson was tormented by the newspapers of his era! Those are powerful words, and they're still relevant today, more than 200 years later.
-Thom
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