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21 Jan 20
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16 Jan 20Todd Suomela
"That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it."
media-studies media-reform journalism failure disinformation propaganda
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It’s not naiveté. It’s a willful blindness to what the Republican Party had become. Four years before Trump was elected, Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein wrote, “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” Chuck Todd as NBC’s political director, and Meet the Press as its premiere politics show could have taken seriously what these exemplary members of the Washington establishment were saying back in 2012. They chose not to, but not because of their naiveté. They thought they knew better than Mann and Ornstein. And they were probably afraid of sounding too extreme themselves.
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A key premise for Meet the Press is symmetry between the two major political parties. The whole show is built on that. But in the information sphere — the subject of Chuck Todd’s confessions — asymmetry has taken command. The right wing ecosystem for news does not operate like the rest of the country’s news system. And increasingly conservative politics is getting sucked into conservative media. It makes more sense to see Fox News and the Trump White House as two parts of the same organism. As these trends grind on they put stress on Meet the Press practices. But it takes imagination to see how the show might be affected— or changed. In place of that we have Chuck Todd pleading naiveté.
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02 Jan 20
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27 Dec 19martineaup
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
Great piece by @jayrosen_nyu lambasting the media for being so slow to acknowledge the right's full-throttle use of sheer *disinformation,* and media figures' inability (or unwillingness?) to fully adapt to the deep asymmetries it has produced:
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Stabitha Christie
Worth reading.
The basic takeaway: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” https://t.co/ogKzrbiVgL -
Steve Walker
So, one, this was so spot on, and infuriating, and frightening in that we know little will likely come of Todd’s admissions. Two, what is glaring but unsaid — this is just another stark example of the lie of objectivity. This reveals the subjective decisi
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Kathy Gill
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
@kegill Here's my piece on it, Kathy. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr
Most read piece on Media Twitter today? Probably @jayrosen_nyu's post about @ChuckTodd. "That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it..." https://t.co/514KVPQVNG
I generally think people flame Chuck Todd because it's a thing on Twitter. But this @jayrosen_nyu piece isn't that. It's pretty damning. https://t.co/YNiwoSrkIv
--> The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd https://t.co/mITR26fNex
Many thanks to those who shared this and made it my most read writing of the year— by far.
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Garrett Eastman
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
Worth reading.
The basic takeaway: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” https://t.co/ogKzrbiVgL -
Cheryl Ross
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
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C Hayes
“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
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26 Dec 19
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Sheri Edwards
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
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Joe Bonner
The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd. https://t.co/64nLjKiXqr My new post. I hope you will read it.
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