Keith Olbermann

ificandream

(10,507 posts) Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:28 AM Jan 2022

Blistering Chuck Todd

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I have to disagree with Keith a little on this one. Real journalists have to play a centrist role, to a certain extent. MSNBC certainly isn't Fox. I don't know that he's placating authoritarianism, though. Was it tactics or substance? I thought it was just brainlessness on the part of both her and Manchin.

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Blistering Chuck Todd (Original Post) ificandream Jan 2022 OP

Real journalists shouldn't be on either side or both sides. They should just be accurate Walleye Jan 2022 #1

Amen. jrthin Jan 2022 #6

Correct, but ... ificandream Jan 2022 #8

No that's a good point Walleye Jan 2022 #9

Pick sides - or point out idiocy and explain why it's contrary to NoMoreRepugs Jan 2022 #2

Well... Mike Nelson Jan 2022 #3

Chucky is a "tv journalist".. agingdem Jan 2022 #4

His background is politics ... ificandream Jan 2022 #10

because he chooses the "guests" agingdem Jan 2022 #11

Chuck is a corporate journalist. His job is to report what his bosses want to hear. Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #5

For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #7

Chuck Todd needs to be fired LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #12

Walleye

(35,658 posts)

1. Real journalists shouldn't be on either side or both sides. They should just be accurate

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:36 AM

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jrthin

(4,964 posts)

6. Amen.

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 10:11 AM

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ificandream

(10,507 posts)

8. Correct, but ...

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 12:19 PM

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Making a statement in an interview doesn't necessarily mean he believes that. Again, this isn't Fox.

Walleye

(35,658 posts)

9. No that's a good point

Reply to ificandream (Reply #8)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 12:20 PM

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NoMoreRepugs

(10,513 posts)

2. Pick sides - or point out idiocy and explain why it's contrary to

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:44 AM

Jan 2022

reality and the FACTS? Seems easy to me.

Mike Nelson

(10,281 posts)

3. Well...

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 09:05 AM

Jan 2022

... it was about "tactics" but voting rights in a healthy Democracy is not a "mild" concern. We need more Senators in the "D" column...

agingdem

(8,541 posts)

4. Chucky is a "tv journalist"..

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 09:19 AM

Jan 2022

not a real "I gotta degree in journalism" journalist...he's a fraud...

ificandream

(10,507 posts)

10. His background is politics ...

Reply to agingdem (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 12:27 PM

Jan 2022

I don't trust Wikipedia, but this says he attended George Washington University and declared a major in political science. So his background is politics.

Doing interviews, you have a latitude of what you can say because the object is getting information. And I really think what stirs everyone about him is that he casts a wide net sometimes. The lack of a journalism degree is interesting, but why is NBC keeping him then? He's a good (and thorough) interviewer. You don't have to agree with everything he says or asks. The end game is information for the viewer.

agingdem

(8,541 posts)

11. because he chooses the "guests"

Reply to ificandream (Reply #10)

Tue Jan 25, 2022, 01:39 PM

Jan 2022

because he gives the right wing loonies a forum to spout their garbage with zero follow up and no push back..but when and if he hosts a Democrat, the questions are pointed and biased with follow up and pushback...Chucky's shtick is not so much both-sides-do-it..it's both-sides-do-it-but-the-Dems-do-it-worse..my husband was a poli-sci major back in the day but that didn't make him an expert on all things politics and it certainly didn't qualify him to be a "tv journalist"...