Blistering Chuck Todd

[ificandream]

Last edited Tue Jan 25, 2022, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)

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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[Walleye]

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

[jrthin]

6. Amen.

[ificandream]

8. Correct, but ...

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

[Walleye]

9. No that's a good point

[NoMoreRepugs]

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

reality and the FACTS? Seems easy to me.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Well...

... 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]

4. Chucky is a "tv journalist"..

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

[ificandream]

10. His background is politics ...

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]

11. because he chooses the "guests"

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"...

[Midnight Writer]

5. Chuck is a corporate journalist. His job is to report what his bosses want to hear.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. For this thread

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Chuck Todd needs to be fired

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