{"id":37348,"date":"2018-09-04T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37348"},"modified":"2018-09-04T09:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:51:06","slug":"chuck-todd-blames-fox-for-press-distrust-urges-liberal-media-to-rise-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37348","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To &#8216;Rise Up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-04\/chuck-todd-blames-fox-press-distrust-urges-liberal-media-rise#comment-12308404\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To &#8216;Rise Up&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"18467\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"18467\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\">\n<article class=\"profile\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-user-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\"><strong>In what we initially assumed was a satire piece, <\/strong>NBC News&#8217; <em>&#8216;fair and balanced&#8217;<\/em>political chief Chuck Todd has taken to the auspiciously open-minded pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/09\/its-time-for-the-press-to-stop-complainingand-to-start-fighting-back\/569224\/\">The Atlantic to pen an op-ed\u00a0 <\/a>explaining how we&#8217;ve all got it all wrong &#8211; <strong><em>it is Fox News&#8217; Roger Ailes who is to blame for press distrust and in fact, it is time for the mainstream liberal media to &#8216;rise up&#8217; and defend their work.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Presented with no comment (but some emphasis), here is Chuck Todd explaining that <strong><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s time for the press to stop complaining&#8230; and start fighting back.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/09\/its-time-for-the-press-to-stop-complainingand-to-start-fighting-back\/569224\/\"><em>Via The Atlantic,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News&#8217;s Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of media outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/1%201%20C4-G8lCWQAAXYAg.jpg?itok=hWDpPmMx\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/1%201%20C4-G8lCWQAAXYAg.jpg?itok=hWDpPmMx\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/1%201%20C4-G8lCWQAAXYAg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/1%201%20C4-G8lCWQAAXYAg.jpg?itok=hWDpPmMx 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"1e822441-7fd3-4928-b62e-da56aef104b5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve devoted much of my professional life to the study of political campaigns,<\/strong> not as a historian or an academic but as a reporter and an analyst. I thought I\u2019d seen it all, from the bizarre upset that handed a professional wrestler the governorship of Minnesota to the California recall that gave us the Governator to candidates who die but stay on the ballot and win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But there\u2019s a new kind of campaign underway,<\/strong> one that most of my colleagues and I have never publicly reported on, never fully analyzed, and never fully acknowledged: <strong>the campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American news media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bashing the media for political gain isn\u2019t new, and neither is manipulating the media to support or oppose a cause. These practices are at least as old as the Gutenberg press. But antipathy toward the media right now has risen to a level I\u2019ve never personally experienced before. The closest parallel in recent American history is the hostility to reporters in the segregated South in the 1950s and \u201960s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Todd Blames Fox For Press Distrust, Urges Liberal Media To &#8216;Rise Up&#8217; In what we initially assumed was a satire piece, NBC News&#8217; &#8216;fair and balanced&#8217;political chief Chuck Todd has taken to the auspiciously open-minded pages of The Atlantic to pen an op-ed\u00a0 explaining how we&#8217;ve all got it all wrong &#8211; it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14466,3230,462,512,14796,570,1494,21519,815],"class_list":["post-37348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chuck-todd","tag-fox-news","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-nbc-news","tag-news","tag-press","tag-roger-ailes","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37349,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37348\/revisions\/37349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}