GOP Pundit Slams Trump: Tells All Male Panel Autopsying Media They Missed the Forest for the Trees
“I think we’re staring at trees and missing the forest,” Wallace said. “We’ve just elected a man who bullies female reporters at his rally as an applause line. We have just elected a man who started a hot war with a female anchor instead of intending a debate she moderated. We are in a new place. And I don’t think it’s good. And I don’t think it has any parallels to the past. And I don’t think Trump needs the press. But I think he wants them like an addict craves their drugs.”
It is evident she was attempting to open up the discussion to be more reality based. But her statements were basically ignored. The purpose of Todd’s several panels was commendable. He wanted to examine why the media is held in such contempt and what they could do to improve it. Unfortunately, he failed miserably to have a serious discussion mostly because all his panels were insiders, predominantly white males of somewhat congruous viewpoints, a few white females scattered in, and one black man, the executive editor Dean Baquet of the New York Times, an establishment newspaper whose gravity gives its leader little leeway.
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