to this broadcast, that s because we can. here s the list of pulitzer prizes, they get to be introduced as pulitzer prize-winning journalists. that s great thing. and these are newspaper reporters in the midst of a newspaper war. during a time when most of us experience newspapers on the same device we use to make phone calls. these pulitzer prize-winning journalists went back to work after finding out they d won. we would forgive them to enjoy multiple beverages with their colleagues, but parker and rucker came on tonight because it s the work and the story that matters most to them. it s why they matter so greatly
is because right now there s kind of a there s a general climate of people attacking the press and its credibility. granted, newspaper reporters and television reporters are different than a reporter writing a book on the president. reporting practice that goes into it is not a situation that you want to be too loose because that s a lesson taken and applied to other situations it could be problematic. because right now so many of us are having to defend the way we do our work. which, you know, depends on integrity and triple sourcing and making sure you are very straight with people when you re on the record and off the record and everything nuanced in between because that s how we maintain our credibility. so this is a little thing that is happening in a bubble but unfortunately there s no way to have a bubble in this environment right now. and the more there s a focus on this spat now between michael wolff and the president, first of all the book sales are through the roof, but al
in a way, having a fact-checker can be a camouflage or a mask for what actually produces distorted news. that is a story choice, rather than little mistakes it might be picked up by a fact-checker. jon: you go to what you just said, political referring to emily cochran, the person who is just given this job at the new york times, politico wrote this, unlike magazines who have fact-checkers, cochrane, emily cochran does not deal with sources. she would likely not have prevented the type of high-profile sourcing mistakes made recently by abc news or cn cnn. franco, if you re fact-checker can t deal with sources, then they are limited in their role. there s no question about it. it stops with us. as newspaper reporters, it s our byline and on the story.
exactly. there s been a litany of newspaper reporters. this is great reporting. when we talk about freedom and the value of the press and ks posing what the powerful wants to keep secret, we re seeing almost every day an example of it. since you brought up nixon how do you think this compares? is this comparable to the tapes the e-mails? i one say it s comparable yet. the overall questions about who did what, to what end if the trump campaign. this is one of the great scandals of american political history and its potential is to be greater than the watergate, that s a potential. i sit here and listen to you and as i listen to you i think about that old saying is that, if we don t pay attention to history we re bound doomed
why did the navy conduct this operation now? reporter: well, that s the question, sandra, that many are asking. it comes at a time when the u.s. needs china s cooperation to curtail north korea s nuclear program. some newspaper reporters questioned whether the trump administration had forestalled these operations to secure china s help with north korea. for the first time since president trump took office an american guided missile destroyer sailed within 12nautical miles of one of china s man made islands. the uss dewey passed near the mischief reef in the spratley chain, one of three islands built by china in the past three years containing a runway and military fortify kaeugs. china began building seven islands starting in 2014 in the south china sea where $5 trillion of trade passed through these waters each year. sandra? sandra: what s the reaction we re seeing from china on all this?