effort. and that does affect the psychology of the people watching it. so i think the idea of returning to a deeper debate and putting issues out there that are uncomfortable for people are good. it would probably be helpful to step back from like news now you truth.org. that s not a real one. and retweeting this click bait. again, twitter has i did i did divolved 5,000 years of that and shoots out flotsam. there s been so much coverage of the trump factor here. the president s celebration of the show. has the media made too much of that piece of the roseanne success story? i think the media has, but you know, brian, a lot of the
and this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. i think you get the idea there. all these anchors and all these markets required to read this script. it s attacking fake news. but really, what it s doing, it s kind of like the fox fair and balanced slogan. it s a way of saying, we re fair, everybody else is biased. it s taking a page out of trump s playbook. i ve been talking to staffers in markets, david, that say they re sickened by this, they re uncomfortable with it. quote, my staff is up in arms about this. you re in baltimore. sinclair is based up the road. what s your impression? i ve been reporting this story, as you know, since last summer. my first concern was when they hired boris epstein from the trump white house and made him the chief political analyst, and stations were dictated to carry
to me is these young kids have more maturity and purpose than most of the folks who are trying to cover the story, especially at fox. i find it a disingenuous argument to say they ve been put into or provoked or paid into becoming activists. these are survivors of a tragedy. i think you have to also take into account the idea that this is weeks ago, maybe a month ago. could you imagine going through something like that and having the ability to speak on the washington mall and activate yourself while pushing into the back of your mind what you have suffered through? so i think that this you know, these radio host folks who have become faces of fox news are realizing that acting like wrestling heels and saying what you want is unfortunately not the way it works. meeting speech with speech is
covering a story, you want to present people with all of the facts and all of the information hoping that they ll be able to be informed enough and go out and make what change they field is best. and i look at the march for our lives last weekend, and say journalists have to stay on the sidelines, or they have to be clear that they re not part of what s going on. that s where the fine line is between journalism and activism. i think that saying that journalism and activism should not be related at all is a very privileged mentality, because essentially choosing what stories we re going to cover and how we re going to cover them is a form of activism. we re choosing what s going to be covered in the media, how much we re going to cover it, how much we re going to go into the story itself. and when you re in a newsroom
and later, a segment you have to see about the effects of the pro trump media s attacks against the fbi. i also have press reporting about sinclair coming up. but first, the perfect story for april fool s day. hope hicks, the white house communications director, stepped down this week, leaving a big vacancy in the white house in the communications office specifically. now trump is thinking about hiring a new coms director. what he really needs to hire is a fact checker. this weekend, he s attacking amazon and its ceo jeff bezos in what appears to be a proxy war with the washington post. the connection here is that bezos runs amazon and separately owns the post. trump s been tweeting about amazon three times this week. he says amazon is scamming the u.s. postal system out of billions of dollars. he says the company is not paying its fair share of taxes. and that the washington post should register as a lobbyist. news outlets have been churning out fact check after fact check, corr