a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish and reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit.
this way and they re doing it for exploitation purposes let s not give them the ammunition. t tucker: that s unbelievable. that s by the way not neutral thinking and notle clear thinking. it s not the way that journalists think. it s the way that political operatives think. their first concern is always how will the otherop side benefit from this? how can we win the next campaign? that s how they think because that s exactly what they are doing. joe concha covers media for the hill and he joins us tonight joe, do you think the real problem with buzzfeed given segments too this where mean commentators on fox news give segue to stories like this. is that really the core problem of the story would you say? let me address chuck todd there people don t realize. this is he not only the moderator of meet the press. he is also the political director of nbc news. here s the thing. everybody all those anchors and pundits you just show a had ample warning there was a serious problem with this
a rare statement calling buzzfeed s reporting inaccurate. talk about a bombshell. [laughter] you might say. the mueller team almost always refuses to comment publicly about things it is doing. it was a humbling moment for the press. they were not humbled though. how do we know? on meet the press, chuck todd the host said the problem wasn t that the press was foolish andhe reckless and bad at their job of reporting. and the story wound up being untrue. o that wasn t the real problem. no. the real problem was that having an untrue story exposed might help conservatives. the problem is the fake news problem any time any time that somebody gets something so spectacularly wrong and everybody piles on it furthers the narrative this is another american institution that the people of our country can t trust, that s the problem with the buzzfeed story. no, it is and got to remind people there are people who want to exploit. they want to see us be put
they want to see us be put this way and they re doing it for exploitation purposes let s not give them the ammunition. tucker: that s unbelievable. that s by the way not neutral thinking and not clear thinking. it s not the way that journalists think. it s the way that political operatives think. their first concern is always how will the other side benefit from this? how can we win the next campaign? that s how they think because that s exactly what they are doing. joe concha covers media for the hill and he joins us tonight. joy, do you think thajoe, do yok the real problem with buzzfeed given segments to this where mean commentators on fox news give segue to stories like this. let me address chuck todd there people don t realize. this is he not only the moderator of meet the press. he is also the political director of nbc news. here s the thing. everybody all those anchors and pundits you just show had ample warning there was a serious problem with this story. on friday morning,
putting it in a drawer. locking it, telling cuomo he wasn t being taped and then saying personal things. if he were to testify, we would point out can you believe that this man would not lie in order to stay out of jail? speaking of taping, mr. mayor, on meet the press this morning, omarosa, who was fired from the white house eight months ago, played a tape or nbc played the tape of john kelly firing her in the situation room eight months ag . she claims he threatened her, the early stories that she taped donald trump. what you make of that? i don t know. i m not representing the president in that. a you are not handling the case. i think between john kelly and omarosa, i know them both well. i would go with the general, the marine corps general. so i don t want to get into that but a me ask you this. you want to be talking to