By Bre Payton
Friday, February 17, 2017
CBS’s John Dickerson joined Hugh Hewitt’s radio show
Friday to talk about Donald Trump’s 77-minute long confrontation with the media
earlier this week.
When Hewitt asked Dickerson if the media has betrayed the
trust of the American people, the “Face The Nation” host said the press did
that all on its own by acting hysterically about “every little thing.”
It’s not because of anything
obviously Donald Trump did. The press did all that good work ruining its
reputation on its own, and we can have a long conversation about what created
that. Part of it, though, is what you mentioned about the local weather report,
which is to say a lot of hysterical coverage about every little last thing that
doesn’t warrant it. Having said that, it doesn’t mean, and in fact, it most
explicitly does not mean that the press just throws out the standards.
Despite media’s overreaction to “every little thing,”
Dickerson pointed out that Trump made several egregious misstatements during
his midweek presser, and that the president ought not to posture as a
truth-teller if he is not precise with his own words.
“If you’re going to make a case on honesty grounds and
truthfulness grounds, if that’s the turf on which you’re going to hold your
press conference and open your press conference. . . to elide it completely
seems inconsistent with the argument that you’re making in the 77 minute press
conference,” he said.
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