Contrast and compare NBC's Chuck Todd complaining about Stephen Colbert while MSNBC's "Morning Joe" team hosted him in South Carolina.
It's interesting how reporters like Todd, NBC's White House correspondent, allow politicians to get away with a bounty of lies and half truths, and then take Colbert to task for actually exposing the corruption and cronyism in American politics via satire.
What seems to irk Todd is that mainstream journalism isn't taken very seriously by his colleagues or the public.
Question: Is he upset about how Fox News makes a mockery of truth, reality, and journalism?
I don't take "The Daily Show" or "The Colbert Report" seriously as journalism: it's a fake news show. It's where I get my chuckles, not my news.
But increasingly I've noticed how the media feels, as in the case of Todd, that it has to respond to a fake news show. Why?
In reality, the American political process has done more to damage itself than a fake news show.
It really underscores how thin skinned American journalists, particularly the TVvariant.
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"Easy," says I, "their masters tell them to." These days, the FREE PRESS, ain't.....
Maybe the media is afraid that people will start to take them as a joke news program too. After all, there isn't a great deal of difference any more!
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If so how could you doubt him?
Don't tell me your one of those, you know, people that actually believe that was just a puff piece or propaganda for the talking heads who dictate truth to us. Are you?
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For Being real and timely with this post.