Donald Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview was a media failure to defend truth

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2024/12/08/trump-meet-the-press/76794389007/

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  1. “Donald Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview was a*n ongoing and continual* media failure to defend truth” FIFY

  2. Looks like Chucks replacement there eats from the same ass he did. Fuck MTP.

  3. Kristen Welker is the living embodiment of ‘media failure to defend truth’.

  4. And I’m bored with it.

    We did this for basically 9 years.

    9 Years of Trump getting kiddie gloves from the media. 9 Years of seemingly endless Trump lies.

    I was done with it 9 years ago, I am still done with it.

    He can say whatever the fuck he wants – I don’t have to listen – and fortunately, he’s so stupid half of what he wants will probably fail anyway.

  6. The media continues to show unmitigated commitment to sensationalism. Trump was elected specifically because the media/journalists refused to do their jobs.

    They let this man slide too often and refuse to pin him down on the bullcrap he spouts. It doesnt have to be about demonizing him, but specifically calling out the absurdity of his positions

  8. There is going to be no truth at all this go around. And the media made it happen for him.

  9. Why is anyone surprised, the press failed to hold him accountable for the last 8 years, why would that magically change in one interview

  11. The Fourth Estate no longer holds Republicans accountable and couldn’t speak truth to power if AI even wrote it all for them.

  12. Her boss likely said if you say anything negative, you’re fired. You could see it in her eyes.

  14. Love how he talks about jailing elected reps and it’s like ahhhh cool cool interesting

  15. They don’t want truth they want revenue. That’s the easiest way to view American news

  16. Yeah that’s her thing she asks stupid questions that makes her look dumb. And that she knows are wrong, but I guess she thinks she’s smart by asking them anyway.

  17. Look, there is no entity coming to save us. Foster strong relationships between people you can trust and prepare for SHTF. 

  18. I was a *Meet the Press* viewer since Tim Russert was the host. After the election, I decided to stop watching pretty much all broadcast media. Every single Sunday that decision looks smarter.

  19. The press has totally and utterly failed all of us. They are pathetic

  20. Any legitimate interview with Donald Trump should end with him abruptly terminating the interview and leaving the room.

  21. They will probably try to erase history soon enough.

  23. We all made fun of Baghdad Bob and his pressers! Come Jan 21st brace yourselves! ALL news WILL BE GREAT! /s

  24. I turned it off. If he is just going to lie to us I’m not listening.

    It’s gross. Fuck all these people.

  25. The media doesn’t give a fuck about the truth. They care about rating. They won’t risk pissing off Trump fans and losing viewers.

  26. Don’t watch any interviews with 45. It will kill brain cells faster than RFK Jrs brain worm.

  27. If Americans gave a crap about the truth we wouldn’t be modern Americans. As in crappier Americans than we ever dreamed we’d become.

  29. I don’t know what these people think they have to lose… just access?

    These journalists who handle him with kid gloves are in no less danger than hard-nosed investigators when they just say, “Ahhh… ummm… there’s a chance Trump’s accuracy with that claim may have been a bit off, there…”

    Either tell it like it is, or leave the profession and get to a little more safety. But don’t go out with half-measures.

  30. Kristen welker is absolute garbage as a journalist. She has been this pathetic for a while.

  31. Fuck trump and fuck the mainstream media. They’re two different horses on the same broke ass carousel.

  33. Media is weak and Democrats are unable to put criminals in jail. Donald Trump taught me that

  34. Please, truth died in 2016 when that orange fuck rode that escalator and the media couldn’t wait to give him all the free coverage they could. Made those corporate assholes and their shareholders richer and have thoroughly fucked the United States and the rest of the world. We tried to come back but they still never called him on his bullshit, and now we have an oligarchy run by some of the stupidest people in the world. If we survive until 2028 and his passing the torch to Don Jr or whoever, I’ll be surprised.

  35. 9 years of this clown on headlines DAILY! and he’s never blabbed a single policy centric sentence.

  36. Its obvious that we still don’t know the straw that will break this fuckers back. He continues to not understand basic concepts and yet here we are. I can’t imagine any ally giving us secrets or having our back.

  39. most media owned by big corporations doing their bidding…the concept of free press today is nowhere near as free as it must be

  40. Welker is a weak interviewer and she barely challenged/pushed back on Trump’s lies

  41. It’s only a failure if the media report g is trying to report the truth.

  42. Suspend your belief that the media truly exists to tell you the truth, inform you of what’s really going on and to actually hold politicians accountable and you’ll be fine.

  43. I mean the dude is taking over because he called in bomb threats in the swing states and we all act like it’s normal 

  44. The press is no longer the fourth state or even acting in the interest of America. They, with the exception of Fox News, have failed to update their reporting to the new paradigm of American Politics. They have so much muscle memory covering a symmetrical race where norms are norms.

    Combine that ‘ asleep at the wheel’ mentality with a financial obligation to make a battle or a horse race out of absolutely everything and you’ve basically got an entire industry with their head in the sand. And this is the very best reading of the issue. A much less favorable one would include a conflict of interest from their billionaire owners interested in joining a billionaire supplicant president’s cabinet.

    There’s been a couple of exceptions, Swan at axios is one. But they’re so far and few between that they can all be excused as aberrations because every other interview of trump and frankly even his supporters is so mealy mouthed that he and they can say whatever they want without consequence.

    They need to stop taking what said at face value. I mean they still ask the Democrats how they’re going to pay for things. Has anybody asked how they’re going to pay for a mass deportation exercise?

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