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Home Front: Politix
NBC's Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated' Hillary was in heartland and we ‘underplayed' it
2017-01-31
[Wash Times] NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist."
Forgive me father. It has been 57 years since my last confession.
What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."

"Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland," the "Meet the Press" host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the "1947" podcast.

"And I think it was a fear of, ’Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’" he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous "Hillary for Prison" signs adorning the front yards of rural America.

"I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears," Mr. Todd said. "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.

If this were true, there would be no press. Reporting is supposed to focus conflict, change and trend. As for groups, it's "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

This not a case of poor news judgement, it was clearly propaganda.

Worse, they're doubling down again.
Posted by: regular joe   2017-01-31 15:39  

#7  No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is. unless they're white, male or Christian."

That's more like it.
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-31 11:44  

#6  "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is."

And there we have in a single sentence an admission that the news isn't really the news.
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-31 10:48  

#5  Why, yes, the MSM is the home of Fake News.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-01-31 07:43  

#4  If by "underplay" he means totally abdicated any semblance of journalistic integrity, than yeah, underplayed sound bout right.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-01-31 07:30  

#3  So, basically, this guy tells Hillary "I've contributed to your humiliating defeat.". Smart.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-01-31 07:24  

#2  So Chuckie admits they slant the news according to their own political beliefs. They sure pulled one over on Clinton telling her she didn't need to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Posted by: jpal   2017-01-31 07:21  

#1  Never let real news get in the way of fake news.
Posted by: Airandee    2017-01-31 06:23  

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