Ted Rall for October 03, 2018

“Meet the Press” should be about the Press, not the Pres….

Oh, come ON, Ted. You’re asking them to risk not getting invited to the White House correspondents dinner.

White House reporters, indeed it seems most establishment media reporters on US politics, gave up most of their dignity and self-respect for the sake of access, not to mention a lot of money.

Trump would probably like it if they brought back Jeff Gannon / James Guckert.

The road to trumps success.. Make up stuff… talk over your opponent.. ridicule those against you.. and toot your own horn, incessantly.

Well, I am sure many reporters would love (and could) give back as good as they get, but then you would have FOX and other right-wing state media complaining about the lack of objectivity and respect for the office (missing of course the big dump our present POTUS is taking there right now).

This doesn’t work so well in other countries. For example the U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands ran into reporters who wouldn’t quit. Every time he dodged a question the next reporter asked the same question. This went on until one said “This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-us-ambassador-netherlands-hoekstra-20180110-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZyKCplfXo

“No objectivity—just bias, bigotry and partisan”,perfectly describes the Republican Party.