Richard Tofel, the former president of ProPublica, a Wall Street Journal veteran and former longtime media lawyer, offers some grounding on what to make of our current media environment
Excellent overview! I would add - full disclosure: I am NOT a journalist - real-time fact checking … especially when a Trump outburst is so blatantly false. Example: His statement about Gavin Newsome’s “Water Restoration Declaration”—an easy Google should have shown that Declaration non-existent.
We were honored to get Tofel on, this is exactly the type of grounding that Patrick and I shoot for in the guests that we choose
My modest fix for this, over the last five years, has been to stop reporting Trump's comments in realtime, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. He's proven himself to be a blatantly poor source of information, no matter how big the title is that he holds
Excellent overview! I would add - full disclosure: I am NOT a journalist - real-time fact checking … especially when a Trump outburst is so blatantly false. Example: His statement about Gavin Newsome’s “Water Restoration Declaration”—an easy Google should have shown that Declaration non-existent.
We were honored to get Tofel on, this is exactly the type of grounding that Patrick and I shoot for in the guests that we choose
My modest fix for this, over the last five years, has been to stop reporting Trump's comments in realtime, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. He's proven himself to be a blatantly poor source of information, no matter how big the title is that he holds
Oh, Trump, he excels at so many things!
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