POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)
NOMINEES:
1. Kristen Welker to Trump: Are You Taking the Country Down an “Authoritarian Path?”
“People who have lived in countries like the Philippines, Hungary, Russia, they look at some of your actions, going after civil service, going after universities, law firms, the media, they say it’s out of an authoritarian playbook. What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?”
— Moderator Kristen Welker to Donald Trump as aired on NBC’s Meet the Press, May 4.
2. Trump’s “Fundamental Attack On Our Constitution”
“I think what the President is doing, it is a fundamental attack on our Constitution, on the foundation of this country.….When you have a President of the United States who is making it his mission to attack the free press, we should all be concerned, whether we are at PBS or whether we are at MSNBC, because he’s focused on us too.”
— Washington Post associate editor/PBS contributor Jonathan Capehart on PBS’s News Hour, May 2.
3. Ken Burns: PBS “Puts the Us in the U.S.”
“The enrichment that PBS has brought to my life, to our collective lives is just undisputable. I think PBS is part of the pursuit of happiness machine….This is the Declaration of Independence applied to broadcasting….It’s just one of our crown jewels, like higher education that you mentioned at the beginning, like our national parks. This is who we are. It puts the us in the U.S.”
— Documentarian Ken Burns on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, May 2.
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