Chuck Todd just lives in his own little world, doesn’t he? The MTP Daily host on Thursday again lashed out at claims of liberal media bias, lamenting that “false accusations” against the press caused journalists to question themselves.
Talking about accusations of censorship against Facebook and Twitter, Todd whined: “One of the mistakes we in the mainstream media made during when these false allegations against us for being biased for 40 years happened is we started believing, ‘Oh, maybe we are biased.’ ‘Oh, wait, we can’t look biased.’ So, then, we created a lot of false equivalency issues.”
Yes, that’s the problem. All the false equivalency problems created by reporters trying too hard to be balanced. Talking to technology journalist Kara Swisher, he ridiculously worried about the coming objectivity overreach in social media: “It looks to me that Silicon Valley is about to fall into that trap. How do they not fall into that trap?”
Swisher responded with a typical response: “By ignoring it completely.”
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Todd huffed that distrust by Americans of the mainstream media is simply a Fox News creation: “Well, the conservative echo chamber created the environment.... It's been a tactic and a tool of the Roger Ailes-created chamber. So, let's not pretend it is not anything other than that.”
A partial transcript is below:
MSNBC's MTP Daily
8/30/18
5:20 p.m. EasternCHUCK TODD: One of the mistakes we in the mainstream media made during when these false allegations against us for being biased for 40 years happened is we started believing, ‘oh, maybe we are biased.’ ‘Oh, wait, we can’t look biased.’ So, then, we created a lot of false equivalency issues.
KARA SWISHER (Recode executive editor): Yes.
TODD: It looks to me that Silicon Valley is about to fall into that trap. How do they not fall into that trap?
SWISHER: By ignoring it completely. Look at what Jeff Bezos is doing. He just doesn't say a word. I think Google has to just say this is not true and move along and stuff like that. Obviously, again, there are issues that all these companies should face of things they have done, but not this one.
