First and foremost: Chuck Todd isn’t wrong.
The NBC News stalwart’s column in the Atlantic ably assesses the state of American media and, more specifically, the long-term effort by political conservatives to breed distrust in objective journalism. He isn’t wrong that this is not new to President Trump, and he isn’t wrong that the media have done a bad job stemming this trend. …
The problem with Todd’s essay, in which he squarely identifies the culpability of Fox News and its former head Roger Ailes, it that it’s more of an autopsy than a diagnosis. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post
