CNN Panel: Should the Media Report More on the Trump ‘Threat’?

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Wallace: “And that is the continuing debate about how we in the media should be covering both of these candidates. And it really became kind of a debate this week. Former Obama advisers they‘re Dan Pfeiffer went after The New York Times and he said that they do not see their job as saving democracy or stopping and authoritarian from taking power. The times executive editor Joe khan responded, that‘s essentially saying that the news media should become a propaganda arm for a single candidate. Right-hand, should the media report more on an I say this some quotes that Trump threat.”

SALAM: “Look, the media is very pluralistic in our society, yhat‘s a good and healthy thing. And there‘s an awful lot of prestige media that is fixated on this idea of Donald Trump as a threat. And in doing so so in many cases, they‘ve torched and undermine their credibility as independent, neutral arbiters of the truth. I think that‘s what Joe kahn was reacting to this sense that actually there are an awful lot of Americans who are tuning out prestige mainstream establishment media that has been basically why New York Times let me, let me say that.”

SWISHER: “First of all, Dan didn‘t say quite what he was Joe was asked Joe calm was as secondly, this quote was, I get that, but chilcott, nobody thinks they‘re the state news agency. He said that they would state news agency. He was basically saying pfeiffer and a lot of people look, yeah. I now say negative things about Biden and do all of that. But there is an existential threat. He claims to the democracy and that needs to be emphasized, right?”

Garcia-NAVARRO: “But I think Joe kahn went too far what I have to be the Chinese news? I was like, what more covering of the threat to democracy I think I think The New York Times justifiably gets joked about in New York Times, pitch bought for saying whatever happens, there‘s three people in a diner in I do work for The New York Times, so it feels odd that we‘re discussing The New York Times and I‘m not going to say this. Let me, let me just say one thing which we‘re not talking about. The but but but I want to I want to use this as an example and I think it works for The New York Times as it does for any other mainstream media, which is this, if you look over the past two days, you‘ve had an article on the an investigation into a worm in the brain of Kennedy. You‘ve had huge investigation into Donald Trump‘s use of anti-Semitic tropes and language and how unbelievably hypocritical it is for people on the right to be going after what‘s your take on the left and no an investigation into Biden. And so what I‘m saying is, what are we trying to do here in the media? Are we trying to say two people you need to understand this in this particular way. We need to lecture you, or we are going to respect people to be able to look at all these facts and make their own decisions. And I would argue, we are trying we are trying to respect our audience and what The New York Times is doing is a very robust interrogation of everyone.”

SWISHER: “Well, I think there are justifiable criticism about The New York Times coverage. I won‘t go into it.”