Chuck Todd Blasts ‘Nearly 50-Year Campaign To Delegitimize The Press’

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Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” wrote in The Atlantic Monday that conservative media figures, namely Roger Ailes, were responsible for cultivating a strategic distrust of the media as part of “a nearly 50-year campaign of vilification” and personally profiting “by exploiting the fears of older white people.” 

“I’m not advocating for a more activist press in the political sense, but for a more aggressive one,” Todd wrote, urging fellow journalists to “not [allow] ourselves to be spun” as “biased.” 

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  1. And it only took him twenty years to notice it.

  2. wait a second here, i am an older white person and the only thing i am afraid of is Dumpty and his right wing assholes.

  3. This from the poster boy for bothsidesism? Right message, wrong messenger. Tired of hypocrites.

  4. Avatar for theod theod says:

    And yet he claimed that his job wasn’t to determine the truth of any particular situation. When he starts acting differently on tv, perhaps we’ll take him seriously.

  5. Gee, Rumpelstiltskin, glad you finally woke up.

    Now what are you gonna do? Go back to being a pollster? Corporate tool? Pick up a another keg for the frat buddies?

    He’s useless and a poor replacement for Tim Russert.

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