Ex-NBC News host Brian Williams called out his fellow journalists in a statement to the Washington Post on Monday for failing to find the right words to describe a “visibly struggling” President Biden during his tenure.
Williams told the Washington Post that the journalistic language used in today’s media is “lazy, paralyzing and normalizing in a time of urgency and urgency.”
The Post published a report with quotes from ten journalists who expressed their views on how the press should report on the second term of newly elected President Donald Trump.
“It’s actually insulting and a gross disservice to those watching and listening – because it doesn’t match what they’ve just seen or heard for themselves. It was crushing to see so many working journalists trying to generate the words to accurately describe a visibly struggling situation.” and a diminished president, seemingly unable to complete a sentence or a thought in his disastrous and final debate,” Williams said.
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Brian Williams called out fellow journalists in a statement to the Washington Post. (Reuters)
“Say it with me: It is perhaps the ultimate irony that the 2024 electoral collapse of the Democratic Party was caused in large part by the man who ran to save the country and democracy — the same man who then tried for too long to stay at the fair. There I said it. Please say it into a microphone. You can do it,” he said.
The Post also spoke to other members of the press, such as ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, who encouraged the press to focus on what Trump does, rather than what he says.
“The media should also report less on what Trump says and more on what he does. Too often, journalists let Trump’s latest cruel or bigoted comment dominate the news cycle. Too rarely do they devote the front page to the man’s radical actions.” Lemon said.
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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
During a performance On late-night television after the election, Williams said the Democratic Party needed to be “rebuilt.”
The former host said Democrats promoted “offensive” campaign language.
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“Describe this second Trump administration without fear or favor,” Jill Abramson, former editor-in-chief of the New York Times, told the Washington Post.
Abramson said Elon Musk would be a blow to reporters, adding: “If the policies work and the new administration deserves credit, do these stories.”
