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Brian: so cold and bias by admission so to speak. one of the nations most well known papers the "new york times" says truth is more important than ever. "times" and "the washington post" say democracy do i dies in darkness. the post ignored the bombshell story then of susan rice unmasking members of the trump administration that came out over the weekend. so why arent journalists the story up even regardless of their take or what they hope will happen? lets ask managing editor britney hughes. br...

Brian williams. i wanted to put up a tweet from a viewer who asked me this morning, were talking at this point about almost a dozen apparent cases of misstatements. in any other industry wouldnt these be called lies? arent journalists supposed to hold polices accountable in the same way? why are these being called embellishments and not lies? >> because its not clear to me in some of these cases that they rise to the level of an outright lie. a couple of months ago when this controversy first em...

Outcome. martha: the backlash against woodward, oh, he is old. >> right. martha: here is the great bob woodward. obviously he just doesnt get it. >> right. martha: one of the things i want to ask you about, juan, there is such a new culture in the media today. there is blogosphere. how you get called a journalist is sort of an open question right now. you can be one if you say youre one. i wonder if this sort of cool, young, administration, that we have, that has such an appeal to so many people...

They would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldnt know what hit us. those standards havent changed. whats changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv arent journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do shows where they sit in front of, you know, in back of desks that look like anchor desks. they interview news makers, they talk about the news of the day. its sort of, kind of, looks like journalism but it is...

About them. they would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldnt know what hit us. those standards havent changed. whats changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv arent journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do shows where they sit in front of, you know, in back of desks that look like anchor desks. they interview news makers, they talk about the news of the day. its sort of, kind of, looks like journali...

They would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldnt know what hit us. those standards havent changed. whats changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv arent journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do shows where they sit in front of, you know, in back of desks that look like anchor desks. they interview news makers, they talk about the news of the day. its sort of, kind of, looks like journalism but it is...