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Person testify on capitol hill in the next three years? i mean, if they re is this john dean? if they re identified and i m just making a bet here, i feel like the name is just going to come out. the reporting around the white house right now is strong enough you re going to get a short list pretty quickly. i mean, if this person is like how do you not call hearings now and say, okay this is somebody who according to his firsthand account is witness to extremely troubling things that any congressional investigation, certainly any committee of impeachment would want to know about, again if democrats take one of the chambers you can bet that if this person is identified he d be very high on a witness list. again it does raise this question of why not come out publicly reveal who you are? i wonder if we re inching towards that? when the woodward excerpts came out this week, i thought, great that they talked to woodward, it s a fantastic way to corral this journalism and re ....
Like reenforcement tool to the president if it turns out to be something not what it appears. you can have a journalism on ethics debate there, but i think chuck and i are both saying that we have extreme respect for james bennett, the editor. yeah, i can t like i said, i think he s a man of high integrity. i ve got to imagine this. michael beshlos, on the media aspect here, it seems like every sort of presidential moment that s aweed in american history, has a challenge for the press of that time. this feels a similar moment. no, i think that s exactly right, and the press is the only business that s protected in the constitution very much the idea the founders that they would save the country if necessary. and one other thing, chuck, if i could bring this sort of full circle, we were talking a few moments ago about the fact that this all what is being written about in this op-ed ....
Along the lines of what i was saying earlier, that if you are making an argument, you should have the wherewithal and the belief in putting your name to that argument. at the same time, i completely you know, i can t say whether we would have done it or not, so i don t want to sound churlish. and it is using anonymous is a very important tool in the toolbox for my colleagues in the newsroom. so not judging. shane, you and i have had a back and forth about the issue of access journalism and sort of this is an interesting test case of access journalism. like the times wants access to this op-ed. the price of it is anonymity. it s a tough decision. i m with ruth, i m not sure, you know, if i were offered to interview this person, put him in a black curtain, voice change, i don t know. yeah, it s a very tough call. i recognize i am on the news ....
Things. a lot of new and different ways for the president to circumvent the news media and speak directly to the people he s trying to reach, which is not all of the american people. it is that group of trump supporters. it is obviously time for the news media to lock ok at a lot things it has done in the past that will not work when covering the trump presidency, and why jay rosen says that the model of political journalism is broken and outdated. today he wrote, a man in power untroubled by contradictions and comfortable in the confusion he creates cannot be held accountable by normal means. among the habits the news media will have to change is the very high value that it places on access journalism. professor rosen writes, don t make it all about access to the president and his aides who are preserving the routines of white house reporting as the press ....
Political journalism is broken and outdated. today he wrote, a man in power untroubled by contradictions and comfortable in the confusion he creates cannot be held accountable by normal means. among the habits the news media will have to change is the very high value that it places on access journalism. professor rosen writes, don t make it all about access to the president and his aides who are preserving the routines of white house reporting as the press corps is doing. it is likely to be constructed on a propaganda model in which fomenting confusion is not a drag but a sign that it s working. access to such a machinery could wind up enlisting the press in a misinformation campaign. professor rosen also says the news media will have to rethink the big get, booking the big interview with the white house inside ....