Rachel Maddow Reminds The Trump Administration How American Leaders Should Treat The Press
Tillerson really did have a smug smile on his face. Good video of this segment.
Rachel Maddow Reminds The Trump Administration How American Leaders Should Treat The Press
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/12/rachel-maddow-reminds-trump-free-press.html
By Sean Colarossi on Wed, Apr 12th, 2017 at 10:05 pm
Boy, how things have changed since Barack Obama left the White House. Nowhere is that more clear than respect for the free press, which has plummeted since Donald Trump took power.
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Video:
Maddow showed a clip of then-President Barack Obama urging Cuban President Raul Castro to take a question from NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, who he called an “esteemed journalist,” reminding us how American leaders are supposed to act when they’re in countries that restrict reporters’ rights.
Maddow said:
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Fast-forward to present day, when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson went to anti-free press Russia and an American reporter had the nerve to do her job and ask a question. This time, though, there was no respect for her from leaders in either country.
Instead, when the Russian foreign minister shouted at her and questioned her “manners,” Tillerson simply gave a smug smile and put on his glasses, which was actually pretty “astounding,” as Maddow pointed out.
Not only is Tillerson’s behavior in front of the Russians a break from the tradition of previous American leaders of both parties, but it also encourages countries like Russia to continue oppressing its own journalists.
America does it now, so why shouldn’t they continue doing so?...................
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MSNBC is just as guilty as the other news outlets for failing to do their job last year.
When Trump became a "serious" candidate, they all decided that Trump was good for business.
Nobody did any serious reporting on Trump's candidacy because they whored themselves out for the ad money.
I'm not saying that Rachel herself did this, but her bosses surely did. American political journalism will never be the same as the days of Woodward and Bernstein. IMHO they're just as complicit as the Facebook and the Russian hackers & spammers. They were all asleep at the wheel last year. For about 9 months of 2016 the American news media all acted like Fox News in their haste to present Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate.
It's kind of late to be asking for respect.
