Cenk Uygur
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Scolds Young Journalists... Doesn't Understand Journalism.
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November 24, 2016
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16:09Now PlayingColumnist Michael Wolff thinks journalists should be stenographers for people in power. Ana Kasparian and Michael Shure, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Columnist Michael Wolff is being roundly mocked on Twitter for asserting that journalists covering Trump should be simply “stenographers” who relay what he says to the inquiring public and nothing more.
In an interview with the Digiday podcast published Tuesday evening, Wolff decried the move of some media outlets to resist “normalizing” Trump. This usually takes the form of writers providing context about how atypical and unprecedented so much of Trump’s campaign and transition has been. Wolff condemned that tack as “formally saying we are biased and want to be biased, we are judge and jury.”
“For the moment, the proper response is to stand back, neither approve and disapprove, and wait and see,” he said.
But Wolff’s comments that are drawing the biggest backlash Wednesday are the ones in which he insists that a “very significant piece of journalism” is to transcribe what people in power say, without providing context or analysis.”*
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