Very stark difference between Jake Tapper and George Stephanopoulos’s reporting and that of Andrea Mitchell. Stephanopoulos/Tapper reported the fallout from the videos, namely, that it has resulted in the canning of NPR’s two chieftains and more momentum behind the push to defund it. Mitchell tried to discredit the source and defend NPR’s work. One comes across as journalism, the other pure advocacy. Watch the videos and see if you can tell the difference:
“The culture war with new and old media, an undercover upstart has dealt a major blow to the establishment.”
“… we know the controversy over how some of these stings are done, especially by this man O’Keefe … nobody is suggesting that their [NPR’s] journalism has been at all biased.”
I preferred the straight deliver of Stephanopoulos and news from Jake Tapper’s report. Kudos for an objective job.
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