Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast
When Secretary Noem went on CNN after the Minneapolis deaths and argued against what the video plainly showed, it crystallized the administration's broader project: erasing the concept of verifiable information. That's the most corrosive threat to democracy, and news organizations that don't fight it are complicit.
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Tim Miller steers directly into the CBS discussion, and Dickerson — careful throughout to note he no longer works there and dislikes public kibitzing about current colleagues — nevertheless speaks with clarity about what the lawsuit settlement represented. The administration's project, he argues, is to make verifiable information entirely up for grabs — 'my narrative is my narrative and everybody else's is treason.' Secretary Noem's CNN appearance after the Minneapolis deaths, where she argued against what the video plainly showed, is the sharpest example of this project in action. Against that backdrop, news organizations are supposed to 'fight like hell.' When instead they pay off a meritless lawsuit — essentially keeping the president's interests in mind — they undermine the entire trust relationship with the public. You cannot tell viewers 'we're asking these questions on your behalf' after you've demonstrated you'll pay the subject to go away. The stakes, Dickerson emphasizes, are not abstract: the administration is rewriting events including January 6th, and a supine press is complicit. [1] — John Dickerson "The moment CBS settled Trump's frivolous '60 Minutes' lawsuit, it signaled it was keeping the president's interests in mind — which is inco…" 50:40
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