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Veteran journalist Soledad O’Brien lambasted the media for its protection of President Donald Trump, saying it has given in to “entry journalism.”
The American media’s protection of President Donald Trump has been attacked by critics who’ve felt it’s too conciliatory to Trump, and Soledad O’Brien totally agrees. The veteran journalist voiced her perspective in a dialog with Selection columnist Brett Lang throughout a dialogue of The Good Neighbor, a documentary movie on which she serves as govt producer, on the Sundance Movie Pageant in Park Metropolis, Utah.
“The media has accomplished a very piss poor job, to be trustworthy,” O’Brien mentioned to Lang about its protection of Trump. “In a pair other ways. Framing each dialogue as ‘this vs this’ is an actual mistake. There may be [a] lot of entry journalism that has simply been distressing and dismaying to observe. There are journalists I respect, however they need entry. There’s a variety of nations the place journalists don’t get entry to their political management, and you may really do job reporting once you’re not essentially being invited to the dinner or having a front-row seat. On this nation we’re all about getting entry, so we see a variety of journalists say we have to get in.” O’Brien additionally partially blamed the media panorama for “misinformation and disinformation,” pointing to current headlines regarding Trump’s commentary on tariffs.
“The dialog round tariffs is hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic,” the previous CNN host mentioned. “Individuals do not know what a tariff means and what the affect will likely be. That may be a failure of journalism if folks don’t perceive the fundamentals. I’m hopeful we’ll do a greater job in serving to folks perceive the problems higher as a substitute of simply pushing entry to issues. I’m not optimistic about it.”
O’Brien additionally spoke about her involvement in producing The Good Neighbor, which examines Florida’s controversial “stand your floor” legal guidelines. The documentary, directed by Geeta Gandbhir, focuses on the homicide of Ajike Owens, a younger Black mom of 4 who was shot by her white neighbor Susan Lorincz. “While you are available after a tragedy you might be coping with individuals who have been deeply impacted by such tragedy,” Gandbhir mentioned of the movie. “They aren’t who they have been. They’re modified. That was so necessary [to see them before]. We needed to steer with the humanity of the neighborhood.