One caller asked me stern questions about Russia’s obsession on C-SPAN. Washington Journal On Tuesday USA TodayJarrell Dillard, a Bloomberg reporter and Joey Garrison, a White House correspondent insist that they hold politicians accountable and do not have biases. That’s not exactly what we see on a regular basis from their outlets.
The fire was started by “Arnold” from Virginia.
ARNOLD : These pretty much go towards the media. It’s great that you have two men who work in the media. So, for the past four years, the previous four years of the previous president, all I heard about was Russian collusion, Russian collusion, Russian collusion. Fraudulent elections, fraudulent elections. This was something that the American people didn’t forget and it is all they heard. So, my first question for you is, which I will follow with a comment. What happened to the Russian collusion. This was the headline on your newspaper’s first page for the USA Times [sic]Bloomberg. The story was also featured in national headlines. Was there any Russian collusion?
The second question I have, the second statement I wanna have is, with the media today, do you guys recognize why people don’t trust you, or trust the media? You guys’ inconsistencies when it comes to President Trump and President Biden, as well as all the other catastrophic events that are happening today.
Garrison claimed that nothing had really taken place with Russia. This didn’t really counter the caller. After three years of obsessing over Russian collusion, they moved to impeach Trump for Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian buck-raking.
GARRISON: Addressing his first question, regarding what happened to Russia, I’m not sure anything happened to it. Mueller led a lengthy investigation. There weren’t eventually any charges pressed for it. Eventually, shortly after that, six months maybe, there started to be an impeachment process on the Ukraine call that President Trump had at the time. Although I believe it, I don’t know what you mean when you say that. We moved on with other projects.
In terms of the reputation of the press, all I can do is speak for myself, I try to hold every elected official accountable. I wasn’t a White House reporter during the Trump years, so I don’t have any first-hand experience on that. But I can tell you for all my colleagues and myself included, we don’t try to have any difference in terms of our coverage when it comes to different politicians.
Some might say this reporter could do better at holding Biden accountable than stories like this.
Garrison’s sentiment was echoed by Dillard. “I would also say the exact same thing. Try to hold everyone responsible. Also, I was not a reporter at either the White House nor on the Hill during that time. In my work I strive to be impartial and hold all officials accountable. Dillard would be told again that we believe he is better at impartial reporting than these stories.
It was nice to see reporters expressing their desire to remain impartial. It’s just that we don’t always see enough of this in finished products.
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