Media Matters CEO: There’s also shrinking newsrooms across the board. And now you have a full on assault and exploitation. So this is the moment where something, you know, one of the few professions is actually identified in the Constitution, cause it’s so pivotal to our society functioning is to have journalists out there doing this work. Um, you now have a a, a administration that is going to do everything possible not just to threaten, to bully, harass and intimidate, but basically to cow journalists into making a significant cost benefit analysis every day. Even if you have a publication that is not trying to get you not to step out of line. Um, you, you have to think about whether or not it’s worth the harms and the, and the harassment. And that’s, that’s gonna be in everybody’s head.
Joy Reid: Yeah, well, I can tell you, uh, we don’t plan to back down over here. And I know that Media Matters, it does not plan to back down either. If they’re doing the bad things, we’re gonna say they’re doing the bad things. And that’s just the way it is. That’s the job we signed up for. And we know that you are a leader in doing the same.
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The Trump administration is not going to do everything possible to threaten, bully, harass, intimidate, and cow… journalists. How many times have you seen Joy Reid talk about the bad things Joe Biden and Democrats did and do?!! I have never seen it because Joy Reid is a Democrat propagandist. The ReidOut is not journalism. It’s just Democrats and ex-Republicans sitting around trashing Trump and Republicans while defending Democrats.