Former NBC anchor Brian Williams blasted fellow reporters for failing to accurately cover the ‘combative’ Biden
Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams called out his fellow reporters in a statement to The Washington Post on Monday for failing to find the right words to describe a “visibly troubled” President Biden during his tenure.
Williams told the Washington Post that the journalistic language used in today’s media is “lazy, numbing and normalizing in times of urgency and necessity.”
The Post published the report with quotes from ten journalists who spoke about how the press should cover the second term of President-elect Donald Trump.
“It’s actually insulting and a huge disservice to those watching and listening – because it doesn’t match what they’ve just seen or heard themselves. It’s been devastating to watch so many working journalists trying to generate words to accurately describe a visibly problematic situation and weakened president, seemingly unable to finish a sentence or a thought in his disastrous and final debate,” Williams said.
Brian Williams called out fellow journalists in a statement to the Washington Post. (Reuters)
“Say it with me: It may be the ultimate irony that the Democratic Party’s 2024 electoral collapse was caused in large part by the man who ran to save the country and democracy — the same man who then tried to stay too long on the Well, I said it, please, in microphone,” he said.
The Post also spoke to other journalists, such as former CNN host Don Lemon, which encouraged the press to focus on what Trump does rather than what he says.
“The media also needs to cover less of what Trump says and more of what he does. Too often reporters let Trump’s latest cruel or bigoted comment rule the news cycle. Too rarely do they devote the front page to the man’s radical actions,” Lemon said.
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Former CNN host Don Lemon. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
During the performance on late-night television after the election, Williams said the Democratic Party needed to be “rebuilt.”
The former host said Democrats pushed “offensive” campaign language.
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“Cover this second Trump administration without fear or favor,” Jill Abramson, a former New York Times executive editor, told the Washington Post.
Abramson said Elon Musk would be better for the press, adding, “When politics works and the new administration deserves credit, you do these stories.”
