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Todd would eventually bring on New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet and Washington Post editor Marty Baron to opine about fake news. In a conversation about the media’s need to fact-check in the Trump-era, Baquet seemed to admit his paper wasn’t interested in fact-checking presidents until Trump came along:
I mean, Marty has a very extensive fact check operation as do we. And those things didn't exist three or four years ago and they're an acknowledgment that one of the jobs of the news media is to sort through all of the BS, if I can say that.
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Unwilling to admit the media have been actively campaigning against President Trump since before he was elected, Todd seemed to demand that they start a campaign to “market the truth.” His plan was to go around the country and lecture people into believing the media.
But in the middle of those remarks, he seemed to make a critical slip up by angrily declaring: “by the way, if I utter a fact on TV on purpose I get fired.” Obviously, he meant if he uttered a lie purposely he would get fired. But that was equally laughable since Lyin' Brian Williams and Joy ‘a time traveler edited my blog’ Reid were still his colleagues at NBC/MSNBC.