At the Radio Television Digital News Foundation’s “2018 First Amendment Awards” held Thursday night, at DC’s Marriott Marquis hotel, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd was presented with the group’s First Amendment Award.
Todd asserted the media are “not the opposition,” insisting “we’re simply a voice of truth.” He fretted “there’s plenty of people that motivated to undermine us for their own gain.”
NBC’s Chuck Todd at the March 8 dinner:
“One thing we’re not is the opposition. We’ve never tried to be part of the political debate, but people want to drag us into it. We shouldn’t take the bait. We’re simply a voice of truth. There’s no balance, there’s just fairness and truth. And a true voice and the truth is what we all need to be hearing right now. A voice that no matter how many disparaging tweets or calls of fake news, we can’t let it be silenced....
“There’s plenty of people trying to undermine what we do for a living. There’s plenty of people that motivated to undermine us for their own gain – political, financial, or whatever. Just keep that in mind. We just need to be fair, credible, honest, and most importantly, transparent. Because I believe in the 21st century, transparency is the new objectivity.”
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