‘MTP’ Panelists Take Veiled Shots at Conservative Media, FNC for Decline in American Civility

Curtis Houck | October 3, 2016
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

On the same Sunday morning that NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources duking it out over Trump and the news media, a pair of panelists on NBC’s Meet the Press took veiled shots at the Fox News Channel (FNC) and conservative media figures like Glenn Beck for the decline in American political civility and decorum because they’ve been undermining the federal government.

After highlighting the lack of traditionally right-leaning newspapers endorsing Donald Trump, Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter ruled that “not just in elites in media, but in elites in having everything” have been losing sway over the rest of the country. 

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