Mike Pesca

Look, I could there's a there's another part of me that's could easily be celebrating this moment.

Once again, corporate owned corporate owned media is going to let you down.

I did not think this was the case, but this is now the case in the Trump era, where these parent companies do not care whether their journalistic institutions have credibility with the wide swath of Americans or not, that they only want to cater to one side politically.

And they want to be a part of essentially influencing the country rather than reflecting and reporting on the country.

So yeah, there's a part of me that would love to sit here and gloat and just say, look, this is yet another reason you're going to have some skepticism of this corporate-owned media structure that we've seen.

I will be honest with you.

I'm skeptical.

I'm mostly skeptical.

impressed with Washington Post reporting.

I'm very skeptical of its editorial page.

It feels like it is not an honest editorial page, that it is essentially manipulated with a point of view that somebody wants to appease an owner or appease somebody.

You now are going to have

skepticism about what CBS News does.

I already know that we've already seen Disney do what it did with the George Stephanopoulos situation calling into question their support of ABC News.

We've seen what Comcast did with MSNBC, trying to spin it out and get rid of it and separating it out from NBC.

You can look at that through the prism of they're just looking to appease and placate the current administration.

So

We are in a situation where all of these stories have added to the public's distrust.

And it's frustrating to me because many people look at me and still see me as a, quote, member of so-called mainstream media.

I promise you, I...