Perry Bacon Jr.
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304 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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If we have a liberal pundit and a conservative pundit, then we're getting the truth is somewhere in between.
It's total nonsense, particularly in an era where whatever you think, again, you might disagree with Barack Obama and Joe Biden on policy, but we have all these fact checks at these news organizations still, and the fact checkers have to like, you know, have spent all this time, Donald Trump lied so much more than Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
So you can't, news is supposed to be of where you learn the truth, not where you learn,
different perspectives, whatever they are.
The news business is supposed to promote the idea of accuracy where you learn what's actually going on.
So when you bring on
guests who are misleading, dissembling, lying.
You're like taking away from the value of news.
Like journalism has to be an institution beyond putting people on TV in power and beyond putting on a Democrat and a Republican, or at least what I think, or at least the journalism I chose to get into was about holding people to account.
being honest, doing investigations.
But it was not about we put a Republican Democrat on and they talk and we say viewer decide.
That's not journalism.
That's a tricky one because of the... Yes, but I agree with you that there's... You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm going to... Just because we've talked about two hosts and so that's... But I get the point you're making.
And look, I mean, the fact that you... I mean, this is tricky because...
I respect Simone and Abby, and they're sort of in the roles that were previously occupied by... But there's also Fox News.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So anyway, but all I meant was, like, we're in a place where... And I think it's... I just want to say, a lot of the Black journalists who I think are fantastic are maybe, you know, are having to be in different places now.
I want to say Jonathan Capehart, Gene Robinson, Joy Reid, Don Lemon.
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