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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Brian Stelter thinks the news has a reliability problem

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Respecting the Audience

The cynicism, the nihilism really of people like Tucker and Hannity and Ingram, I think they're not journalists. That's too generous. They're literally just performers. And that is a really important distinction. Some of them also very much do want to advance Republican policy positions and principles. But that idea of filling out hostage by the audience and needing to sit was all about respecting the viewers. It's a great euphemism because by respecting the viewers, they were showing disrespect.

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