CBS News’ Lara Logan on U.S. Media: ‘We’ve Become Political Activists’

‘Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective, today’

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LOGAN: “So, for example, you know, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative. There is nothing — there's nothing, no mitigating policy or event or anything that has happened since he was elected that is out there in the media that you can read about. Well, that tells you that distortion of the way things go in real life. Because although the media has always been, historically always been left leaning, we've abandoned our pretense or at least the effort to be objective today. The former executive editor of The New York Times has a book coming out, Jill Abramson, and she says we would do, I don't know, dozens of stories about Trump every single day and every single one of them was negative. She said we have become the anti-Trump paper of record. Well, that's not our job. That's a political position. That means we've become political activists in a sense, and some could argue propagandists, right? And there's some merit to that."

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