Karl Rove to NYT: Now Is the Moment When Journalists Have a Special Responsibility To Be Accurate

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ROVE: “It’s not accurate. So, the president said, “Don’t wait for us.” Grab everything you can locally. Direct purchase, whatever you can get. Get what you can. Now, Peter Baker, who is a journalist with “The New York Times” at least had that part of it. He sent out Tweets saying that the president tell the governor not to wait for federal government. To look for needed medical equipment on their own. But he didn’t go on to say with the president said next, which is, you may be able to get it direct, but we will be backing you up. But go read what you can locally. So, first you got the editorial board member of the times who is totally distorting it. And then you have a respected journalist who is being accurate, but not complete. He should have gone on and put the entire context in there. Even then, what is the editorial board tweet out? Her own personal views on this. Where is the substance that ought to be there in the time of crisis that we are in? Now is the moment when journalists have a special responsibility to be accurate and full and complete.”