CBS’s Dickerson: Trump Didn’t Ruin the Press’s Reputation, We Did that Ourselves

CBS’s John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn’t Ruin the Press’s Reputation, We Did That Ourselves (Mediaite)

CBS’s Face the Nation host John Dickerson was critical of President Donald Trump‘s haranguing of the press during a Thursday press conference, but told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt that the press’s credibility took a hit long before Trump.

Hewitt asked Dickerson Friday about Trump’s message to reporters that “the public doesn’t believe you people anymore.” Dickerson countered that if Trump wanted to lecture the press on believability, it would help if he stopped saying things to the public that were verifiably untrue.

“But that one comment, ‘they don’t trust you anymore,’ is a summation of where we are in America,” Hewitt argued. “Because I really do think Manhattan-Beltway elites have lost the country. They’ve lost it. There’s just no confidence…”