George Clooney: ‘It’s a Scary Time to Be a News Person’

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CLOONEY: "I can make an argument that we‘re not. I can make an argument that we‘ve had much worse times in our history. You know, 1968, every city in the United States was burning and there was — National Guard was surrounding the White House and the Capitol, and we'd lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and Tet offensive. But it‘s a frustrating time, and I think a scary time for many people. It‘s a scary time to be a news person, to be in your profession. You‘ve been picked out, you know, '60 Minutes' has been picked out. Most news organizations are under fire. That usually happens with demagogues in a way. It usually is a way of — the first places you attack are the news, because that‘s how we inform ourselves."