As Twitchy told you yesterday, Sean Hannity’s apparent failure to disclose his shady relationship with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen may represent a conflict of interest. Hannity had Cohen on his Fox News show several times and also used his show as a platform to defend Cohen from critics and after the FBI raided his office.
The possibility that there’s a conflict of interest is certainly a valid concern, but it rings a little hollow coming from certain members of the mainstream media. Take MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, for example:
Going to find out what kind of org Fox is today. No serious news org would allow someone this conflicted to cover this story https://t.co/8KX1JLlzpx
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) April 17, 2018
So, Fox News is not a “serious news org”? As opposed to, say, MSNBC?
https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/986291947269746688
It really is something.
— Daniel Lee (@RealDanLee) April 17, 2018
Depending on the situation, Hannity tends to go back and forth with regards to whether or not he’s an actual journalist. But someone like George Stephanopoulos consistently represents himself as a journalist. So how is something like this not a conflict of interest?
Hi @chucktodd pic.twitter.com/Zi45Wn5Rbo
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2018
And there’s lots more where that came from:
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Anderson Cooper hosted a Presidential forum and was on the selectee board at the Clinton Foundation. Journalists covering Planned Parenthood accept awards from them. There are about 100 examples you can throw out.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2018
Why are journalists only up in arms over Hannity?
If the undoing of Sean Hannity leads to more ethical disclosures between media and the subjects they cover I'm 100% all for that. But they won't play by the rules they are demanding, and everyone knows it.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2018
But sure, the journos who belong to super friend listservs will lecture us all about ethics in media now.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2018
We’ll pass, thanks. Oh, and by the way:
Chuck Todd threw a party for Jennifer Palmieri at his house a year before the election.
— neontaster (@neontaster) April 17, 2018
So it’s not OK to be chummy with Trump’s lawyer, but it’s totally fine to report on and interview Hillary Clinton after throwing a party for her comms director? Funny, that.
Chuck Todd must be very disappointed at Chuck Todd. https://t.co/BJAzARWbdq
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2018
We sure are.
Thread. Cable news celebrity heel thyself. https://t.co/2GBfLiFteq
— The Last King of Long Island (@brodigan) April 17, 2018
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Update:
Lot of journos now shouting about media ethics were oddly silent when, say, WaPo's @Milbank had DNC secretly draft an anti-Trump column https://t.co/oZAN0oTG8C
or when @JohnJHarwood advised Podesta on GOP opponents and gloated about GOP demise https://t.co/x7uHO0fTWL— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) April 17, 2018
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