Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” wrote in The Atlantic Monday that conservative media figures, namely Roger Ailes, were responsible for cultivating a strategic distrust of the media as part of “a nearly 50-year campaign of vilification” and personally profiting “by exploiting the fears of older white people.”
“I’m not advocating for a more activist press in the political sense, but for a more aggressive one,” Todd wrote, urging fellow journalists to “not [allow] ourselves to be spun” as “biased.”