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🗓️ 27 September 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | So last week, I was in Austin at the Texas Tribune Festival. |
0:04.3 | It's an annual event that gathers hundreds of speakers and thousands of citizens to discuss the big issues of the day, from climate change to politics. |
0:13.5 | I moderated a couple of sessions. |
0:16.0 | One was with two great journalists from two very different places with two very different briefs. |
0:22.8 | One was Amy Chozik, a national political reporter for the New York Times, and the other was |
0:27.8 | Evan Smith, the co-founder and CEO of the Texas Tribune. |
0:32.6 | The question at issue turned on President Trump's continuous attacks on the press and on truth, on basic facts. |
0:41.5 | Does it affect the way you practice journalism? If so, how? Evan Smith kicked it off. |
0:48.7 | Well, it hasn't, it hasn't. And to the degree that it's changed, I don't know that it's changed |
0:52.5 | in the way the people who seek to discredit or disown us wanted it to change. |
0:57.0 | They wanted us to stop doing our jobs. All they've done has gotten us to do our jobs more aggressively, right? |
1:02.0 | So it's changed in that respect. I think that if you are told by the President or by anybody else in public life that you're an enemy of the people and that your work is not meaningful or credible. |
1:16.0 | And you believe in the work that you do, as we in journalism believe in public service journalism and accountability, as someone I admire, and I believe Amy admi, the editor of the Washington Post, |
1:21.6 | Marty Barron said, you don't go to war, you go to work. |
1:24.4 | And I think we in the press have gone to work. |
1:26.4 | And I think that has been a change in that it's forced us to step up our game step up your game how well I |
1:32.4 | just think you button up your processes you make sure that everything you do is |
1:35.8 | right and is fair and is thorough and is accurate now I'd argue that everything |
1:39.4 | we always have done has been fair and thorough and accurate the difference is that |
1:43.5 | the default setting at one point used to be that we were not |
1:46.0 | distrusted and the default setting now is that we're distrusted. |
1:50.0 | And I think if you understand your enemy, in quotes, because no one is our enemy really, but |
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