Lester Holt (LesterHoltNBC) talks election, public trust during L.A. Press Freedom Week
"I think one of the challenges we're facing right now is to what extent we defend ourselves as journalists because it's not in our nature," Holt questioned during the panel."At what point do you say, 'No, that's not the case' and take off the gloves?"L.A. Timesanchor Lester Holt sat down with a panel of journalists to talk politics, diversity, Twitter and public trust on Wednesday night.
"I remind people that television news or news in general isn't supposed to make you happy all the time — sometimes it's going to make you mad because we're going to report something that is going to change your worldview or challenge your worldview or suggest that maybe things aren't quite as you thought they were," Holt said on the panel.
The five journalists spent much of the conversation focusing on politics, with Haines noting how many newsrooms have brought in more people of color since the 2016 election, when they realized "we certainly aren't living in a post-racial environment, so that means to cover politics in America in this moment is to be fluent in issues of race.
"It's very dangerous if reporting gets defined as something that gets done on the coasts, something that gets done in big cities by people who went to good schools," he said. "Those people may be looking more diverse but if we all went to the same schools and have the same social circles and the same cosmopolitan sensibilities, we're going to be missing out on a lot of what is the richness and complexity of America.
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