Journalists have a responsibility to act as an adversarial force to keep dishonest narcissists in positions of power honest.

“it's still the case that there is a need for that adversarial conduct on the journalistic front if part of the rule of Journalism is to keep dishonest narcissists as as honest as possible”

Bob Woodward serves as a necessary counterbalance and check against government overreach.

“He's not an instrument of the government. He's a he's a counterbalance. He's a check against their overreach. He's a he's a journalist.”

She believes it is a journalist's duty to investigate and report on medical phenomena and social epidemics regardless of public pressure or potential backlash.

“it is a journalist's job to look into medical you know phenomena including epidemics and so forth and investigate them and and rely on the medical judgment of experts and that is precisely what i have done”

Journalists have a moral obligation to hold those in power accountable regardless of their political affiliation or party.

“I decided to become a journalist, not a politician. I'm not a party operative. I could have been that. I'm not a spokesperson for a politician. I could have been that, too. As you could. I decided to become a journalist. And for me, that entails obligations.”

Journalism is currently broken because the editorial and management layers of media organizations prevent investigative journalists from pursuing stories that challenge powerful institutions.

“I think that the disk is much more located in the editorial layer rather than in the actual beat reporter layer. One possibility, David, is is that the editorial layer is taking into account different sorts of decisions.”

Journalists should aspire to be as objective as possible, acknowledging that while pure neutrality is impossible, striving for it is better than using journalism as a vehicle for political agendas.

“We're never going to rid ourselves of that. But you can try. It's aspirational to be as objective as possible with the understanding you're never going to be fully as objective.”

Tim Dillon argues that journalists should practice basic fact-checking to ensure accuracy rather than publishing false information.

“This is like worse than shattered glass that movie we're like yeah in christensen this is like uh i just don't know why you just just print the real [ __ ] go yeah bought a house for two and a half million bucks don't why wouldn't they call you why would they not why would they lie”

The speaker argues that journalists should focus on evidence-based criticism rather than simply demanding proof from political figures.

“You're right, but the where's your proof is not the right pushback for a journalist. Okay? Here's the pushback. One, if you want to talk about proof that we have of things being done wrong in an election, let's look at you, sir.”

Don Lemon's actions were unprofessional because he abandoned journalistic detachment to become an active participant in a disruptive protest.

“If you don't set the tone now to make it a precedent that you cannot do this, you don't think other journalists are going to look at this and say, "I'm going to go into a church. I'm going to go into a Catholic church. I'm going to go into this." Then guess what? You know what's even worse? Watch th”

Journalists should prioritize objective, fact-based reporting over creating deceptive narratives that mislead the public.

“You have to have an advanced degree. Major in journalism, then maybe get your advanced degree in creative writing, investigative studies, I don't know. But to write that garbage, they were holding hands walking down Time Square thinking that they may get a halfp price ticket at the discount booth fo”

Mainstream media outlets act as propaganda arms for the intelligence community, intentionally suppressing negative investigations into the CIA to protect their own interests.

“as long as they do not do any investigation of the CIA and Report anything negative about the CIA the CIA will leave them alone and they'll actually feed them stories from Anonymous sources feed them story so they'll be the first ones to break it”

Benny Johnson argues that Jake Tapper was part of an orchestrated media cover-up concerning Joe Biden's health.

“So Jake Tapper is part of the cover-up period. I'm glad that he's making money after the fact good for you. You were able to like throw Joe Biden in the trash bin when it was convenient. Now you're making piles of cash for doing the exact same thing that we've all been DOING FOR FOUR YEARS.”

Mainstream newsrooms have effectively institutionalized a form of censorship through disinformation departments that focus on policing political narratives rather than reporting truth.

“The disinformation people within all of these newsrooms, there's ones in NBC, there's, first of all, they kind of became stars. In some cases, like the NBC disinformation guy became a sort of a star in his own right. They see themselves as almost another editor-in-chief within the newsroom.”

The failure of major media outlets to report on the Twitter files and the collusion between government and intelligence agencies is a massive failure of journalistic duty.

“The BBC the times even the telegraph the GU I mean the guardian obviously haven't covered it they and this isn't to say by the way that they don't think Twitter is important because they cover Elon musk's polls every day yeah but they won't tell us anything about that”

She contends that major media organizations, like the BBC, participated in a cross-platform censorship network designed to suppress dissenting voices.

“We know that the BBC helm the trusted news initiative. This was set up in September 2019. And what was that? That was essentially a cross-platform censorship network, right? Again, going after any dissenting voices in real time, okay?”