The Media Cautiously Covers America's President

About this episode

Bob Herbert and Eric Alterman discuss the challenges faced by the media in covering the president's controversial actions.

Bob and Eric Alterman, Brooklyn College distinguished professor consider the difficulties facing mainstream press and other media outlets to inform the American people of the president's and his administration’s questionable-sometimes illegal, decisions, their disregard of the truth and the rule of law to the American people and how vital this information is to us all.

People in this episode

Host: Bob Herbert

Guest: Eric Alterman

Topics covered

• media coverage
• presidential decisions
• truth and law
• mainstream press
• American public

Keywords

• media
• president
• press
• truth
• law
• American people
• administration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Brooklyn College

Places: America