Dan Rather calls on journalists to report what Trump 'really believes,' not what he saysWashington Times, Aug 6, 2019
Former “CBS Evening News†anchor Dan Rather on Monday advised fellow journalists to report on what President Trump “really believes†rather than what he says during prepared speeches and on Twitter.
“To my fellow members of the press, I suggest we refrain from quoting the president’s words from prepared speeches into headlines and tweets without context,†the veteran broadcaster tweeted to his 694,000 followers. “He sometimes says the right thing. The real questions are what he does and what he really believes.â€
“This moment in history reminds me a great deal of when I was covering the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King in the early 1960s,†Mr. Rather explained, according to a clip published by Newsbusters. “It was clearly definitively right and wrong. That was the truth of the situation. Then and now it’s the job of journalists not to try to hide or obscure but to speak the truth, and that’s where we are now. People say, ‘Well, I’m not sure President Trump is racist,’ but racist is as racist does.
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