Chris Wallace, other veteran journalists talk fairness, trust and today’s media challenges at Poynter event in D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – They are some of the most basic – yet existential – questions in the journalism industry: How to tell the truth and how to get people to listen and trust you. Three accomplished journalists who cover the nation’s most powerful figures weighed in on those questions at a Poynter Institute event this week.
“When I started at The Boston Globe, 56 years ago, being fair, getting your facts right, playing it straight, being even-handed, wasn’t a subject of praise — it was what kept you from getting fired,” said award-winning broadcast journalist Chris Wallace, a legendary anchor who spent 18 years at Fox News and was most recently at CNN, which he left in November.
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