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Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald on Saturday said journalists needed to grow a backbone to deal with President-elect Donald Trump.
MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart asked Eichenwald how the media should deal with Trumps mixed messaging in regards to his charity.
The first thing we need to do is face reality, Eichenwald replied. If Eric Trump is so upset, write a check. Weve got to stop acting like everything that happens to this guy when they complain about how difficult it is, if they want to give to charity, give to charity. They can write the money themselves, they dont need to raise it from us.
Secondly, and this is the most important, we have a president-elect who has been treated completely differently from anybody else, he continued. The press has unfortunately gotten into this thing where theyre afraid of propaganda outlets like Fox News coming in and calling them biased. There is no bias here. We have got to grow a backbone. We have got to demand press conferences. We have got to stop covering his tweets like theyre news.
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