Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasted the media for opinionated reporting during a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business Network.
Sanders, who debuted as a Fox News contributor earlier this month, was on the show to discuss a litany of examples involving Trump and his allies’ relationship with the media.
She and anchor David Asman discussed how the New York Times botched a story about Justice Brett Kavanaugh, publishing another allegation of sexual misconduct against him but failing to mention the alleged victim has no recollection of the incident.
Asman continued, “I just wonder, the milestone really seemed to be with this New York Times story on Kavanaugh where the key feature of that story, the fact that the woman doesn’t remember it happening.”
“There is no victim. You can’t have a crime without a victim,” Sanders exclaimed, cutting off the anchor.
“How does all this end up? The president has been talking about the New York Times, not talking about the death of the New York Times, but talking about maybe it will be reborn because of this. Do you agree?” Asman asked.
Sanders responded, “I think all of media needs to take a good hard look at how they put the news out. It’s gotten so much where there’s no process, there’s no accountability, no check and balance. It’s not just the New York Times. Politico, CNN, they all, within the last week, have had these major gaffes in their coverage.”
Asman lamented that, “They still have their readers,” but wondered if people could “rely on it for news stories” moving forward.
“I hope so. I think that we have to start taking so much of the opinion out of the news,” she replied. “It’s a good news story if you can read it and you have no idea which side the journalist is on and it’s very hard to find that. There’s a big difference between commentators and news, and we have blended those so that there is no difference anymore. We’ve got to go back where those are separate.”
