POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)
NOMINEES:
1. Stahl to Hostage: Are You Sure Terrorists Were Starving You, Maybe Hamas Just Ran Out of Food?
Former hostage Keith Siegel: “The terrorists became very mean and very cruel and violent.”
Correspondent Lesley Stahl: “More so?”
Siegel: “Much more so. They were beating me and starving me.”
Stahl: “Do you think they starved you or they just didn’t have food?”
Siegel: “No I think they starved me and they, they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.”
— CBS’s 60 Minutes, March 30.
2. Woodward: “One of the Most Dangerous Times” Ever, Trump Wants to “Destroy the Economy”
“He [Donald Trump] and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, his sidekick are cutting the government….I think it’s one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced….His end goal – it looks like – he wants to destroy the economy and that is a very dangerous undertaking.”
— Associate Editor Bob Woodward on the Washington Post podcast, March 28.
3. Comedian Amber Ruffin: Trumpers Aren’t “Human Beings”
“You’re [Trump administration] kind of a bunch of murderers….They [the White House Correspondents Association] were like: ‘You need to be, you know, equal, and make sure that the, that you give it to both sides, and blah blah blah.’ I was like, ‘there’s no way I’m gonna be freaking doing that, dude.’…They want that false equivalency that the media does. They want that. It feels great. It makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way ‘cause they’re not.”
— Comedian Amber Ruffin before she was disinvited from performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as aired on The Daily Beast podcast, March 27.
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