‘More Policy’ and ‘Less Polls’: Five Anchors Reflect on How They’d Cover the Election Differently

.@BretBaier: “We didn’t see all the people who said, ‘Neither side is working, kick the table over and start over, I’m for change.'” pic.twitter.com/u5PeUmmDJy

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 12, 2017

The Hollywood Reporter hosted a hard-hitting anchor roundtable and was it ever illuminating.

In attendance were Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos, Bret Baier, and Gayle King. Yeah, you read that right: NBC, CNN, ABC, Fox, and CBS were all represented.

Of course, they got to chatting about the election that all five of them covered for their very different networks. Tapper immediately said he thinks coverage should have been more policy-focused and he has plans to implement that in the 2018 and 2020 elections.

Baier pointed out that they’d all focused too much on polls.

When asked the biggest challenge faced by journalism at this time, Stephanopoulos mused, “The fact that so few people believe us. That they’re looking for narratives that reinforce their beliefs rather than challenge them.”

Tapper chimed in that there “are news sources that are just out-and-out lies coming from Europe, coming from other parts of the world,” and King cut in to say that it’s even coming from people’s basements.

Watch a snippet of the roundtable above, via THR.

[image via screengrab]

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