Former Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward reportedly criticized the media’s handling of the infamous Steele Dossier. Syndicated radio host Buck Sexton reacted to Woodward’s comments during an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday. Woodward’s comments were captured by Jeff Gerth, Columbia Journalism Review.
“Bob Woodward, of The Post, told me that news coverage of the Russia inquiry ‘wasn’t handled well’ and that he thought viewers and readers have been cheated,” Gerth wrote. “He urged newsrooms to walk down the road of introspection.”
“He (Woodward) is talking about a journalism that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for quite some time and some would argue if it ever did,” said Sexton. “This was the mainstream media’s kamikaze mission, they were doing everything possible to destroy Donald Trump and even places like CNN made it clear, they openly would say that reporting the truth, Washington Post too, meant being anti-Trump.”
Sexton said he was encouraged to hear Woodward be critical of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Steele Dossier but added it would have been nice to hear Woodward come out about the subject sooner.
“I think what you’re seeing is that people who have been in journalism for a long time now are turning around and looking at the wreckage of their former profession and understanding that they burned it all down to get Trump,” Sexton said.
“They (journalists) knew what they were doing, I’m sorry that Bob Woodward is just figuring this out now,” he added.
