Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, says the media is ‘mostly liberal’ and have become ‘propagandists’ while covering President Trump.
The South African-born 60 Minutes correspondent said that most of the American press is biased against Trump because journalists are overwhelmingly Democrats.
‘You say the media is mostly liberal,’ Logan told Mike Ritland on his Mike Drop podcast.
‘I agree with you. It’s true. Why can I say that with certainty?
‘Well first of all I’ve been part of this for all my life, I’m 47 now and I’ve been a journalist since I was 17 and the media everywhere is mostly liberal not just in the U.S, but in this country 85 percent of journalists are registered Democrats so that’s just a fact.’
Lara Logan (seen left with podcast host Mike Ritland) criticized the news media for having what she says is a liberal bias and being overwhelmingly negative toward President Trump
LOGAN'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE MEDIA BEGIN AT 2:16:00
Logan said there isn’t much variety in viewpoints among mainstream news organizations.
‘Visually, anyone who’s ever been to Israel and been to the Wailing Wall has seen that the women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men,’ she said.
‘To me, that’s a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you’ve got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them.
‘That’s a problem for me. My experience has been that the more opinions you have, the more ways that you look at everything in life - everything in life is complicated, everything is gray, right?
Logan made a name for herself in television news for daring to report from dangerous war zones. She is seen above in Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq in November 2006
‘Nothing is black and white.’
Logan said that media coverage of the president has been overwhelmingly one-sided.
‘For example, the coverage on Trump, all the time, is negative,’ she said.
‘There’s no mitigating policy, or event or anything that has happened since he was elected that is out there in the media that you can read about, right?
‘Well, that tells you, that’s distortion of the way things go in real life.’
‘Although the media has always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense or at least the effort to be objective today.
‘We’ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there’s some merit to that.’
She said that
