MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called for media outlets to not cover both sides of what he called “major issues” during a Wednesday forum.
“There are two words we need to remove from our media vocabulary right now and that is ‘both sides,’” Hasan told Semafor’s Ben Smith, a former New York Times reporter, in a video posted on Twitter and YouTube. “This fundamental crutch, this reliance on ‘both sides’ as a kind of lazy way of covering our political moment is deeply dangerous.”
You can watch my full @semafor conversation with @semaforben in Washington DC this morning, on media coverage of the GOP, my new book #WinEveryArgument, and Ben's interview with Tucker, right here:t.co/T0C2bvghik
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 7, 2022
“There are a bunch of major issues on which there are not both sides,” Hasan continued. “There are not both sides on climate change. There are not both sides on white supremacy. There are not both sides to democracy. Ben, there are not both sides on the Holocaust.”
dailycaller.com/2022/09/07/hasan-msnbc-both-sides-media/
h/t Coastie Patriot