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    Michael Hiltzik: Kristen Welker's 'Meet the Press' Trump interview was a gross dereliction of journalistic duty

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Sep 19, 2023 6 minutes
    Former President Trump with Kristen Welker in an interview that aired on“ Meet the Press.” The journalist took over as moderator of the NBC show on Sunday.

    When Chuck Todd announced in June that he would be retiring as host of "Meet the Press," not a few people who take politics seriously breathed a sigh of relief: No more of Todd's insight-free, planed-down, both-sides-do-it horse race approach to news.

    The NBC News publicity machine immediately built up Todd's successor, Kristen Welker, as a tough, whip-smart journalist, "dogged" and a master of "sharp questioning of lawmakers."

    That whole PR edifice came crashing down Sunday, when Welker got steamrollered by Donald Trump on national television.

    Welker's interview with the former president, pitched as her inaugural coming-out party as the show's new moderator, served as yet another demonstration of the impossibility — and irresponsibility — of treating Trump as a normal political figure.

    Despite ample evidence that dealing with Trump on his own level — through four years of the Trump presidency and as recently as May, when at a misbegotten town hall — was a no-win situation, NBC News went ahead and subjected its

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