{"id":8651,"date":"2026-06-09T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:26:01","slug":"kudos-to-kristen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/kudos-to-kristen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Kristen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Meet the Press<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristen Welker is the newest moderator of the longest running television program on-air, NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Meet the Press.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Welker follows a long line of knowledgeable journalists on the show, from Lawrence Spivak to Bill Monroe to Garrick Utley.\u00a0\u00a0Most famous was Tim Russert, who was the true voice of American political reporting in his seventeen years as the moderator.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf it\u2019s Sunday, it\u2019s<em>\u00a0Meet the Press<\/em>\u201d, and \u201cGo Bills!!\u201d were his watch words.\u00a0\u00a0He guided us through the Clinton impeachment, the 2000 Presidential election turmoil, and 9-11, with Russert\u2019s famous interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and the \u201cundisclosed location\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russert was in the midst of getting ready for the 2008 election and Barack Obama, the first Black man to have a possibility of winning, when he died of a heart attack at his desk. For those Americans, like me, who depend on<em>\u00a0Meet the Press<\/em>, the loss of Russert\u2019s expertise (2000 \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s Florida, Florida, Florida\u201d) was devastating. Retired network anchor Tom Brokaw took the chair for the remainder of that year, then reporter David Gregory took on the responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alternate Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Gregory didn\u2019t live up to the gravitas of Russert, nor did he have the personality.\u00a0\u00a0After six years, Gregory was removed and NBC\u2019s political director, Chuck Todd took the reins.\u00a0\u00a0Todd was brought into the\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em>\u00a0operation by Russert, and had the depth in political expertise for the job.\u00a0\u00a0He held the seat for nine years, in an era when news broadcasting went from four major voices, to many dozens streaming every form of ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd\u2019s style was different.\u00a0\u00a0He clearly believed that his viewers tuned in to hear his \u201cguests\u201d rather than himself, and he allowed them to speak.\u00a0\u00a0Todd wasn\u2019t often combative. He didn\u2019t always counter his \u201cguest\u2019s\u201d assertions.\u00a0\u00a0It felt like he knew that his audience was smart enough to figure out \u201cthe spin\u201d on their own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Todd\u2019s era on\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em>\u00a0marked a sea change in American political journalism.\u00a0\u00a0It occurred on January 22, 2017, the Sunday after Trump\u2019s inauguration.\u00a0\u00a0Todd pointed out the obvious to Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, that the Trump White House was grossly overestimating the inaugural crowd.\u00a0\u00a0Conway countered that Todd had his \u201cfacts\u201d, and that she had \u201dalternate facts\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Welker Era<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political\u00a0\u00a0interviews were no longer a matter of trying to \u201cspin\u201d the facts to your benefit.\u00a0\u00a0It now became a place where facts were created from \u201cwhole cloth\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Todd\u2019s intellectual approach often fell flat against the lies (alternate facts) of some of his \u201cguests\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The frustration seemed to wear on him, and he finally left in 2023, beginning the Kristen Welker era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welker, the former NBC Chief White House Correspondent and\u00a0<em>Sunday Today\u00a0<\/em>anchor, took a different approach.\u00a0\u00a0When a \u201cguest\u201d used an alternate fact, Welker wouldn\u2019t directly challenge them.\u00a0\u00a0But, she would preface her next question with a \u201cfact check\u201d, giving her audience a choice of fiction versus fact without a direct argument on each point.\u00a0\u00a0It was often frustrating to watch as she seemed to let guests go on with fictions.\u00a0\u00a0But it did keep\u00a0<em>Meet the Press<\/em>\u00a0from just becoming a \u201cshout fest\u201d between one side and the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is a dangerous era for \u201cfacts\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Right\u201d is co-opting independent journalism by buying the corporations that run them, then demanding editorial control.\u00a0\u00a0Bastions of independence:\u00a0\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0<em>CBS News<\/em>,<em>\u00a0CNN,<\/em>\u00a0and countless local stations are now directed to represent \u201calternate facts\u201d as real.\u00a0\u00a0And they\u2019re doing it, or losing their jobs.\u00a0\u00a0Some of the best political journalists of our time are on the streets.\u00a0\u00a0Scott Pelley at CBS is only the most recent example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wisconsin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of that is the background for Welker\u2019s interview of Donald Trump in Wisconsin last week.\u00a0\u00a0They met in a \u201cbarn\u201d (it was a trip to reach out to farmers).\u00a0\u00a0Old John Deere equipment was in the background as she sat across from the President of the United States.\u00a0\u00a0It was a difficult situation. Heavy rain pounded on the tin roof, making it difficult to hear.\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes what seemed like two people shouting at each other was simply both trying to hear each other. The microphones isolated their voices for the audience, but not for their own ears.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Welker did something that most journalists fail to do.\u00a0\u00a0She fact-checked the President in real time, asking him over and over again where the evidence was for his claims of election fraud.\u00a0\u00a0Whether Trump was unprepared for challenge, or simply to used to \u201csoftball interviews\u201d, he got angry.\u00a0\u00a0He lashed out at the media, and did what has become a MAGA trademark.\u00a0\u00a0He claimed that the corporations, like NBC, CBS and ABC were out to get him.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the Right has made it a point to buy and demand the media favor him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He called the media, and Welker, either corrupt or stupid.\u00a0\u00a0She countered that she was just a journalist, doing her job.\u00a0\u00a0That inflamed his anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mic Drop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the ultimate turn around in the interview came when Trump claimed that the Insurrectionists deserved compensation for their losses after January 6<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0\u00a0He said that they were beaten by thugs, some committed suicide, and were directed to attack the Capitol by the FBI.\u00a0\u00a0Welker corrected him.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cthugs\u201d weren\u2019t the Capitol Police, but the insurrectionists themselves.\u00a0\u00a0The suicides were among those same Police, devastated after hours of medieval-like battle on the steps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump isn\u2019t questioned, and he isn\u2019t corrected.\u00a0\u00a0He dramatically ended the interview, ripped off the microphone, stepped on it, then walked off the set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to Kristen.\u00a0\u00a0She refused to accept \u201calternate facts\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Welker held Trump, the President, to a standard of truth he isn\u2019t used to.\u00a0\u00a0She did put herself and NBC in the crosshairs of potential government retribution.\u00a0\u00a0But she held to a standard of journalism rapidly disappearing in our \u201cpost-truth\u201d world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m sure Chuck Todd is proud.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I\u2019m sure, somewhere in Buffalo\u2019s version of heaven, Tim Russert is too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Press Kristen Welker is the newest moderator of the longest running television program on-air, NBC\u2019s\u00a0Meet the Press.\u00a0\u00a0Welker follows a long line of knowledgeable journalists on the show, from Lawrence Spivak to Bill Monroe to Garrick Utley.\u00a0\u00a0Most famous was Tim Russert, who was the true voice of American political reporting in his seventeen years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/kudos-to-kristen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kudos to Kristen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Kristen Welker interviewed Donald Trump.  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