Chris Hayes, unique among journalists this week
by digby
His broadcast has been great all week taking a serious, sober, unemotional approach to reporting on this story. I doubt it's been easy. The cable news reporters in general have been over-stimulated and nearly hysterical at times and there is no doubt in my mind that they have helped to unleash what was already a barely restrained bigotry toward Muslims that could have some severe repercussions over the next year or so.
Hayes is an exception, giving us common sense analysis and information and unafraid of telling the whole story without pulling punches. He has not been breathlessly passing on rumors or excitedly fulminating about jihadis coming to kill us all in our beds. These events are frightening enough, we don't need the news media treating it like a horror movie or stoking it with warporn.
What Hayes has been doing is the role the news anchors used to play when scary things happened in this world. They did not run around like Chicken-little demanding that the government "do something, anything" to keep us safe. They were professionals to whom we turned for calm, clear-headed reporting and analysis. That's rare today. Very rare.
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