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NightSide - Can Trump Tame The Media?

BOSTON (CBS) - Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump railed against the mainstream media for what he felt was biased coverage of the race. High-ranking staff from one of his favorite targets, The New York Times, met with the President-elect today in an effort to smooth out the relationship. Yesterday, the President-elect called a meeting with top journalists and executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, and others, and reportedly spent much of the time voraciously attacking them for their negative coverage of his campaign. Can the media cover a Trump presidency objectively? Has he already been treated unfairly during this early phase of the transition?

Originally broadcast November 22nd, 2016.

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