CNN’s Jake Tapper has been extremely outspoken on Twitter ever since the Harvey Weinstein stories were made public, and has expressed staunch support for the women who have come out and told their stories of harassment.
While Tapper praised the New York Times and The New Yorker for their reporting, he also called for “media accountability” during a long thread of tweets past weekend, and criticized media organizations (though not by name) who he felt have covered for Weinstein over the years and made it easier for him and other high-profile harassers to continue their activities.
Tapper called on fellow journalists, specifically media reporters, to be more aggressive in their reporting on these people, “or nothing will change.”
While he didn’t name them specifically in this particular thread of tweets, Tapper feels that NBC has been complicit in this regard.
One hopes Tapper demands this of his own news organization as well.
8/ from news organizations tasked with telling us the truth, except when discussing their own internal corrupt behaviors. Demand better. ###
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
7/ If media reporters don’t push from the outside and powerful people from the inside, nothing will change. This week we all saw lies…
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
6/ the very same incentives that hampered @Isikoff‘s Bill Clinton investigations in the 90s hampered @kimmasters on Amazon scandal.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
5/ and unless the star reporters and editors and EPs or a board of directors demands it, it will be swept under the rug. No question.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
4/ There is no functioning body that oversees journalism that can demand an accounting for how this happened. It’s up to each organization
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
3/…plus killing excellent and solid journalism that would have exposed his crimes earlier thus stopping his victimizing new women
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
2/ … we’ve also seen direct/indirect examples of how members of the media helped cover up his alleged crimes. Publishing dirt on victims..
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017
A word on media accountability. The world has seen not only the truth finally come out about Harvey Weinstein thanks to NYT & New Yorker 1/
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 14, 2017