Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos says in the case of Donald Trump, journalists don’t get to play the impartial card.
“It doesn’t matter who you are—a journalist, a politician or a voter—we’ll all be judged by how we responded to Donald Trump,” he writes in Time. “Like it or not, this election is a plebiscite on the most divisive, polarizing and disrupting figure in American politics in decades. And neutrality is not an option.”
Ramos, who was one of the first journalists to tangle with Trump—being ushered out of a Trump news conference and told by the candidate to “go back to Univision,” argues “Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite were right; sometimes you have to take a stand. They did it against the dangerous persecutions of Senator Joe McCarthy and in denouncing the pernicious official spin during the worst years of the Vietnam War.”
And with Trump, Ramos writes, the Republican nominee’s stands mean “we have to take a stand.”