Posted on 12/16/2017 4:12:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Meryl Streep Admits She Reads Drudge, Watches Fox News
By Paula Bolyard December 15, 2017
n an interview to promote her new movie, "The Post," Hollywood legend Meryl Streep discussed her media habits and admitted she reads Drudge and Fox News, along with The New York Times.
Streep, along with director Steven Spielberg and several of the film's collaborators, discussed the new movie that tells the story of the Pentagon Papers through the eyes of Washington Post reporter Katharine Graham. Never shy about her left-leaning politics, Streep discussed a wide variety of topics with The Hollywood Reporter, including the recent spate of sexual harassment claims ("We are on the way to something better") and her media viewing habits. Asked if she trusts the media today, Streep answered, "Broadly? All of it? No." (No thinking person would disagree with her on that.)
Spielberg jumped in: "I'm not going to go on record saying which media I trust." (Don't worry Steven, we know.) He added, "I'm just saying, obviously, there is media that you would imagine I would not trust. Obviously, there is media you would take for granted I trust, and you would be right." (Hint: It's not Fox News.)
"You trust but verify," Streep added, "we get betrayed." She recalled a time she had been burned by the media. "It involves people who are not at the table," she said, declining to reveal the specifics.
But then she revealed some surprising facts about her rather eclectic media viewing habits. "In my political reading, I read The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian. I check in on Politico, Axios and Drudge." She also goes to Fox often, "to see the manipulation."
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Doubtful. It takes a strong constitution to listen to the other side simply because were conditioned to find it revolting. How many conservatives do you know that could actually watch a complete Rachel Maddow show?
LOL
Give her this: Not a lot of folks on the left read or watch anything outside the echo chamber. Heck, I visit leftist sites all the time.
Gotta know what they’re saying.
Watches Fox...reads Drudge....gives child rapist Roman Polanski a standing ovation!
Streep is a hypocrite.
The woman can flat out fricking ACT.
So, shes not ignorant. Shes evil. She consumes a wide enough variety of media to know that the propaganda she promotes is a pack of lies.
It ain’t like Fox News is Conservative, for heavens’ sake.
That and imho an opportunity to attempting at showing how oh so vital the reporters *spit* are with a free press. No freakin way they would pass a chance to praise the media in an effort to give them back some creed in the age of Trump. I will never watch another movie with this hypothetical smug Streep and shame on Steven
And still she knows little.
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks Drudge has become borderline anti Trump.
I don't believe it for a second. She's making a movie, she knows the public is pissed at the hypocrisy and nitwitery of Hollywood (including her regarding Weinstein) and is trying to make herself look even-handed and open-minded. Thanks Sub-Driver.
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