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Do you hear what I hear?

Over the course of her vast and storied career, when broadcaster and journalist Barbara Walters (1929-2022) asked pointed questions to world leaders, did opinion writers of her day characterize her questions as \u201caccusatory?\u201d Perhaps they did and I was too young to be paying close attention at the time. No doubt Ms. Walters, unquestionably a pioneer and trailblazer in the field of journalism, faced her share of criticism as a woman asking tough questions to high-profile and prominent men in politics, sports and entertainment. Had she been a woman of color perhaps the criticisms of her may have been even more fierce.

The tone of ABC News\u2019 Rachel Scott\u2019s opening question to former President Donald Trump at Wednesday\u2019s National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in Chicago was not (to my ear!) \u201caccusatory,\u201d as described by Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal \u201cDeclarations\u201d opinion piece, \u201cThe Fight of Trump\u2019s Political Life: Kamala Harris has the wind at her back. Her strengths became clearer in the last two weeks.\u201d (August 1, 2024. 5:52 p.m. ET) In case you missed it, here is Rachel Scott\u2019s opening question in its entirety.

\u201cHi, Mr. Trump. Rachel Scott. ABC News. Mr. President, we so appreciate you giving us an hour of your time. I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals \u2014 from Nikki Haley to President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like \u2018animal\u2019 and \u2018rabid\u2019 to describe Black district attorneys. You\u2019ve attacked Black journalists, calling them a \u2018loser,\u2019 saying that the questions that they ask are \u2018stupid\u2019 and \u2018racist.\u2019 You\u2019ve had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So, my question sir, now that you are asking Black supporters to vote for you: Why should Black voters trust you after you have used language like that?\u201d

Rachel Scott\u2019s well-phrased opening question was factual and the spirit in which she delivered it was professional and straightforward. That\u2019s what I heard.

It is reported that some inside the NABJ objected to giving Mr. Trump this time and space, arguing to deplatform him, even as the organization has a history of inviting presidential candidates to speak at its annual conference. Given Mr. Trump\u2019s propensity for lying, his critics within the NABJ did not want to use the organization\u2019s platform and risk its reputation by offering an opportunity to perpetuate the former president\u2019s lack of truth-telling; others argued that journalists should be allowed to be journalists: to question those in power on behalf of the American people in general and the cultural constituencies they serve in particular. I completely understand the former and wholeheartedly support the latter: by platforming controversial leaders, you shine the full heat of the spotlight on their foolishness and their flaws, on their brilliance and their buffoonery.

We all remember Mr. Trump\u2019s Birtherism 1.0, initially featuring former President Barack Obama and more recently Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley; and we are all (at least I am!) fully prepared for Birtherism 2.0, featuring the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris, which has already in fact begun, and continued on that NABJ stage.

In a Politico piece (\u201cTrump tells Dem congresswomen: Go back where you came from.\u201d Posted 7\/14\/19 at 9:15 a.m. EDT), writers Bianca Quilantan and David Cohen report Mr. Trump as saying: \u201cSo interesting to see \u2018Progressive\u2019 Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run\u2026Why don\u2019t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,\u201d he added. \u201cThen come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can\u2019t leave fast enough. I\u2019m sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!\u201d

The former president is widely thought to have been referencing Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), all of whom were born in the United States, with the exception of Omar, who immigrated to the U.S. as a Somalian refugee when she was a young child in the early-1990s.

Referring to Georgia\u2019s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Mr. Trump called her a \u201crabid partisan,\u201d as reported by PBS (\u201cTrump\u2019s attacks on prosecutors echo long history of racist language\u201d posted on\u00a0PBS.org<\/a>\u00a0under Politics on Aug 22, 2023 11:20 AM EDT). In that same article, Mr. Trump is quoted as describing Manhattan Attorney Alvin Bragg as a \u201cSoros backed animal,\u201d referring to the Hungarian-American billionaire businessman, investor and philanthropist.

Here\u2019s a headline from The New York Times from a few years back: \u201cTrump\u2019s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist: The former president\u2019s table for four at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday also included Kanye West, whose antisemitic statements have made him an entertainment-industry outcast\u201d by Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer (November 25, 2022).

First convened on Friday, December 12, 1975, at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., among the NABJ\u2019s founding members were Maureen Bunyan (WTOP-TV\/Washington, D.C.), Pluria Marshall (freelancer), Max Robinson (WTOP-TV\/Washington, D.C.), and DeWayne Wickham (Baltimore Sun) \u2014 all of whom intersected with my own pursuit and practice of journalism as a student in the mid-80s and as a young public relations and communications professional in the early 90s. These pioneers, among the 40+ other founding members, and all of the broadcast, print and online media professionals (and digital creators) that have followed in their footsteps over the past 40+ years since, have each and have all contributed to creating an ethical standard, a fine polish and a disciplined professionalism that was on full display by journalists Rachel Scott (ABC News), Kadia Goba (Semafor) and Harris Faulkner (Fox News) on that NABJ stage. Salute \u2013 to each of those fierce sisters who met that moment in fine form.

A curious thing what the ear hears. Where some hear anger and accusation in the questions of journalists, particularly journalists of color, others hear facts and curiosity, the latter comprising the deep roots of proper journalism.

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