CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Columbia Journalism School Dean, New Yorker staff writer, and MSNBC talking head Jelani Cobb to the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to proclaim that only one of the two parties believes in democracy, imply Republicans want to stop black people from voting, and wonder why trust in journalism is so low.
Colbert started off okay, “Sixty-eight percent of Americans say that they have lost their confidence in newspapers, TV, or radio. The only thing they trust now is late night and I was wondering, how do you as a journalist yourself, and as the dean of the school, how do you think journalism needs to get that or can get that trust back from the American public?”
Cobb replied by recalling, “You know, it’s not something that, you know, can be inherited. It’s something that has to be earned every…
