SANTA BARBARA, CA –\u00a0 In a news environment characterized by \u201cinformation overload,\u201d journalists need to slow things down a bit and in so doing help people become smarter, says CNN\u2019s Senior Media Correspondent, Brian Stelter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost as if we need like, a little bit of a slow news movement because everything\u2019s happening so fast and there is so much access to so much information,\u201d Stelter says in this Beet.TV interview at AT&T\u2019s Xandr Relevance Conference<\/a> in which he discusses President Trump\u2019s \u201cfake news\u201d claims and what journalists should be doing in response.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now there\u2019s so much confusion and chaos, and maybe even most news consumers are hungry for people to hit the brakes a little bit, for journalists to hit the brakes a little bit and tell them what really matters, what really is going on and why it really affects them,\u201d Stelter says.<\/p>\n

At The Relevance Conference, Stelter<\/a> moderated a panel discussion titled Breaking The News: Staying Relevant In A Real-Time News Cycle. It featured Jesse Angelo of the New York Post, PBS NewsHour\u2019s Sara Just, Allison Rockey of VOX and Bari Weiss from The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the higher quality news organizations, or the ones that seek to be higher quality, are the ones that are trying to help folks digest the news and process the news and get past the headlines of what\u2019s happening,\u201d says Stelter.<\/p>\n

Part of the panel discussion focused on the value that news organizations should be bringing to the table. \u201cThe value is to make people smarter. Not to make people angrier or make people confused. But to make people smarter about what\u2019s happening. I do think we see all across the news media examples of efforts to do that,\u201d Stelter adds.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday morning opening fireside chat on the main stage with CNN’s Poppy Harlow moderating, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson forcefully addressed the company’s\u00a0 commitment to a free press and\u00a0 its essential role in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever you think about CNN, whatever you think about CNN\u2019s rivals, we need a strong and healthy and diverse news media in the United States and we need owners who respect that. And AT&T has been saying all the right things and doing all the right things since the acquisition happened,\u201d says Stelter.<\/p>\n

Asked about the impact on the public of President Trump\u2019s frequent claims of \u201cfake news,\u201d he calls such behavior \u201ca slow-acting poison that is gradually trickling through the American body and causing an infection, causing a disease, causing a sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that a subset of the U.S. public actually believes what President Trump is saying, \u201cMy big concern is let\u2019s take that thirty or forty percent of the country that seems to believe him or agree with his attacks. What can we do to win back folks\u2019 trust? To show them that the news is real and the journalists are trying their best to get it right. That\u2019s a challenge and that\u2019s a mission for these newsrooms, for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

This video is part of a series leading up to, and covering the Xandr Relevance Conference in Santa Barbara. For more videos from the series, please visit this page<\/a>.\u00a0 This Beet.TV program is sponsored by Xandr, a unit of AT&T.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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