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Former NBC Meet the Press<\/em> moderator Chuck Todd is slated for an award celebrating \u201chis role as one of the country\u2019s leading independent voices covering politics, democracy and public affairs\u201d mere days after he was exposed maintaining a cozy relationship with Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n

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Poynter, a fake fact-checking institute known for training and elevating corrupt corporate media, plans to honor the \u201cveteran political journalist\u201d with a ticketed salon event dedicated to celebrating The Chuck ToddCast<\/em> host\u2019s \u201cdecadeslong impact on political journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChuck Todd has always been one of the smartest voices in American journalism, from his sharp political analysis and interviews during his years at NBC, to now, reporting on his own terms on independent platforms,\u201d Poynter President Neil Brown said in the 2026 Poynter Make a Mark Leadership Award announcement. \u201cHe always gives the audience his best.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Fauci diary document dump from Sen. Rand Paul, Todd\u2019s \u201cdecadeslong impact on political journalism\u201d apparently includes advising the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director on how to navigate criticism from conservative media.<\/p>\n

Fauci admitted in his June 10, 2021 entry to seeking advice from Todd on \u201cwhether he thought that I should pull back from publicly defending myself against the slanderous attacks since that might call more attention to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fauci further wrote that Todd not only \u201ccompletely agreed\u201d with that proposition, but also warned the NIAID director that Fox News and its then-top performer Tucker Carlson would \u201cuse anything I say as the theme for their next show.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cChuck is really an excellent journalist and although he must maintain his objectivity and reporting it is very clear that he is really being a friend in understanding the difficult position that I am in,\u201d Fauci concluded.<\/p>\n

Before that, in March 2020, Fauci as one of several media panelists who expressed an interest in giving Fauci airtime because \u201che has a decades long history of giving the truth in a calming way to the public.\u201d From 2020 to 2022, Fauci appeared on Todd\u2019s NBC show at least 20 times.<\/p>\n

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Todd was not the only member of the propaganda press to receive a shoutout from Fauci. Yet, as The Federalist\u2019s Brianna Lyman noted, Todd\u2019s Fauci-focused tongue bath \u201ctacitly show[ed] Todd and NBC News had no desire to get to the bottom of the Covid cover-up, or possible lab leak, or shutdowns pushed by Fauci that caused innumerable damages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Todd\u2019s history as a corporate media propagandist is not limited to his alarmism during the Covid years. During his time on NBC\u2019s Meet The Press<\/em>, Todd doubled down on the Russia collusion hoax even after the Steele dossier was debunked, deceptively edited his show to lie about Trump-era Attorney General Bill Barr, and pretended someone has to be a scientist to know boys are boys and girls are girls. In addition to public embarrassments like tweeting a crotch photo, Todd also dubbed believing in God-given rights \u201cfundamentalist\u201d and had a meltdown when NBC sought to recruit former RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a Republican contributor.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me deal with the elephant in the room,\u201d Todd said on-air to his colleague Kristen Welker. \u201cI think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Biden family corruption took center stage, Todd\u00a0argued\u00a0against investigating it and even refused\u00a0to air comments President Donald Trump made about the Biden family business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going further than we\u2019ve ever gone before to say, we aren\u2019t going to play the sound. We aren\u2019t going to repeat the president\u2019s vicious attacks on Hunter Biden. The president of the United States stood in front of a crowd of supporters and character-assassinated [Hunter],\u201d Todd said. \u201cWe can\u2019t in good conscience amplify those attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even after he left his 18-year career at NBC, Todd blamed Trump for almost being assassinated again. He later pretended to decry the violence that follows Trump despite playing a clear role in stoking it.<\/p>\n

Todd even had the audacity to pin fault for Americans\u2019 plummeting trust in corporate media on Fox News instead of using it to spur on industry-wide self-reflection.<\/p>\n

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