Atlantic Editor to Journalists: Don't spin 'out of control' covering Trump

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, says journalists covering President Trump should not spin "out of control.” "The danger is that [journalists] spin ourselves out of control out of anxiety or fear or whatever you want to call it," Goldberg said. "But all that this moment requires is a doubling down of our basic commitment to a fact-based discourse."

The comments came before the White House barred several news outlets from a question-and-answer briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer on Feb 24. "We're not supposed to be the resistance. We're not supposed to be the opposition," said Goldberg. "We're supposed to tell the truth about what's happening in any given moment and in any given place. And let's just do that."