Media Matters: How mainstream media failed when covering Trump’s State of the Union speech In 2020, many journalists are still desperately trying to normalize Trump's presidency
Media Matters: News networks ridiculed for airing Trump’s post-impeachment rant in its entirety
To be clear, this is not just cable news - this mess has pre-empted programming on national broadcasts networks:
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Trump's "bullshit" went out on all four broadcast nets, but three of them censored it in the closed captioning
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I had been under the impression that one of the major "things we learned in 2016 and won't repeat in 2020" was giving Trump live coverage of all of his rallies and yet here's Trump, on your tv, in the heart of the 2020 race, just talking and talking and talking
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Cable news has learned so much since 2016 that all three networks are airing the entire Trump rally in the White House right now.
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The cable networks are giving Trump an in-kind contribution when they broadcast these hyper-partisan "presidential addresses"
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As I’ve said, every news org is political and conveys its politics through what it covers and what it does not cover.
It is a political choice to air Trump’s words verbatim without context, and the choice to air those words in full is even more explicitly political.
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At what point is this not worthy of live coverage. I get the fact he might make news so you need to stay on him, he is the President I'm told. But this is an embarrassment to our country and is not helping Trump with non base voters.
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Why did every network feel compelled to broadcast live every minute of Trump’s victory rally in the White House? Very little was newsworthy and certainly not the laundry list of thank yous to those who supported him. #TrumpImpeachment
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President gloats, rambles, promises revenge for 25 minutes on all four major broadcast networks, preempting regular programming.
(Congrats, ABC, NBC, CBS & Fox - the President just said "bullshit" live on your networks. So much for broadcast standards.)
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It’s truly remarkable what Trump is doing. A bit toned down from his typical political rallies, he’s captured all major news channels to broadcast him airing his grievances. Think of it as a White House rally of sorts.
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Cannot fathom why the three major cable-news networks are still on with live coverage of this post-acquittal ball-spiking.
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Much of Trump's dominance of the news cycle is a result of news networks' willingness to air many of his stump speeches and press conferences live, unedited, and without commercial breaks. Veteran campaign reporter Walter Shapiro called the airing of Trump's speeches by networks unprecedented, adding “No one has ever gotten to have all of their campaign speeches broadcast unedited.”His speeches make for good television -- he calls Ted Cruz a "pussy," imitates Marco Rubio, botches Bible verses, pulls bizarre supporters on stage. But beyond sheer entertainment value, there's rarely a good journalistic reason to give Trump's speeches so much attention.News networks' inability to look away from the Trump circus means Trump can rely on the media to deliver his campaign messages, unfiltered, to millions more voters than would otherwise hear them. And that special treatment means Trump's opponents in both parties are forced to compete in a news environment that gives Trump millions of dollars in free advertising and exposure.
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