Sure, what the president says is newsworthy -- but 75 minutes of live coverage while he bloviates, insults and makes false statements? No way. My column herehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/live-coverage-of-a-pennsylvania-rally-was-another-free-ad-for-trumps-favorite-candidate-himself/2018/03/13/e27e46de-26b4-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html?utm_term=.a98bca93bc34 …
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I retired in 2007 & cable news is on when I'm home. I know how insanely different CNN & MSNBC coverage of Trump WH has been from Bush & Obama. It's hurting the country & no one in TV news cares.
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Many people in TV care about what they do... myself included... Trump is a different president than B or O... so there are definitely differences in the coverage!
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Trump’s speeches are not presidential. You cover them because it’s infotainment. Same reason you have Kellyanne Conway on as a Reliable Source. You know what you’re doing, and you don’t care.
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He's the president. I think your issue is with that fact, not with the news media. Presidential events are news
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It's not a Presidential event, it's a partisan political performance, like street theater, your network covers it for the outrage and ratings. It has damaged our country.
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It would be interesting to list all of the Presidential speeches of Bush, Obama and Trump and list the amount of live time and commentary that CNN has given to them. An interesting pattern might appear. Let's see if CNN makes that info easy to access...
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why do you guys do this? we note that covering trump gavel to gavel is excessive and in response cnn/nytimers say "what, you dont want us to cover him?" its dishonest.
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I haven't said "what, you don't want us to cover him?" so take your frustration out on others...
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Fair enough, but please explain the reason for this change in broadcast choices. His speeches & the WH press briefings are obviously covered differently than previous administrations, the question is why?
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Weirdly they cover him exactly the way they did when he was a candidate, then say "We have to. He's the president."
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You're not "covering" something by simply running it live. You "cover" something by extracting the important elements + quotes, providing context for his/her comments and some assessments of their validity. Basic journalism.
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That may be what you do on your Sunday show, but that isn't what CNN and MSNBC do the rest of the week and is kind of the problem that we're talking about. I mean, y'all cut to a photo op of Don Jr eating ice cream where he insulted dems and lied unchallenged. How is that news?
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So you think if he decided to hold a rally 5 nights a week during primetime, that CNN should just air it live, uninterrupted every single time? And during campaign season?
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Exactly. The president speaking on presidential matters may be newsworthy, but we don’t need a live feed of his campaign rallies. It may be fair to report he was at a rally, or spoke at a rally. Other than that, I can see challenging something he said, but in post.
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Campaign speeches are propaganda and should be covered by excerpting the key quotes and presenting them with fact checking. Should apply to all presidents but especially to this pro grifter.
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When he's campaigning for a candidate, doesn't that behoove you to give equal time to the opponent? When he campaigns for himself, would you give equal time to his eventual Democratic challenger?
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Margaret's correct. You can report newsworthy parts. Airing entire speeches makes it seem
@CNN just about ratings/profits. Your job not to do ``good TV.'' It's to provide viewers w/news they need to be informed citizens. So many stories underreported b/c of wall-to-wall Trump.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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If you have no time (or will) to illuminate--then it is state tv--unabated.
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INTEGRITY/exposure/CONTEXT/ & actionable information are all that will save us from existential threat. It is not journalism if TRAITOR (suspect) is given free reign to use PSY-Ops!
#BananaRepublicans desperate times/desperate measures
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I think presidential speeches are news events that should be shown live, but I understand the criticism and I wrestle with it myself.