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President's Televised Address

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kevtronics said:
The same as some networks did for a while after Trump's "inject bleach" comment: stop carrying his rambling, weaving, lie-filled speeches/press conferences live, and only cover fact-checked highlights of them after the fact.
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I figured the speech in December was the last straw. The white house built it up as a major policy address on Venezuela, and it turned out to be a campaign speech. They're setting this one up to be a victory speech on Iran. We'll see.

At one point the networks turned down Obama when he asked for TV time. We may be at that point.

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That Time Broadcast Networks Declined to Air President Obama's Primetime Immigration Speech in 2014

Washington Post reported at the time that many networks were wary of interrupting popular shows like "The Big Bang Theory" and "Bones"
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AbrahamJSimpson said:
“My portfolio.”

I’m a hell of a lot more worried about the future for my kids, their kids, and people all over the world. His lies and the insider trading manipulation may make his cronies richer through manipulation, and maybe as a byproduct some other portfolios see a supposed benefit. But none of that matters one bit when we’re destroying our environment, starting illegal wars, gleefully enacting policies designed to kill people and making the lives of the marginalized worse.

This propaganda has no legitimate reason to be on network television, but they will dutifully slobber all over it. They’ll pretend it isn’t just another lie-filled rant with no tether to reality. Because at the major outlets, actual journalism is dead.
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True and also where do you look for "actual journalism" especially in ones we mentioned in past threads we mentioned at the major outlets "Could have their license" yanked by Chairman Carr anytime.
 
TheBigA said:
At one point the networks turned down Obama when he asked for TV time. We may be at that point.
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I wouldn’t wager one cent on that kind of spine being found. I’d love to be proven wrong, without question. But there is not a shred of evidence that the networks will treat this regime the way they did Obama when we was going to use an address as a selling point for his agenda.

Not only will they carry his incoherent rambling, they’ll pretend it wasn’t the usual unhinged lunacy.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
“My portfolio.”

I’m a hell of a lot more worried about the future for my kids, their kids, and people all over the world. His lies and the insider trading manipulation may make his cronies richer through manipulation, and maybe as a byproduct some other portfolios see a supposed benefit. But none of that matters one bit when we’re destroying our environment, starting illegal wars, gleefully enacting policies designed to kill people and making the lives of the marginalized worse.

This propaganda has no legitimate reason to be on network television, but they will dutifully slobber all over it. They’ll pretend it isn’t just another lie-filled rant with no tether to reality. Because at the major outlets, actual journalism is dead.
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stateline.org

How Trump’s expansion of federal power threatens states’ authority • Stateline

As the United States of America marks its 250th anniversary this year, the relationship between the states and the federal government is approaching a breaking point.
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In bid for voter data, Trump’s DOJ lays groundwork to undermine confidence in midterms • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to potentially cast doubt on the results.
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DOJ confirms voter data sharing with Homeland Security, but denies building national list • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed in court Thursday that it is sharing sensitive voter data with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizen voters. But a DOJ lawyer denied the department is building a national voter database.
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Theres one that is investigating the White House but in this one is how those issues surrounding Trump extend to state legislatures, governors and state laws around the country but thats a rare case given that States Newsroom is not inside the White House press pool as other media outlets.
 
kevtronics said:
The same as some networks did for a while after Trump's "inject bleach" comment: stop carrying his rambling, weaving, lie-filled speeches/press conferences live, and only cover fact-checked highlights of them after the fact.
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Not to mention those were timed to pre-empt parts of stations' late afternoon/evening newscasts in the east. Sorry Mr. President, revenue means more than you.
 
Tonight's situation is very similar to his speech in December. CBS will be in the middle of a 2-hour Survivor. They have scheduled it now as a two-parter that will have a 20 minute break at 9PM. Fox is also doing a 2-hour Masked Singer. My channel guide doesn't have the president's speech scheduled at all on Fox, NBC, or PBS. But that may change. I also checked NBC.com, and they don't show a speech at 9PM.

Because this is happening in prime time, I really don't expect any of the networks to spend much time in post speech wrap-up. Of course 9PM ET is 6PM PT, so the speech will air during the local news on the west coast.
 
There's also a pretty significant manned space flight also today that *could* (please, please) be delayed a bit...for science, of course!
 
Guarantee that after what happened at SCOTUS when they embarrassed him about birthright citizenship (and they had every reason to do so) the viewers will walk out on his so called prime time speech tonight just like DJT did during the court hearing.
 
TheBigA said:
My channel guide doesn't have the president's speech scheduled at all on Fox, NBC, or PBS.
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I did read both NBC and Fox will televise address and my channel guide shows PBS will broadcast. NBC will delay start of 9 PM and 10 PM shows by 20 minutes. Fox will pause Masked Singer as CBS is doing with Survivor. Hopefully he can keep speech to 20 minutes!
 
I deliberately avoided it (it was mercifully short, thank goodness) and opted instead for what I call the "soundbite" version (essentially, a trimmed down summary), and I heard a few minutes of a KCBS analyst (I think it was some SF Chronicle person, but not Phil Matier), and basically, what stuck in my mind was that, while Trump boasted (as he does) about successfully completing all war objectives and about how the US is on target for pulling out within the next two weeks, the analyst points out that Trump didn't provide any proof or explanation: how has the US accomplished its objectives, what are those objectives, and, perhaps most importantly, why, exactly, did he get us into this war in the first place?

There's a bunch more packed into that 24 minute screed, of course. This is only my initial impression of it.

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cc333 said:
I deliberately avoided it (it was mercifully short, thank goodness) and opted instead for what I call the "soundbite" version (essentially, a trimmed down summary), and I heard a few minutes of a KCBS analyst (I think it was some SF Chronicle person, but not Phil Matier), and basically, what stuck in my mind was that, while Trump boasted (as he does) about successfully completing all war objectives and about how the US is on target for pulling out within the next two weeks, the analyst points out that Trump didn't provide any proof or explanation: how has the US accomplished its objectives, what are those objectives, and, perhaps most importantly, why, exactly, did he get us into this war in the first place?

There's a bunch more packed into that 24 minute screed, of course. This is only my initial impression of it.

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Can't get slammed for not meeting your war objectives if you don't have any war objectives! The whole thing is just baffling. The world has stopped believing a word he says - the oil price now goes up every time he says the end is "two or three weeks away". Nobody can figure out why on earth he decided to bomb a country and ruin everyone's summer by setting off a huge wave of inflation. Politically, it's a baffling decision - start an unnecessary war, set off an inflation spike, and not be able to really tell anyone why. The least these people owe us is a clear, frank, and full explanation of the decisions they have taken, and we can't even have that.

Then he turns around and says "countries that want the strait reopened, reopen it yourself, get your own oil". Whose actions caused the strait to get closed down in the first place? Iran is much closer to those of us in Europe (to make this relevant to radio, it's close enough that we hear it on AM skywave at night in the UK!) and posed no threat, let alone a threat to American soil. The only silver lining is that this shitshow will probably be the last time we let the price of oil from god awful countries dictate much at all, the green transition is well underway and will accelerate.

On TV yesterday, two Americas were on display - the mean, nasty ramblings of violent, unhinged politicians; and a stunning display of what happens when America and the world work together to make something as spectacular as the moon mission happen. I would rather see more of the America represented by pleasant, calm, curious NASA astronauts and the international efforts in space than the senile, geriatric old men in power trying to blow up the world before they go.
 
Personally, I'm tired of buying canned food. The Brexit cupboard became the Covid cupboard and is now the Trump cupboard. Can't we just get on with our lives?
 
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