Just one, just one broadcast outlet doing what they did with regard to the breathless daily chronicles of every little thing about Biden would be a shocker.
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No, you're point of view is wrong. The only reason we are stuck with Trump is because the media gave him the attention he so obviously craves - in the name of "objectivity." There is no such thing as bad publicity. Suing gets him even more attention. Don't report on him or the outrageous things he says. Don't give him air time. Report on what the mediaocracy now pretty much ignores - the affects of what he has done.
The problem with a populist "Cult of Personality" candidate is that he knows how to play people. You have a valid point, but the media could not just ignore the Republican presidential candidate. If the GOP like McConnell had any backbone or integrity, the 2nd impeachment would have disqualified Trump from returning to office. We wouldn't be stuck yet again. You also forget about Social Media sites that are propaganda chambers. People believe only what they want.
I'm not sure how there things are at odds. There is legitimate and plentiful criticism of how the media handled the campaign coverage and the false equivalencies in the name of "balance." (That they weren't equivalent in any way shape or form is certainly a part of that criticism.) It is also true that the banning of the AP from official White House briefings and travel is petty, dictatorial BS from someone who will lash out at anyone who disobeys. Those don't cancel each other out. The media, including broadcast, can be both open to valid criticism and being on the receiving end of tyrannical nonsense at the same time.
If there are media outlets doing what AP is doing then it's likely non-profit media outlets doing that like reporters without borders.
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The AP is non-profit.
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This is a political discussion now, since you have brought up the weaponizing of the judicial system. To a significant majority of Americans, all the charges against Trump are contrived and should never have been filed; note that they all were brought up in areas and states with enormous Democrat plurality.The NAB now weighs in on news coverage:
LeGeyt: Broadcasters Must Be Able To Report News Without ‘Risk Of Government Retribution.’
The scrutiny that broadcasters are under in Washington is unlike any other in recent times, with license challenges to stations that have aired content President Trump has criticized, and radiowww.insideradio.com
When you have a convicted criminal in charge of the law, the laws no longer matter. The wolf is running the henhouse.
Jeez, that "See It Now" thing again. A program hardly anybody watched but CBS' PR department (and lately George Clooney) have been making hay out it for years. Murrow and Friendly waited until public opinion had largely turned against McCarthy. Nobody in the Republican Party wanted to stand up to McCarthy (just like they don't want to stand up to Trump today). Finally, McCarthy went after the Army and that was more than Ike was willing to take. He had relationships with Paley and Murrow from the war and asked them to do something. But if anybody brought down McCarthy, it was Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy Hearings ("Have you no sense of decency, sir.").It's all part of the same story. This is how you do it:
Edward R. Murrow aired historic Joseph McCarthy report 63 years ago today
Legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow aired piece of television history 63 years ago
Extremely obtuse opinion. Trump could rape and kill a 7 year old child at this point with no consequences. He is above the law and can literally do anything.
Murrow didn't do much of anything. It took the show's director to figure out how to do what can be done and get people to watch it and pay attention to it.
There is way too much noise now for that to work today. Everyone gets news from Facebook really and that is so siloed that real news escapes.
