Good for them, and this week they have shifted to have press conferences about 6 PM (eastern time), last week was about Noon (eastern time) or earlier what is next Breakfast with Donald Trump for most of the country?
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KUOW Drops Trump Press Briefings Due To Misinformation
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Good for them, and this week they have shifted to have press conferences about 6 PM (eastern time), last week was about Noon (eastern time) or earlier what is next Breakfast with Donald Trump for most of the country?
Trump figures he can pre-empt the "fake" nightly news?
Anything other than "Donald Trump is a wonderful Dear Leader" is liberal
Using that approach, you're lying right now. Why should I believe what you're saying?
In the meantime, you dodged my very simple question.
Well if thats the case it backfired big time because in some parts of the country the mayors and governors have their "Non Essential Business shutdown order" and "Sheltet in Place orders" press conferences at the same time the White House is doing their Press Conference/Trump COVID-19 Campaign rally from the Oval Office.
Minnesota was just one of the states that Pre-Empted the White House edition for the Governors office "Shelter in Place orders" Yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vLtVulCCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OT5PaxGKvU
When Sanders stopped doing press briefings last year, people in the campaign disagreed. They said it was good for the campaign to use the briefing room as a location for political speeches. Having that backdrop could be very effective. They were trying to figure out a way to do it. The crisis gave them an opportunity.
You should take anything I say with a grain of salt because I am likely bias. I take anything you, and in this case, KUOW, say with the same approach.
My only question is why shouldn't we aim high? Why not try to be truthful, why not attempt to be fair, why not try to be intelligent, rather than just accept that everything is corrupt and biased? Just because everyone lies is no excuse to accept it from people who are supposed to be leaders.
That's like justifying drug use by saying everyone else does something to get high. Some people drink, some people do crack. How can one raise kids that way? Shouldn't we try to give a good example to kids?
Well, I will concede that your aim is noble and I cannot argue with it. Perhaps we will get there one day but we are not there yet.
The Networks were covering the briefings in full until they were moved later in the day, the networks have been cutting away at 6:30 ET to air the evening news, the newscast have seen a uptick in the ratings and they want to take advantage of that, otherwise if the networks aired the briefings after 6:30 it would be consider special coverage and wouldn't count for weekly and monthly ratings total and they would have to redo the feeds for later time zones.
KUOW: "taking the live feed for daily updates from Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx and the CDC just isn't our audience" is heck of a take from station leaders.
This starts with the fact that every person sees the scene... any scene... differently due to their age, education, life experience and, yes, race and ethnicity.
When I lived in Ecuador and owned stations there, one of the favorite activities of the director of our news and talk station was to look at the international media reports on local events that had recently occurred and which we had covered.
In one case, we looked at everything from Time magazine to several European news magazines and a couple of US newspapers like the Miami Herald on the takeover of the government by the military. No two stories were alike. Time was the worst, making us wonder if they had either mislabeled the country in a story or whether the reporter actually had ever been in Ecuador. The best was Newsweek, which had a regional reporter who was based in Quito and who often consulted with our news director. But all the others were way off the mark, particularly in describing the reasons and causes for the coup d'etat; it was obvious that the reporters had used their political orientation to describe the existing conditions and the spirit of the military leaders who took over.
If you have a friend who is in the police or FBI, ask them about how different witnesses "see" very different things and how a trained investigator knows how to ask follow-up questions based on the type of witness they are interviewing. An example: a young person will think that a 2016 car is "old" while a 70-year-old will think that only a car from the 90's or before is "old".
In the current situation, I'd look at Trump for what he is: a builder and speculator who sees now what he envisions the future to be (which he does incessantly). In contrast, if you look at Bernie Sanders, he will have a different lens that sees nearly everything in an open capital-driven society as wrong, and he'll blame the system for the problem (which he has already done).
So as we read reports and hear politicians talk, we have to realize what their value set and philosophy are. In most cases, they are not lying; they are simply seeing what their life experience has taught them.
Where did they say that?
They did not say that directly. However, by not running the conferences, they are effectively doing the same. Trump isn't the only one talking at these press conferences. Doctors and other professionals are giving important information. It's akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The way to handle that properly is to remove the baby from the tub before dumping out the water. All of the important information is being run in KUOW programming. Nothing is being missed. The president is getting a lot of coverage and a lot of airplay. You must admit the other people on the podium don't get much time to speak. They stand there like the proverbial "potted palms.'
What KUOW said in their press release is they are careful not to pre-emp regular local programming. The national briefing was pre-empting a local talk show on KUOW. The local show likely has more pertinent information for people living in Seattle than a national briefing.
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This is drifting into the same stomach-turning left/right territory that every other damn story about this pandemic has already drifted. Arrrrghhhh.
I was going thru the dial today on on 97.3 KIRO Dori Monson called KUOW dumb for their actions.
I asked this earlier: Is KIRO running the briefings live? It's easy to call someone else dumb.
Dori is on the air when the briefings are taking place. KUOW doesn't want to pre-empt their local show that competes with Dori.
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It's fun to get outraged about things.
But after Tuesday, KUOW's local decision didn't matter so much - or really, at all, despite all the noise. Turns out other NPR member stations also weren't thrilled that the network had made the unilateral decision to preempt All Things Considered for hosted long-form coverage of the briefings.
By Wednesday, NPR had decided to keep ATC running uninterrupted, while providing unanchored raw feeds of the briefings on its Breaking News Channel for any members who did want to switch over and carry the briefings. At my station, we've been providing that briefing feed as a stream available from our website and social media channels.
I've been flipping around on the TV while filling in for our local ATC host. The "big 3" TV network affiliates in town also haven't been carrying the briefings in full. They're in local news during that time (the "5" or "5:30" scheduled briefings have actually started anywhere from 5:40 to 6:08), and one or two have carried some of them but then gone back to local, while a third apparently hasn't carried them at all.
But after Tuesday, KUOW's local decision didn't matter so much - or really, at all, despite all the noise. Turns out other NPR member stations also weren't thrilled that the network had made the unilateral decision to preempt All Things Considered for hosted long-form coverage of the briefings.
By Wednesday, NPR had decided to keep ATC running uninterrupted, while providing unanchored raw feeds of the briefings on its Breaking News Channel for any members who did want to switch over and carry the briefings. At my station, we've been providing that briefing feed as a stream available from our website and social media channels.
I've been flipping around on the TV while filling in for our local ATC host. The "big 3" TV network affiliates in town also haven't been carrying the briefings in full. They're in local news during that time (the "5" or "5:30" scheduled briefings have actually started anywhere from 5:40 to 6:08), and one or two have carried some of them but then gone back to local, while a third apparently hasn't carried them at all.
There are probably way more Public Radio Stations that have done the same thing that KUOW did but they simply pre-empt the President because the mayor or governor had their Shelter in place announcement at the same time the president is speaking.
According to Scott Fybush, a lot of east coast stations stopped running the briefing once All Things Considered resumed on Wednesday.
Any station that carries the live eastern feed of ATC, and that includes KNKX in Seattle, has likely returned to ATC at that hour.
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