I was about to write this but Julie Roginsky did it first and better: "Any television network with an ounce of integrity should refuse to carry Trump’s address live." They should delay and then fact-check the hell out of every word, providing the context that would be journalism. https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias-most-important-responsibility
@jeffjarvis When they are all already in the pocket of the tinpot dictator, or in fear of their license being pulled, I’m betting none will do this.
@jeffjarvis IMHO, that's what should have happened in the first term when it became obvious so very early on that basically everything he was saying was made up on the spot while the remainder was alternative facts.
@jeffjarvis Why bother factchecking? It's going to be nothing but lies and BS anyway. Sameo sameo. Ho hum.
@jeffjarvis I really hope they do, but I'm not holding my breath. Most media outlets are owned by large corporations. Large corporations love Trump. They pay their journalists precisely to water things down.
They can do better: live, with color commentary from a fact-checking team
@jeffjarvis I was trying to get ahead of it with art that should give even magas pause by tying Trump's 'win' in 2020 to the 30+ times he's 'won' in Iran (so far) as corporate media is gonna do anything for attention, and fuel prices affect magats directly and are raged enough to sulk at their daddy about it.
Feel free to reuse or more skillfully reconstruct. All I want is not to live in a fascist dictatorship.
The narcissistic lying thug should be dragged out of the White House, screaming and struggling…
@jeffjarvis Let’s be honest for a second . At this point everyone has already made up their minds on Donald Trump. You either think he’s a constant liar or the only one telling the truth.
no matter which networks chose to broadcast it or what , people already have their minds made up.
The broadcast and address isn’t important it’s what congress does in the wake of this that will matter.
And if it all does go down hill when a Democrat finally does have back the white house they can turn the republicans weapon against them …
@jeffjarvis Definitely not going to happen. US journalism is cowardly and flat-footed.
@jeffjarvis it's like a 14-yr old with an inferiority complex somehow became President of the U.S.
his galactic ego and miniature brain cannot process that he lost. that is completely impossible for him to accept. in his mind, he never loses. ever. it's always someone else's fault. every single time.
@jeffjarvis … just a thought… can we all contact or friends and neighbors right now and do a nationwide boycott of all television tonight when this is supposed to happen?
