Network’s own reporters criticise decision to give ex-president platform in ‘town hall’ format that allowed him to spout freely
skeptical members of his own staff at the network’s daily news conference the following morning.As it happens, quite a lot of people said that not only didfail to get answers but it was repeating the terrible mistake of 2016 when it treated Trump as an entertainer not a hostile politician by giving him hours of airtime to spout freely because he was good for ratings, and therefore profits.
Which raises the question of how television, in particular, should cover Trump as the next election comes into focus. It’s a question even Fox News, which has fallen out with the former president, is now grappling with. Bob Schieffer, the former CBS news anchor who moderated presidential debates, took much the same position.But many Americans wondered if it had to be in front of a supportive, jeering audience that evidently included a fair number of his “Make America great again” supporters with little to restrain his torrent of lies, distractions and evasions.of the programme that the mistake was to do it live: “Proving again: Live lying works.
Bacon is not alone in worrying that Trump will continue to exploit CNN’s desperation to win back at least some of the Maga voters it lost when the former president led chants of “CNN sucks” at his rallies.
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