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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The news media has been painfully sluggish to adapt to Trump. 20 days before an election that he has promised to overturn and disrupt with white supremacist militia “poll watchers,” an autocrat who only lies as he gasses his own people is given a network town hall at his request
Covering Trump the right way is not hard intellectually—it’s only difficult with the artificial shackles journalists place on themselves. They believe their job is to ask the leader of a white supremacist cult who has killed 220,000 people what he thinks about the news of the day Image
The goal of the interview is “get him to make news”—a crazy quote that belongs in a headline and is covered elsewhere. The goal is not to prove he doesn’t read his intelligence briefings or doesn’t know basic facts about covid. It’s to get Trump to want to come back for another
It’s easy to spit on NBC for this but don’t kid yourselves—every channel and outlet would say yes to Trump asking them for a town hall. Individual reporters and even some anchors may personally want Trump to lose, but news executives overwhelmingly want him to win—or never leave

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