Everyone celebrated @kwelkernbc even though she got worked by the Trump campaign and asked about Hunter Biden, a story manufactured in bad faith, and this morning said Biden "confused his opponent's name" by saying "George" even though he was talking to George Lopez
https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/1320812444114038784
Our news media would be so much better if journalists admitted their errors, not just slip-ups but real systemic errors. You can be a near-perfect moderator and still fuck up. You can challenge a Trump lie one day and help him smear Biden another day. It's not binary.
Even if Biden *had* confused Trump's name, it's weird to think that counts as news. It's like a 2008 gaffe meter still goes off in journalists' heads. Except here it was obviously an effort to answer the question "we say Trump did something bad, did Biden do something bad also?"
If everyone loves Welker so much — and there are lots of reasons to, not just for her debate moderating but for the sharp questions she does ask Trump on the fly — we should also hold her to a higher standard of honesty so that it trickles down to the rest of the press as a model
What a fucking joke this is. You got manipulated by a bad-faith campaign that has been trying to manipulate the press in bad faith since its inception. The right thing to do is apologize and say you took the Trump campaign's word at face value. Admit it.
https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/1320826393173782528?s=20
The media's coverage of campaigns relies heavily on those campaigns providing oppo, or sending clips of their opponent to reporters hoping they'll use them. That's obviously what happened here. NBC took the bait, didn't see it was George Lopez, got played. Just admit it.
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